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Kite

Kite (kite)
n.(k***imacr]t)
Kite
[OE. kyte, AS. c***ymacr]ta; cf. W. cud, cut.]

  1. Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.

    * The European species are Milvus ictinus and M. migrans; the pariah kite of India is M. govinda; the sacred or Brahmany kite of India is Haliastur Indus; the American fork-tailed kite is the Nauclerus furcatus.

  2. Fig. : One who is rapacious.

    Detested kite, thou liest. Shak.

  3. A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
  4. A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
  5. A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.
    Henrici.
  6. Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.
    [Cant]
  7. The brill.
    [Prov. Eng.]

    Flying kites. (Naut.) See under Flying. -- Kite falcon (Zoöl.), an African falcon of the genus Avicida, having some resemblance to a kite.


Kite

Kite (kite)
v. i.
Kite
  1. To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.
    [Cant]

Kite

Kite (kite)
n.
Kite
  1. The belly.
    [Prov. Eng. *** Scot.]

Kite

Kite (kite)
n.
Kite
  1. A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; -- called also sentry.













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