Kittiwake
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a gull so called from its characteristic cry. The common kittiwake nests in enormous colonies in the rocky cliffs of the northern Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and flies southward in winter. The wings are long and slight. The bill is yellow. It is curved abruptly downward at the tip, and is admirably suited for snatching food from the surface of the sea. The adults are about seventeen inches in length with a wing spread of a yard. The color is snow-white, with a dark pearl-blue mantle. A similar species with coral red beak and legs nests around the North Pacific. See Gull
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a gull, Larus tridactylus , so called because the fourth toe is only a small tubercle without any projecting horny nail 15½ inches; or claw. Length, inches; head, neck and undersurface wh white; back and wings, French gray; legs short and dusky; toes and interdigital membranes dusky. Found in the highest latitudes and as far S. as Tripoli. PHER, an island of the Leeward group,
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Knapsack
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a soldier's or tourist's oldier's or tourist's clothes, ste, to be case or wrapper for clothes, etc., to be carried on the back during a march; a dar tourist's or traveler's satchel.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Haversack
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Knights of Pythias
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a charitable fraternity. It was organized at Washington, D. C., February 19, 1864, by five clerks in the government office. It was designed at first to confine the fraternity to members of this description. The published principles of the order are: Toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government. The feature of the organization which has made it extremely popular is the plan of life insurance . The members not only have a good time, but they secure insurance in case of death or sickness at actual cost. There are over half a million members and about 7,000 subordinate lodges. In 1905 the amount of relief distributed was not far from $1,500,000.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a secret fraternal order organized at Washington, D. C., in 1864, and numbering in the United States in 1920 746,034 members.
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Kronstadt
Aiton's Encyclopedia: kron'stat, the seaport of St. Petersburg. It is situated on an island in the Gulf of Finland opposite the mouth of the Neva. Lines of steamers run from Kronstadt to Stockholm, Stettin, Lubeck, Havre, etc. Population, about 60,000. It is the chief naval fortress of Russia and is the headquarters of the Russian navy. It was for this naval station and a water frontage that Peter the Great removed his capital from Moscow and built up a new city at St. Petersburg. See St. Petersburg; Neva
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an important trading a Hungarian county in the extreme S. E. of Transylvania . Pop. about 40,000. For the Russian Kronstadt, see CRON- STADT. Africa, much employed in doing rough
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