Word Direct Answers

What does "kite" mean?

Kite: Fig. : One who is rapacious. Detested kite, thou liest. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
  2. 3.(Naut.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
  3. 4.(Geom.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry. Henrici.
  4. 5.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]
  5. 6.(Zoöl.) The brill. [Prov. Eng. ] Flying kites. (Naut.) See under Flying. -- Kite falcon (Zoöl.), an African falcon of the genus Avicida, having some resemblance to a kite.
  6. 7.To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6. [Cant]
  7. 8.The belly. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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