Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter K - Page 3
Keenly (adv.) In a keen manner.
Keenness (n.) The quality or state of being keen.
Kept (imp. & p. p.) of Keep.
Keeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keep.
Keep (v. t.) To care; to desire.
Keep (v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain.
Keep (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor.
Keep (v. t.) To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of.
Keep (v. t.) To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.
Keep (v. t.) To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.
Keep (v. t.) To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.
Keep (v. t.) To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a journal, etc. ; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book.
Keep (v. t.) To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.
Keep (v. t.) To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders.
Keep (v. t.) To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.
Keep (v. t.) To have habitually in stock for sale.
Keep (v. t.) To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.
Keep (v. t.) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to neglect; to be faithful to.
Keep (v. t.) To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as, to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. ; hence, to haunt; to frequent.
Keep (v. t.) To observe duty, as a festival, etc. ; to celebrate; to solemnize; as, to keep a feast.
Keep (v. i.) To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach.
Keep (v. i.) To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired.
Keep (v. i.) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
Keep (v. i.) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
Keep (v. i.) To be in session; as, school keeps to-day.
Keep (n.) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
Keep (n.) The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep.
Keep (n.) The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse.
Keep (n.) That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle.
Keep (n.) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
Keep (n.) A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place.
Keeper (n.) One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.
Keeper (n.) One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.
Keeper (n.) One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver.
Keeper (n.) One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
Keeper (n.) A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.
Keeper (n.) A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.
Keepership (n.) The office or position of a keeper.
Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
Keeping (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.
Keeping (n.) Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.
Keeping (n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.
Keepsake (n.) Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.
Keesh (n.) See
Keeve (n.) A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.
Keeve (n.) A bleaching vat; a kier.
Keeve (n.) A large vat used in dressing ores.
Keeved (imp. & p. p.) of Keeve.
Keeving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keeve.
Keeve (v. t.) To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.
Keeve (v. t.) To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
Keever (n.) See Keeve, n.
Keffe-kil (n.) See Kiefekil.
Keg (n.) A small cask or barrel.
Keilhau-ite (n.) A mineral of a brownish black color, related to titanite in form. It consists chiefly of silica, titanium dioxide, lime, and yttria.
Keir (n.) See Kier.
Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985) 綺拉·奈特莉（英語：Keira Knightley，發音為/ˌkɪərəˈnaɪtlɪ/[1]；1985年3月26日－）是一個曾獲奧斯卡金像獎和金球獎提名的英國女演員。[2]她在孩童時已經開始其演藝事業，在2003年電影《我愛貝克漢》和《神鬼奇航：鬼盜船魔咒》中擔任主角後，成為世界知名的影星，其後陸續在多齣好萊塢電影中演出。2005年演出改編自珍·奧斯汀小說的同名電影《傲慢與偏見》，以此劇提名入圍奧斯卡最佳女主角獎。Is an English actress. She began acting as a child on television and made her film debut in 1995. She had a supporting role as Sabé in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and her first significant role came in the psychological horror film The Hole (2001). She gained widespread recognition in 2002 after co-starring in the film Bend It Like Beckham and achieved international fame in 2003 after appearing as Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. One of the highest-paid actresses of Hollywood, Knightley has won numerous awards and has garnered multiple nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award.
Knightley became known for starring in period dramas [1] such as Pride & Prejudice (2005), for which she earned nominations for the and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress; Atonement (2007), for which she was nominated again for a Golden Globe; Silk (2007); The Duchess (2008); A Dangerous Method (2011); and Anna Karenina (2012). She has also appeared in a variety of other genres, including the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003), as Guinevere in the historical action King Arthur (2004), the psychological thriller The Jacket (2005), as bounty hunter Domino Harvey in the biographical action Domino (2005), the historical romantic drama The Edge of Love (2008), the film noir London Boulevard (2010), the dystopian science fiction Never Let Me Go (2010), the romantic drama Last Night (2010), the dark comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), the musical comedy-drama Begin Again (2013), the action spy thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) and the romantic comedy Laggies (2014).
In 2014, Knightley was nominated for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the historical drama The Imitation Game. In October 2015, she made her Broadway debut in the title role of Thérèse Raquin. Her recent films include the biographical adventure film Everest (2015), the drama Collateral Beauty (2016) and her return to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in the fifth instalment, Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). In 2018, she will star as the novelist Colette in the biographical drama of the same name and in the Disney fantasy film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, as the Sugar Plum Fairy.
In its 2008 list, Forbes identified Knightley as the second-highest-paid actress in Hollywood, with reported earnings of US$32 million in 2007, making her the only non-American on the list of highest-paid actresses that year.[2]
Keitloa (n.) A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer.
Keld (a.) Having a kell or covering; webbed.
Kele (v. t.) To cool.
Kell (n.) A kiln.
Kell (n.) A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2.
Kell (n.) The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
Kell (n.) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
Keloid (a.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin.
Keloid (n.) A keloid tumor.
Kelotomy (n.) See Celotomy.
Kelp (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.
Kelp (n.) Any large blackish seaweed.
Kelpfish (n.) A small
Kelpies (pl. ) of Kelpy.
Kelpie (n.) Alt. of Kelpy.
Kelpy (n.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned.
Kelpware (n.) Same as Kelp, 2.
Kelson (n.) See Keelson.
Kelt (n.) See Kilt, n. -- Jamieson.
Kelt (n.) Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Kelt (n.) A salmon after spawning. [Scot.]
Kelt (n.) Same as Celt, one of Celtic race.
Compare: Kilt
Kilt (n.) A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg. [Written also kelt.]
Compare: Celt
Celt (n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France. [Written also Kelt. The letter C was pronounced hard in Celtic languages.]
Kelt (n.) A member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times [syn: Celt, Kelt].
Kelter (n.) Regular order or proper condition.
Keltic (a. & n.) Same as Celtic, a. & n.
Kembed (imp. & p. p.) of Kemb.
Kempt () of Kemb.
Kembing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kemb.
Kemb (v. t.) To comb.
Kemelin (n.) A tub; a brewer's vessel.
Kemp (n.) Alt. of Kempty.
Kempty (n.) Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.
Kempe (a.) Rough; shaggy.
Kemps (n. pl.) The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata).
Kempt () p. p. of Kemb.
Ken (v. i.) To look around. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Ken (n.) Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge. "Beyond his ken." -- Longfellow.
Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension. -- South.
It was relief to quit the ken And the inquiring looks of men. -- Trench. Kendal green
Ken (n.) A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves. [Slang, Eng.]
Kenned (imp. & p. p.) of Ken.
Kenning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ken.
Ken (v. t.) To know; to understand; to take cognizance of. [Archaic or Scot.]
Ken (v. t.) To recognize; to descry; to discern. [Archaic or Scot.] "We ken them from afar." -- Addison
'T is he. I ken the manner of his gait. -- Shak.
Ken (n.) Range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken" [syn: cognizance, ken].
Ken (n.) The range of vision; "out of sight of land" [syn: sight, ken].
Ken (n.) [Unix] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of Unix. In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read ?Love, ken ?. Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet, in particular) that without a last name ?Ken? refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, ?Dennis? without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). See also demigod, Unix.
Ken (n.) A flaming user. This was originated by the Software Support group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken.
Ken, () Ken Thompson
Ken, () A flaming user. This was originated by the Software Support group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken. [{Jargon File]
Kendal green () Alt. of Kendal.
Kendal () A cloth colored green by dye
obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in
Kennel (n.) The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle.