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lady-in-waiting
  • n  a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess
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kite
  • n  a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
  • n  a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float
  • n  plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
  • n  any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
  • v  increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently
    He kited many checks
  • v  get credit or money by using a bad check
    The businessman kited millions of dollars
  • v  soar or fly like a kite
    The pilot kited for a long time over the mountains
  • v  fly a kite
    They kited the Red Dragon model
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kite balloon
  • n  a barrage balloon with lobes at one end that keep it headed into the wind
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kitembilla
  • n  a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
  • n  maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
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kith
  • n  your friends and acquaintances
    all his kith and kin
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kitsch
  • n  excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste
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kittee
  • n  a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more
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kitten
  • n  young domestic cat
  • v  have kittens
    our cat kittened again this year
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kitten-tails
  • n  a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers
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kittiwake
  • n  small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe
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kittul
  • n  fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
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kitty
  • n  the combined stakes of the betters
  • n  the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
  • n  young domestic cat
  • n  informal terms referring to a domestic cat
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kitty litter
  • n  granulated clay; placed in a container where it absorbs the waste products of a cat or dog
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