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Kite (kīt), n. [OE. kyte, AS. cȳta; cf. W. cud, cut.]
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1. (Zool.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
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☞ The European species are Milvus ictinus and Milvus migrans; the pariah kite of India is Milvus govinda; the sacred or Brahmany kite of India is Haliastur Indus; the American fork-tailed kite is the Nauclerus furcatus.
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2. Fig.: One who is rapacious.
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Detested kite, thou liest. Shak.
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3. A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
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4. (Naut.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
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5. (Geom.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry. Henrici.
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6. Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill. [Cant]
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7. (Zool.) The brill. [Prov. Eng.]
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8. (Naut.) A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; -- called also sentry.
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Flying kites. (Naut.) See under Flying. -- Kite falcon (Zool.), an African falcon of the genus Avicida, having some resemblance to a kite.
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Sentry (?), n.; pl. Sentires (#). [Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente. See Sentinel.]
1. (Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
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2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
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Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep,
Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. Dryden.
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Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.
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