KROUT — KYANOGEN NWAD KROUT.1

KROUT, [See Crout.] NWAD KROUT.1

KRUKA, n. A bird of russia and Sweden, resembling a hedge sparrow. NWAD KRUKA.1

KUFIC, a. The Kufic letters were the ancient letters of the Arabic, so called from Kufa, or the Euphrates. NWAD KUFIC.1

KUMISS, n. A liquor or drink made from mare’s milk fermented and distilled; milkspirit, used by the Tartars. NWAD KUMISS.1

KURIL, n. A bird, the black petrel. NWAD KURIL.1

KURILIAN, a. The Kurilian isles are a chain in the Pacific, extending from the southern extremity of Kamschatka to Jesso. NWAD KURILIAN.1

KY, n. Kine. [Not in use.] NWAD KY.1

KYANITE, n. [Gr. sky colored. It is written also cyanite, but most improperly, if pronounced kyanite. Kyanite is doubtless the preferable orthography.] NWAD KYANITE.1

A mineral found both massive and in regular crystals. It is frequently in broad or compressed six-sided prisms, with bases a little inclined; or this crystal may be viewed as a four sided prism, truncated on two of its lateral edges, diagonally opposite. Its prevailed color is blue, whence its name, but varying from a fine Prussian blue to sky-blue, or bluish white. It occurs also of various shades of green, and even gray, or white and reddish. It is infusible by the common blowpipe. This mineral is called by Hauy and Brongniart, disthene, and by Saussure, sappare. NWAD KYANITE.2

KYANOGEN, n. [Gr. blue and to beget.] NWAD KYANOGEN.1

Carbureted azote; the compound base of prussic acid, called also prussine. NWAD KYANOGEN.2