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- English Word Kiln Definition A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
- English Word Kiln Definition A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
- English Word Kiln-dry Definition To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.
- English Word Kilnhole Definition The mouth or opening of an oven or kiln.
- English Word Kilo Definition An abbreviation of Kilogram.
- English Word Kilogram Definition Alt. of Kilogramme
- English Word Kilogramme Definition A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39¡ Fahrenheit.
- English Word Kilogrammeter Definition Alt. of Kilogrammetre
- English Word Kilogrammetre Definition A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris.
- English Word Kiloliter Definition Alt. of Kilolitre
- English Word Kilolitre Definition A measure of capacity equal to a cubic meter, or a thousand liters. It is equivalent to 35.315 cubic feet, and to 220.04 imperial gallons, or 264.18 American gallons of 321 cubic inches.
- English Word Kilometer Definition Alt. of Kilometre
- English Word Kilometre Definition A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 62137 of a mile.
- English Word Kilos Definition of Kilo
- English Word Kilostere Definition A cubic measure containing 1000 cubic meters, and equivalent to 35,315 cubic feet.
- English Word Kilowatt Definition One thousand watts.
- English Word Kilt Definition p. p. from Kill.
- English Word Kilt Definition A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg.
- English Word Kilt Definition To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.
- English Word Kilted Definition of Kilt