Kite: Definition and part of speech

Kite

  1. n. The belly.
  2. n. Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
  3. n. Fig. : One who is rapacious.
  4. n. A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
  5. n. A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
  6. n. A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.
  7. n. 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.
  8. n. The brill.
  9. v. i. To raise money by “kites;” as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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