n. [ Gf. AS. cytere harp, L. cithara. Cf. Guitar. ] A small violin. “A dancing master's kit.” Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. kit a large bottle, OD. kitte beaker, decanter. ] 1. A large bottle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A box for working implements. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence: A collection of tools or other objects to be used for a specific purpose, often contained in a box which may be carried conveniently; a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like; as, a plumber's kit; a doctor's kit; a cosmetic kit; a first-aid kit. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

6. A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them; the whole kit and kaboodle. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. kitte. ] To cut. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Kitten. ] A kitten. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kit fox (Zool.), a small burrowing fox (Vulpes velox), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small shrubby spiny tree (Dovyalis hebecarpa) cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasking like gooseberries; it is native to Sri Lanka and India.
Syn. -- ketembilla, kitembilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A maroon-purple gooseberrylike fruit of India having a tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves.
Syn. -- ketembilla, kitembilla. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a knapsack (usually for a soldier).
Syn. -- kit bag. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat. Cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kitcat roll (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine. ] 1. A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The staff that works in a kitchen. [ PJC ]

Kitchen garden. See under Garden. --
Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [ Obs. ] “A brazen tub of kitchen lee.” Ford. --
Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]