KERRY

Name Report For First Name KERRY:

First name KERRY's origin is Irish. KERRY means "dusky: dark". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with KERRY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of kerry.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with KERRY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with KERRY - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming KERRY

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES KERRY AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH KERRY (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (erry) - Names That Ends with erry:

perry cherry merry sherry derry gerry jerry terry thierry

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (rry) - Names That Ends with rry:

barry darry farry gilvarry gorry harry larry murry rorry torry corry garry

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ry) - Names That Ends with ry:

kundry tamary khairy jory avery emery salisbury thiery cleary ambry devery dory hilary hillary ivory margery mary rosemary aeary amery amory carbry cary conary cory dary ellery emory flannery gary gregory jeffery jeffry keary leary mallory montgomery mukonry rory sallsbury sheary tory zachary zackary zackery zakary dimitry stanbury kendry geary fakhry cundry khoury landry roxbury amaury henry aubry destry devry

NAMES RHYMING WITH KERRY (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (kerr) - Names That Begins with kerr:

kerr kerra kerri kerri-ann kerrianne kerrick kerrie kerrigan kerrin kerrington

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ker) - Names That Begins with ker:

kera keran kerani kerbasi keren keres keri keriam keriana keriann kerianna kerianne keril kerilyn kerin kerk kerm kerman kermeilde kermichael kermichil kermilda kermilla kermillie kermit kermode kern kerne kerstin kerttu kerwen kerwin kerwyn kerye keryn

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ke) - Names That Begins with ke:

kea keagan keaghan keahi keaira keala kealan kealeboga keallach kealsea kealy kean keana keanan keandre keane keanna keannen keanu keara kearn kearne kearney keaton keavy kecia kedalion kedar keddrick kedric kedrick keefe keefer keegan keegsquaw keelan keelee keeley keelia keelin keely keelyn keenan keenat keene keenon keesha keezheekoni kefira kegan kei keiana keianna keifer keiji

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH KERRY:

First Names which starts with 'ke' and ends with 'ry':

First Names which starts with 'k' and ends with 'y':

kacey kacy kady kaeley kailey kaity kaley kally kaly kandy karley karly karney karoly kasey kassidy kathy kay kayley kelby kelcey kelcy kelley kellsey kelly kelsey kelsy kenley kenly kennedy kennelly kenney kenny kenway kenzy ketty kevay key kieley kiley kim-ly kimberley kimberly kimssy kingsley kinney kinny kinsey kinsley kirby kirkley kirkly kirsty kitty kloey koby kody kolby koofrey kopecky korey kortniey kosey kosmy krany krzy

English Words Rhyming KERRY

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES KERRY AS A WHOLE:

skerry

noun (n.) A rocky isle; an insulated rock.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH KERRY (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (erry) - English Words That Ends with erry:

aleberry

noun (n.) A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread.

baneberry

noun (n.) A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

barberry

noun (n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.

bayberry	noun (n.) The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.
	noun (n.) A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).
	noun (n.) The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.

bearberry

noun (n.) A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

berberry

noun (n.) See Barberry.

berry	noun (n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
	noun (n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
	noun (n.) The coffee bean.
	noun (n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
	noun (n.) A mound; a hillock.
	verb (v. i.) To bear or produce berries.

bilberry	noun (n.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
	noun (n.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum.

blackberry

noun (n.) The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

blaeberry

noun (n.) The bilberry.

bleaberry

noun (n.) See Blaeberry.

blueberry

noun (n.) The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

bogberry

noun (n.) The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

boxberry

noun (n.) The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).

bunchberry

noun (n.) The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.

caperberry	noun (n.) The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.
	noun (n.) The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).

cassioberry

noun (n.) The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.

checkerberry

noun (n.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

cheerry

adjective (a.) Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person.

cherry	noun (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;
	noun (n.) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France).
	noun (n.) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).
	noun (n.) The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.
	noun (n.) The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.
	noun (n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.
	adjective (a.) Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

chokeberry

noun (n.) The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

chokecherry

noun (n.) The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.

cloudberry

noun (n.) A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamaemerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

cowberry

noun (n.) A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.

crakeberry

noun (n.) See Crowberry.

cranberry

noun (n.) A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.

crowberry

noun (n.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.

dangleberry

noun (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

deerberry

noun (n.) A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

dewberry	noun (n.) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.
	noun (n.) The plant which bears the fruit.

dogberry

noun (n.) The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry.

equerry	noun (n.) A large stable or lodge for horses.
	noun (n.) An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.

elderberry

noun (n.) The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder (Sambucus nigra) and that of the American sweet elder (S. Canadensis) are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wine.

feaberry

noun (n.) A gooseberry.

gooseberry	adjective (a.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.
	adjective (a.) A silly person; a goose cap.

hackberry

noun (n.) A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States.

hagberry

noun (n.) A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry.

hindberry

noun (n.) The raspberry.

huckleberry	noun (n.) The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.
	noun (n.) The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry.

hurtleberry

noun (n.) See Whortleberry.

honeyberry

noun (n.) The fruit of either of two trees having sweetish berries: (a) An Old World hackberry (Celtis australis). (b) In the West Indies, the genip (Melicocca bijuga).

juneberry	noun (n.) The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry.
	noun (n.) The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and had tree.

jerry

adjective (a.) Flimsy; jerry-built.

knotberry

noun (n.) The cloudberry (Rudus Chamaemorus); -- so called from its knotted stems.

merry	noun (n.) A kind of wild red cherry.
	superlative (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
	superlative (superl.) Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
	superlative (superl.) Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.

mulberry	noun (n.) The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.
	noun (n.) A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry.

nannyberry

noun (n.) See Sheepberry.

naseberry

noun (n.) A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla.

oneberry

noun (n.) The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb.

querry	noun (n.) A groom; an equerry.
	noun (n.) A groom; an equerry.

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (rry) - English Words That Ends with rry:

amburry

noun (n.) Same as Anbury.

barry

adjective (a.) Divided into bars; -- said of the field.

blurry

adjective (a.) Full of blurs; blurred.

burry

adjective (a.) Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

carry	noun (n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.
	verb (v. t.) To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
	verb (v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.
	verb (v. t.) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
	verb (v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
	verb (v. t.) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.
	verb (v. t.) To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.
	verb (v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture.
	verb (v. t.) To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.
	verb (v. t.) To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.
	verb (v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.
	verb (v. i.) To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
	verb (v. i.) To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.
	verb (v. i.) To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
	verb (v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

charry

adjective (a.) Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

contrarry

adjective (a.) To contradict or oppose; to thwart.

curry	noun (n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
	noun (n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
	verb (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
	verb (v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
	verb (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
	verb (v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.

farry

noun (n.) A farrow.

firry

adjective (a.) Made of fir; abounding in firs.

flurry	noun (n.) A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
	noun (n.) A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.
	noun (n.) Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
	noun (n.) The violent spasms of a dying whale.
	verb (v. t.) To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.

furry	adjective (a.) Covered with fur; dressed in fur.
	adjective (a.) Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.
	adjective (a.) Resembling fur.

gharry

noun (n.) Any wheeled cart or carriage.

gurry	noun (n.) An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter.
	noun (n.) A small fort.

hurry	noun (n.) The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.
	verb (v. t.) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
	verb (v. t.) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to be done quickly.
	verb (v. i.) To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.

knarry

adjective (a.) Knotty; gnarled.

knurry

adjective (a.) Full of knots.

larry

noun (n.) Same as Lorry, or Lorrie.

lorry

noun (n.) A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

lurry

noun (n.) A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.

murry

noun (n.) See Muraena.

quarry	noun (n.) Same as 1st Quarrel.
	noun (n.) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
	noun (n.) A heap of game killed.
	noun (n.) The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
	noun (n.) A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).
	noun (n.) Same as 1st Quarrel.
	noun (n.) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
	noun (n.) A heap of game killed.
	noun (n.) The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
	noun (n.) A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).
	adjective (a.) Quadrate; square.
	adjective (a.) Quadrate; square.
	verb (v. i.) To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
	verb (v. t.) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
	verb (v. i.) To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
	verb (v. t.) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.

parry	noun (n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.
	verb (v. t.) To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
	verb (v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
	verb (v. i.) To ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc.

perry	noun (n.) A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
	noun (n.) A suddent squall. See Pirry.

pirry

noun (n.) Alt. of Pirrie

raspberry	noun (n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.
	noun (n.) The shrub bearing this fruit.

rheinberry

noun (n.) One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.

scarry	adjective (a.) Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
	adjective (a.) Like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing scars.

scurry	noun (n.) Act of scurring; hurried movement.
	verb (v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.

sheepberry

noun (n.) The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.

sherry

noun (n.) A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.

silverberry

noun (n.) A tree or shrub (Elaeagnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit.

skurry

noun (n. & v.) See Scurry.

snowberry

noun (n.) A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America.

sorry	adjective (a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.
	adjective (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
	adjective (a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.

sparry

adjective (a.) Resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose.

spurry

noun (n.) An annual herb (Spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in Europe for fodder.

squawberry

noun (n.) A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.

starry	adjective (a.) Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
	adjective (a.) Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.
	adjective (a.) Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.
	adjective (a.) Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

strawberry

noun (n.) A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species.

tarry	noun (n.) Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
	noun (n.) Stay; stop; delay.
	verb (v. i.) To stay or remain behind; to wait.
	verb (v. i.) To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.
	verb (v. i.) To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
	verb (v. t.) To delay; to defer; to put off.
	verb (v. t.) To wait for; to stay or stop for.

teaberry

noun (n.) The checkerberry.

terry

noun (n.) A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

thimbleberry

noun (n.) A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

urry

noun (n.) A sort of blue or black clay lying near a vein of coal.

waxberry

noun (n.) The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.

wherry	noun (n.) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.
	noun (n.) A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls.
	noun (n.) A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.

whinberry

noun (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze.

whortleberry	noun (n.) In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.
	noun (n.) The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry.

wineberry	noun (n.) The red currant.
	noun (n.) The bilberry.
	noun (n.) A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH KERRY (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (kerr) - Words That Begins with kerr:

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ker) - Words That Begins with ker:

keramic

adjective (a.) Same as Ceramic.

keramics

noun (n.) Same as Ceramics.

keramographic

adjective (a.) Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe.

kerana

noun (n.) A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians.

kerargyrite

noun (n.) See Cerargyrite.

kerasin

noun (n.) A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.

kerasine

adjective (a.) Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

keratin

noun (n.) A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal tissues, such as horn, hair, feathers, and the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called also epidermose.

keratitis

noun (n.) Inflammation of the cornea.

keratode

noun (n.) See Keratose.

keratogenous

adjective (a.) Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse.

keratoidea

noun (n. pl.) Same as Keratosa.

keratome

noun (n.) An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.

keratonyxis

noun (n.) The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.

keratophyte

noun (n.) A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

keratosa

noun (n. pl.) An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.

keratose	noun (n.) A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.
	adjective (a.) Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.

keraunograph

noun (n.) A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.

kerb

noun (n.) See Curb.

kerbstone

noun (n.) See Curbstone.

kercher

noun (n.) A kerchief.

kerchered

adjective (a.) Covered, or bound round, with a kercher.

kerchief	noun (n.) A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief.
	noun (n.) A lady who wears a kerchief.

kerchiefed

adjective (a.) Alt. of Kerchieft

kerchieft

adjective (a.) Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief.

kerf

noun (n.) A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.

kerite

noun (n.) A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy.

kerl

noun (n.) See Carl.

kermes	noun (n.) The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.
	noun (n.) A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.
	noun (n.) A genus of scale insects including many species that feed on oaks. The adult female resembles a small gall.

kermesse

noun (n.) See Kirmess.

kern	noun (n.) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt.
	noun (n.) Any kind of boor or low-lived person.
	noun (n.) An idler; a vagabond.
	noun (n.) A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank.
	noun (n.) A churn.
	noun (n.) A hand mill. See Quern.
	noun (n.) Kernel; corn; grain.
	noun (n.) The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.
	noun (n.) The harvest-home.
	verb (v. t.) To form with a kern. See 2d Kern.
	verb (v. i.) To harden, as corn in ripening.
	verb (v. i.) To take the form of kernels; to granulate.

kerning

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kern

kerned	adjective (a.) Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Kern

kernel	noun (n.) The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp.
	noun (n.) A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.
	noun (n.) A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
	noun (n.) The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.
	verb (v. i.) To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.

kerneling

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kernel

kerneled	adjective (a.) Alt. of Kernelled
	(imp. & p. p.) of Kernel

kernelled	adjective (a.) Having a kernel.
	() of Kernel

kernelly

adjective (a.) Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels.

kerish

adjective (a.) Clownish; boorish.

kerolite

noun (n.) Same as Cerolite.

kerosene

noun (n.) An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.

kers

noun (n.) Alt. of Kerse

kerse

noun (n.) A cress.

kersey

noun (n.) A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.

kerseymere

noun (n.) See Cassimere.

kerseynette

noun (n.) See Cassinette.

kerver

noun (n.) A carver.