Kishon – Knot
Kishon
a river in Palestine. Here Elijah slaughtered the priests of Baal, and Deborah and Barak defeated Sisera. watering-place of KISSINGEN, a Bavaria, Germany, on the Saale, 30 miles N. of Würzburg. The springs, five in number, and all saline, contain a large quantity of carbonic acid gas, and are used both internally and as baths.
Kitchener
town and county-seat of Waterloo co., Ont., Canada; formerly called Berlin; on the Grand river, and
Kiu-Kiang
a seaport of China,
Kiu-Siu
one of the three principal islands of Japan, separated from Korea by the Strait of Korea, and from Hondo by the Strait of Sikoku. Nagasaki is situated here.
River," a river known to the ancients as
Kleenboc
a pigmy antelope found at the Cape of Good Hope. It is about a foot high at the shoulder, with small erect black horns, somewhat approaching at the tips.
Kleptomania
a supposed species of insanity manifesting itself in a desire to pilfer.
Knapsack
a soldier's or tourist's case or wrapper for clothes, etc., to be carried on the back during a march; a tourist's or traveler's satchel.
Kneipp
SEBASTIAN, a German clergyman; born in Stefansried, May 17, German 1821. He became Roman Catholic priest in 1852. His attention was early a KNIGHT drawn to the "water cure" which he advocated for years. This method was chiefly walking barefoot in dew-moistened grass.
He died in Wörishofen, June 17, 1897. lish portrait painter; born in Lübeck,
Knights of Pythias
a secret fraternal order organized at Washington, D. C., in 1864, and numbering in the United States in 1920 746,034 members.
Knights of the Maccabees
a benevolent association, founded in 1881.
In 1917, the membership was 722,075; 5000 sub-lodges, governed by nine Grand Lodges and one Supreme Lodge.
KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE.
See ROUND TABLE, KNIGHTS OF THE.
Knights Templar
a degree or order of modern Freemasonry ranking in dignity above the Blue Lodge and the Royal Arch Chapter. The orders conferred in a commandery of Knights Templar are Red Cross, Knight Templar, and Knight of Malta. A Mason to obtain these orders must be a Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason in good standing.
See FREEMASON.
Knot
a wading bird, which has the breast deep chestnut in summer and white in winter, and the back dark with fulvous spots in summer and ashy-gray in winter. It breeds within the Arctic circle, from which it migrates in autumn to the Eastern Hemisphere, as far even as the Cape and Australia.
KNOT GRASS, with internodes, narrow leaves, silvery