Definition of k

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K () the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, is nonvocal consonant. The form and sound of the letter K are from the Latin, which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see)..

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Sodium :: Sodium (n.) A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol
Knights Bachelors :: Knights bachelors (pl. ) of Knight bachelo.
Sob :: Sob (v. t.) To soak.
Scumming :: Scumming (n.) That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Lugubrious :: Lugubrious (a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look..
Eponymous :: Eponymous (a.) Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like..
Trout :: Trout (n.) Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock..
Kinesiatrics :: Kinesiatrics (n.) A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; -- also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure..
Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans..
Vacate :: Vacate (v. t.) To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house..
Angina :: Angina (n.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath..
Mixtion :: Mixtion (n.) A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf..
Dusky :: Dusky (a.) Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley..
Skullcap :: Skullcap (n.) The Lophiomys.
Plagiocephaly :: Plagiocephaly (n.) Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
Headstock :: Headstock (n.) The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc..
Clinic :: Clinic (n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.
Biogeny :: Biogeny (n.) A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
Sheldfowl :: Sheldfowl (n.) The common sheldrake.
Merk :: Merk (n.) A mark; a sign.
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