n. [ Cf. G. kies gravel, pyrites. ] (Min.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Heb. ] the third month of the Jewish civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, occupying a part of November and a part of December.
n. [ Per. qismat. ] Destiny; fate.
n. [ OE. kiss, derived under the influence of the verb from the older form coss, AS. coss. See Kiss, v. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Last with a kiss, she took a long farewell. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Dear as remembered kisses after death. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
He . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack,
That at the parting all the church echoed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Rose, rose and clematis,
Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Kissing comfit,
n.
. (Zool.) Any one of several species of blood-sucking, venomous Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip or other parts of the human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose (Conorhinus sanguisuga). [ U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
. A cousin sufficiently well acquainted to be greeted with a kiss; a type of
n. (Cookery) The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]
A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt. [ 1913 Webster ]