A Malay-English dictionary,

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kesut. Edging towards anything, moving
edgeways, pushing slowly towards a person.
Terkesut-kesut bagai atnak tidak di-aku: edging
up towards one like a child whose parent
refuses to notice it; overtures on the part of
anyone in disgrace; Prov., J. S. A. S., III., 27.
Cf. esut.
kisut. Crumpled, ruffled, shrivelled up.
kisar. Revolution; swift motion in a circle.
Berkisar: to revolve rapidly. Ayer yang berkisar: an eddy; Muj., 93.
Kisaran: anything that does its work by
revolution, e.g., a lathe or grindstone or
millwheel. Pengisar: id.; Sh. Abd. Mk., I44.
Mtensgisarkan: to grind with a wheel, to break
on a wheel, to sharpen on a grindstone; Sh.
Panj. Sg.
kesor. To shove forward; to push forward.
MIengesor segala pedati meriyam: to run out the
gun-carriages; Ht. Raj. Don., I6.

KILA
4. kipas. A fan. Tingkap k.: venetian blinds;
Sh. Pant. Shl., 2. K. kapal: the screw of a
steamer.
Kipasi: to fan; Ht. Gul. Bak., 87. Mengipas:
id., Ht. Ind. Nata.. kepeng. A small copper coin or weight; a
" cash;" a half-duwit.
5( kepak. I. Terkepak: bent, warped, twisted,
-of an arm, branch, or limb.
II. Dukong kepak: to carry on the shoulder
or hip without using a sling. The word is
used of the way a child is carried or of the
way a tiger carries off its prey.
ctS kipai. I. Besprinkling, by waving a wet
cloth or an aspergillus.
II. Welding metals together by the use of
heat and pressure.
III. (Kedah.) Partial paralysis; paralysis
confined to one side.
Ja kiyok. I. (Onom.) The cackling of a fowl.
Pronounced kiyolk.
II. Terkiyok: twisted; turned almost to the
point of dislocation.
III. Putu kiyok: (Riau.) The namt of a
sweetmeat..-.JL kesep. Bad in one item or section; partly
bad, as a durian of which one section is
withered while the rest are all right.
Buta k.: blindness when the eyeball is
destroyed.
"-? kesek. The process of producing, by the
friction of two pieces of bamboo, a sound
resembling the note of a bird; KI., v. d. W.,
Pijn. Locally (Riau, Johor) gesek.
\ kisal. MlIngisal: to rub (anything) against
the lower part of the palm of the hand.
\ kesel. To rub an itching body or limb against
Be anything, as a horse suffering from itch rubs
itself against the sides of its stall. Also gesel.
5~ kisi. A bar or post in a series; a rod in a
loom. Kisi-kisi trellis-work; Ht. Ind. Meng.;
Ht. Ism. Yat., 27, 114. Berkisi-kisi: adorned
with trellis-work; Sh. Pant. Shl., i3.
' kiyang. Kiyang-kiyitt: (Onom.) the creaking
of a door; v. kiyut.
kiyong. A marine shell-fish (unidentified).
4L' kaiflyat. Arab. Manner, way, quality, mode.
"J~ kiyap. I. The truck of a mast or flagstaff.
II. Kangkang-kiyap: opening and closing
the thighs.
LI' kepet. I. Turned back, of the edge of a
pillow; broad and retrouss6, of the nose.
II. Unwashed (of the abaimana); a term of
abuse; KI., v. d. W.

kikir. A file; a grater; Kam. Kech., 9; Ht.
Abd., x18. Kikir nri belulang kering rendam
tujoh hari ta'-basahl: a skate-skin grater and a
dry pelt though sunk in water a week will
not absorb moisture; a metaphor for a miser
on whom solicitation is wasted; J. S. A. S.,
IL, I5o.
The use of kikir in this metaphorical sense
"miserly" is more common colloquially than
in its literal meaning " a file."
kikis. A rough first scraping; scraping paint
off wood preparatory to re-painting; rubbing
off roughnesses with a view to ultimately
cleaning and polishing; rubbing off mussels
from the bottom of a ship. Kikiskan: to
clean by scraping, to scrape; Muj., 86.

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3> kekek or kikek. I. (Onom.) A giggling
laugh.
II. A gusset; a crescent-shaped or triangular piece of cloth let into a garment.
Ikan k.: a fish (unidentified).
J>. kekok. Blundering, awkward, or clumsy,-of
work.

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kekel or kikil. I. Extreme stinginess. Cf.
kikir.
II. Shaking with laughter.
kila. [Skr. indrakila.] Beranta kila: the
mountain Indrakila.,~ kepot. Leaning or crouching over on one side.

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