An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 467
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 467
_Wallace._
~Kirk the gussie~, a play in which a large ball, called the _gussie_, is beat with clubs into a hole, one party opposing another. When the ball is lodged, the _gussie_ is said to be _kirkit_, Ang.
~Kirkine~, _adj._ Belonging to the church.
_Houlate._
~Kirk-maister~, _s._ A deacon in the church.
_Acts Ja. VI._
Teut. _kerk-maester_, aedituus.
~Kirkman~, _s._ A churchman.
_Knox._
~Kirk-town~, _s._ A village or hamlet in which the parish-church is erected, S.
_To_ KIRN, _v. a._
1. To churn, S.
_Ferguson._
A. S. _cern-an_, id.; Teut. _kern-en_.
2. To throw any thing into a disorderly state, S.
~Kirn~, _s._
1. A churn, S.
_Kelly._
Teut. _kerne_, id.
2. Metaph. applied to a mire, S.
~Kirnen~, _s._ Familiarity, S. B.
_Journal Lond._
~Kirn-milk~, _s._ b.u.t.termilk, S.
Teut. _kern-melck_, id.
_Complaynt._
~Kirn-staff~, _s._ The instrument employed for agitating the cream in churning. S.
_Ferguson._
KIRN, _s._
1. The feast of harvest-home, S.
_Burns._
2. The last handful of grain cut down on the harvest-field S.
KIRNEL, KYRNEILL, _s._ An interstice in a battlement.
_Barbour._
L. B. _kernellae_, id.; Fr. _crenele_, embattled.
KISH, _s._ A shining powdery matter, which separates from pig-iron long kept in a melted state.
KISSING-STRINGS, _s. pl._ Strings tied under the chin, S.
_Ross._
KIST, KYST, _s._
1. A chest. S.
_Wallace._
2. A coffin, S., sometimes _dead-kist_.
_Spalding._
A. S. _cest_, Germ. _kist_, Su. G. _kist-a_, Lat. _cist-a_, a chest, in general. A. S. _cyste_, a coffin, Belg. _doodkist_, id.
_To_ ~Kist~, _v. a._ To inclose in a coffin, S.
_Spalding._
~Kisting~, _s._ The act of putting a corpse into a coffin, with the entertainment given on this melancholy occasion, S.