Kill

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Kiln.

II. Kill ·add. ·noun The act of Killing.

III. Kill ·add. ·noun An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.

IV. Kill ·vt To Destroy; to Ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.

V. Kill ·vt To destroy the effect of; to Counteract; to Neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.

VI. Kill ·vt To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to Slay.

VII. Kill ·vt To cause to cease; to Quell; to Calm; to Still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.

VIII. Kill ·noun A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills;

— used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, ·etc.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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