Killarney (LAKES OF a series of dynes per)
LAKES OF, a series of 103 dynes per square centimeter are centimeter nearl three connected sheets of water. These a basin in square centimeter: centimeter = a kilogramme per square famous lakes are situated in 9.81 × 105 dynes per square centimeter dynes milliper square centimet the midst of the mountains of Kerry, the nearly; a kilogramme per square square mme per square tail some of which rise abruptly from trees meter = 9.81 × 107 dynes per yлeb pet squa water's edge densely clothed with the centimeter nearly. from base to summit. Between KILOLITER,
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Killarney (Small market town of weight)
a small market town of weight = of weight = 1,00 in the county of Kerry, Ireland, 12 French measure A kilogramme as a measure miles from the lower Killarney Lake. gramme as a measur grammes. 34874 grains, of whic of mass 15,432.34874 grains, of which 7,000. Its importance depends on the crowds of pound contains 7,000 the new standard pound contains × tourists who come to visit the famous A kilogramme weighs nearly 9.81 105 ighs nearly 9.81 × 1 lakes. On the shores of the lakes are ties-green, red, white, and brown-and dynes. In measuring pressure, a kiloring pressure, a kil marble quarries, yielding several variegramme per square meter = 98.1 dynes a kilore meter 98.1 dyne meter nearly; a kilper square centimeter nearly; 9.81 also some old copper mines. gramme per square decimeter = X nearly; are decimeter = 9.81
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Killdee
or KILLDEER, a small is 9 miles in circumference, with a lake of American bird akin to the plover. It to the plover. It is red and boiling lava at the bottom, over color above, each a light brown color above, each brownish-red 1,000 feet below the crater's mouth. of tipped with . with brownish-red. feather
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Killer Whale
one of the Scotland, 40 miles N. W. from the N. Delphinidæ (dolphins). It is from 18 Ins). It la from 18 extremity of the island of N. Uist. to 30 feet long, glossy black above, and above sy black above, and
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Killiecrankie
a pass through . IE, a pass through KILIMA-NJARO in East isolated mountain mass the Grampian Mountains in Scotland untains in Scotland. an Africa, standing between Victoria Nyty, the Revolutionary At the N. extremity, the Revolutionary anza and the coast. The mass consists ral Mackay, y, was utarmy, under General Mackay, was ut- Royalists, of two peaks, or rather craters, Kibo and saddle terly defeated, in 1689, by the , who fell 689, by the Royalists, Kimawenzi, connected by a broad lava hills. under Grahame of Claverhouse Claverhouse, who fell (14,000 feet) studded with in the moment of victory. ictory. Its highest point is about 19,680 feet
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Kilmer
JOYCE, an American poet E, an American poet above sea-level. Kimawenzi is more in New Brunswick, and author, born in New Brunswick, than 17,250 feet high. N. J., in 1886. He was engaged in news- York was engaged in news-
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Kilogramme
or KILOGRAM, a 1,000 or KILOGRAM,
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Kilolitre
or a French measure of capacity for fluids, 1,000 liters.
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Kilometer
or KILOMETRE, a 1,000 meters. It is 1093.63 yards, about five-eighths of a mile.
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Kilowatt
an old French solid measure containing 1,000 cubic meters = 35316.6 English cubic feet.
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Kilpatrick
HUGH JUDSON, an American military officer; born in Deckerton, N. J., Jan. 14, 1836. He was graduated at West Point in 1861. He served as captain at the battle of Big Bethel. In 1862 he took part in various operations of the army of the Potomac. He was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers in May, 1863, after which he was employed in a raid to Richmond for the release of Federal prisoners. He commanded the cavalry of Sherman's army on its march from Atlanta to Savannah. He was minister to Chile from 1865 to 1870, was reappointed in 1881. He died in Valparaiso, Dec. 4, 1881.
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Kinburn
or KILBURN, a former fort of south Russia, opposite Otchakoff. It figured prominently in the Russo- Turkish Wars of 1771-1774 and 1787; and during the Crimean War it fell before the Allies, Oct. 17, 1855. The fortifications were razed in 1860.
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Kincardineshire
OR THE MEARNS, a northern county of Scotland, bounded on the N. by the river Dee and Aberdeenshire, by Forfarshire on the W. and S., and the North Sea on the E. The principal rivers are Bervie Water, flowing south-eastward to the North Sea; the Water of Feugh; the Dye; Luther Water; and the Cowie. The county belonged to the old Celtic French measure of length or distance, kingdom of Scotland; area, 244,000 acres, of which 121,000 are in cultivation. In the W. and N. W. the Grampians traverse the county. The principal towns are Stonehaven, which is the capital; Laurencekirk and Inverbervie. Pop. about 45,000.
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Kinchok
one of the two chief divinities of Tibet.
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Kinderscout Grit
a name given to the coarse grits and flagstones which occur toward the base of the Millstone Grit of England. The rock forms the tableland of Kinderscout in the Peak country. The grit is quarried at Eyam Moore, Derwent Edge, and other places, and is used for engine beds, foundations, and reservoir work.
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Kinematics
the science of pure motion, admitting conceptions of time and velocity, but excluding the conception of force. From the kinematics of a point, all the properties of a curve may be deduced.
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Kinetic Motor
a vehicle impelled by means of stored energy. It is really a "stored-steam" system. KINETICS which treats of forces imparting motion , a branch of dynamics to or influencing motion already imparted to bodies.
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Kineto-Phonograph
an apparatus combining the principles of the kinetograph, the vitascope, and the phonograph, invented by by Thomas A. Edison.
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Kinetograph
an apparatus for taking pictures of moving objects in their changing positions. It was invented by Edison, a forerunner of the present motion picture machines.
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Kinetoscope
an instrument invented by Perigal, for illustrating the result of the combination of circular of movements of different radii in the production of curves; called also kinescope. Also an apparatus invented by Thomas A. Edison for exhibiting the pictures the taken by the kinetograph.
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King
HENRY CHURCHILL, URCH an American educator; born in Hillsdale, en Mich., in 1858. He graduated from graducted Oberlin College in 1878 and from Oberan lin Theological Seminary in 1882. He took post-graduate courses at Harvard and acted as tutor at Oberlin College Oberlin C from 1879 to 1882. He was successively was succes professor of philosophy, professor of profess dent of th theology, dean and president of that institution. He was appointed to the latinted to the ter position in 1902. He wrote much on wrote mu religious and economic subjects. He was objects a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation egie Foun and was a member of many other orothe ma ganizations. He wrote: "The Laws of Friendship, Human and Divine" (1909); Divine "The Ethics of Jesus" (1909); "Re- (1909) ligion as Life" (1913); "Fundamental Questions" (1917).
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