{ } n. See Bacharach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a support that you can lean against while sitting.
Syn. -- back. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the money carried on one's person. ”He shot his bankroll on a bob-tailed nag.”
Syn. -- roll, wad. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. one's total supply of money; funds. [ PJC ]

v. t. To pay the costs of; as, Who will bankroll the restoration of the former East German economy?. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bankrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bankrupting. ] To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. banqueroute, fr. It. bancarotta bankruptcy; banca bank (fr. OHG. banch, G. bank, bench) + rotta broken, fr. L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. At Florence, it is said, the bankrupt had his bench (i.e., money table) broken. See 1st Bank, and Rupture, n. ] 1. (Old Eng. Law) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person. M‘Culloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England, until the year 1861 none but a “trader” could be made a bankrupt; a non-trader failing to meet his liabilities being an “insolvent”. But this distinction was abolished by the Bankruptcy Act of 1861. The laws of 1841 and 1867 of the United States relating to bankruptcy applied this designation bankrupt to others besides those engaged in trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). “Bankrupt in gratitude.” Sheridan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bankrupt law, a law by which the property of a person who is unable or unwilling to pay his debts may be taken and distributed to his creditors, and by which a person who has made a full surrender of his property, and is free from fraud, may be discharged from the legal obligation of his debts. See Insolvent, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bankruptcies 1. The state of being actually or legally bankrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or process of becoming a bankrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Complete loss; -- followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Colicroot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ German, blitz lightning + krieg war. ] an overwhelming all-out attack with infantry, armor, and air forces, especially by surprise against an unprepared enemy. [ PJC ]

v. to fight a quick and surprising war.
Syn. -- fight a blitzkrieg. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ In the language of the Calabar coast, buckra means “demon, a powerful and superior being.” J. L. Wilson. ] A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bokeram, bougeren, OF. boqueran, F. bougran, MHG. buckeram, LL. buchiranus, boquerannus, fr. MHG. boc, G. bock, goat (as being made of goat's hair), or fr. F. bouracan, by transposing the letter r. See Buck, Barracan. ] 1. A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Buckram was formerly a very different material from that now known by the name. It was used for wearing apparel, etc. Beck (Draper's Dict. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A plant. See Ramson. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stiff; precise. “Buckram dames.” Brooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. cucaracha. ] (Zool.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The species are numerous, especially in hot countries. Those most commonly infesting houses in Europe and North America are Blatta orientalis, a large species often called black beetle, and the Croton bug (Blatta Germanica, formerly Ectobia Germanica), also called the German cockroach. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Guinea. Population (2000) = 1, 508, 000. [ PJC ]

n. A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gentian + Gr. &unr_; bitter. ] (Chem.) A bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Chem.) The chemical symbol for the element krypton, one of the six noble gases. [ abbrev. ]
Syn. -- krypton. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D., a village, inclosure, park, prob. fr. Pg. curral a cattle pen; the same word as Sp. corral. See Corral. ] 1. A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut. [ South Africa ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated. [ Ceylon ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from OSw. krake, or ODan. krage the trunk of a tree, the branches of which are not entirely cut off, to which it was likened by the Norwegian mariners. ] A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus. [ 1913 Webster ]

To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) A lively Polish dance. See Cracovienne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. So called after the German botanists, J. G. H. Kramer & W. H. Kramer. ] (Bot.) A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (Krameria triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. kreng a carcass. ] The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. [ Written also crang and kreng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Whaling) A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [ Written also cranging hook. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Creatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Creatin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Creatinin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Creel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Russ. kremle. ] 1. The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc. [ Russia ]

2. Hence: The government of Russia (or, 1920-1992, of the Soviet Union). [ metonymical ] [ PJC ]

n. A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Krang. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Creosote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. kreuzer. ] A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin. [ Written also kreuzer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., fr. krieg war + spiel play. ] A game of war, played for practice, on maps. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Malay dagger. See Creese. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Skr. k&rsdot_;sh&nsdot_;a ' The black.'. ] (Hindu Myth.) The most popular of the Hindu divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Krishna is a well-known Hindu deity. Originally the ethnic god of some powerful confederation of Rajput clans, by fusion with the Vishnu of the older theology Krishna becomes one of the chief divinities of Hinduism. He is indeed an avatar of Vishnu, or Vishnu himself. In his physical character mingle myths of fire, lightning, and storm, of heaven and the sun. In the epic he is a hero invincible in war and love, brave, but above all crafty. He was the son of Vasudeva and Devaki, and born at Mathura, on the Yamuna, between Delhi and Agra, among the Yadavas. Like that of many solar heroes, his birth was beset with peril. On the night when it took place, his parents had to remove him from the reach of his uncle, King Kansa, who sought his life because he had been warned by a voice from heaven that the eighth son of Devaki would kill him, and who had regularly made away with his nephews at their birth. Conveyed across the Yamuna, Krishna was brought up as their son by the shepherd Nanda and his wife Yashoda, together with his brother Balarama, 'Rama the strong, ' who had been likewise saved from massacre. The two brothers grew up among the shepherds, slaying monsters and demons and sporting with the Gopis, the female cowherds of Vrindavana. Their birth and infancy, their juvenile exploits, and their erotic gambols with the Gopis became in time the essential portion of the legend of Krishna, and their scenes are today the most celebrated centers of his worship. When grown, the brothers put their uncle Kansa to death, and Krishna became king of the Yadavas. He cleared the land of monsters, warred against impious kings, and took part in the war of the sons of Pandu against those of Dhritarashtra, as described in the Mahabharata. He transferred his capital to Dvaraka ('the city of gates'), the gates of the West, since localized in Gujarat. There he and his race were overtaken by the final catastrophe. After seeing his brother slain, and the Yadavas kill each other to the last man, he himself perished, wounded in the heel, like Achilles, by the arrow of a hunter. The bible of the worshipers of Vishnu in his most popular manifestation, that of Krishna, consists of the Bhagavatapurana and the Bhagavadgita. See these words. [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

Hare Krishnas A popular name for the group International Society for Krishna Consciousness (abbreviated ISKCON), devotees of Krishna, founded in 1966 by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (born 1896, died 1977). They are called thus because of their frequent public chanting of the words “Hare Krishna”. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. krith`s judge + 'archh` beginning, government. ] The rule of the judges over Israel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Samson, Jephthah, Gideon, and other heroes of the kritarchy. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) See Crocidolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Dan. ] A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents (in 1913). See Crown, n., 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Kroomen One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard. [ 1913 Webster ]