Alkargen :: Alkargen (n.) Same as Cacodylic acid.

Alkarsin :: Alkarsin (n.) A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid..

Backarack :: Backarack (n.) A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.

Backarack :: Backarack (n.) See Bacharach.

Backare :: Backare (interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess..

Backare :: Backare (interj.) Same as Baccare.

Blinkard :: Blinkard (n.) One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes..

Blinkard :: Blinkard (n.) That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears..

Chickaree :: Chickaree (n.) The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry.

Chikara :: Chikara (n.) The goat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) of India.

Chikara :: Chikara (n.) The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).

Drunkard :: Drunkard (n.) One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.

Eskar :: Eskar (n.) Alt. of Eske.

Harikari :: Harikari (n.) See Hara-kiri.

Hurkaru :: Hurkaru (n.) In India, a running footman; a messenger..

Kakaralli :: Kakaralli (n.) A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle..

Karagane :: Karagane (n.) A species of gray fox found in Russia.

Karaism :: Karaism (n.) Doctrines of the Karaites.

Karaite :: Karaite (n.) A sect of Jews who adhere closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the Rabbinists..

Karatas :: Karatas (n.) A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (Nidularium Karatas).

Karma :: Karma (n.) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

Karmathian :: Karmathian (n.) One of a Mohammedan sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat.

Karn :: Karn (n.) A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn..

Karob :: Karob (n.) The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths.

Karpholite :: Karpholite (n.) A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a straw-yellow color. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese.

Karreo :: Karreo (n.) One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations..

Karroos :: Karroos (pl. ) of Karre.

Karstenite :: Karstenite (n.) Same as Anhydrite.

Karvel :: Karvel (n.) See Carvel, and Caravel..

Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..

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