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KARREE.
-c,,.,r.itl from the 'Original Hottentot Words Ir >*>P*";
man's I 'oy. 1772-6 (see quoL 1785! is called broken Dutch .
P Kolbe (1745, >n Astley's Voyage! III. 35") gives the name
of kul-kros 10 the skin-apron worn by women, and kul-kros
to that of the men : in these the first element is Dutch.
But it has not been ascertained of what Dutch word kros
or karos could be a corruption. (Mr. James Plan, to
whom these data for the history of the word are due, has
Pg. curral.) See Notes and Queries 9th Ser. V. 125, 236;
Atktnxum 19 May 1900.) But Hesseling, Het Afrtkaansch
(Leiden 1899) 81, thinks the word Hottentot.)
Karoyne, Karp(e, obs. ff. CARRION, CARP z>.l
Karrat, Karrawan, Karre, Karreine,
Karrek, obs. ff. CARAT, CARAVAN, CAKK*,
CARRION, CARRACK.
Ii Karree
(kae-n). [S. Afr. Dn. karree (-/tout,
-boom), from Hottentot name.] A South African
tree (XAus viminalis) resembling a willow, used
for making bows.
[i8u BURCHELL Trar. I. 179 Very large bushes of Karreehout,
which . . have a great resemblance to our common
willows.) 1814 Ibid. II. 199 The bow itself is made not
always of the same sort of wood. . . The karree-tree . . is most
generally used for this purpose. 1841 MOFFAT Miss. Tours
S. i. Afr. 6 Kharree trees and shrubs umbrageous at all
seasons of the year. 1876 Miss FREWER tr. Verne's Adv.
in S. Afr. v. 39 The karrees with dark green foliage.
II Karri (kse-ii). Also kari. [Native name
(W. Australia).] An Australian tree (Eucalyptus
diversicolor, one of the '
blue gums'); also, its hard
red timber, used in street-paving. Also attrib.
1870 W. H. KNIGHT W. Austral. 38 (Morris) The Karri..
Office, where the wear and tear is exceedingly heavy. 18
lllustr. Land. News i . . May 598 They neither rot in the
ground nor yield to the ravages of the white ant . . it is not
necessary to creosote Karri or Jarrah sleepers.
Karroo, var. spelling of KAROO.
Karstenite (ka-istensit). Min. [ad. G. karstenit,
named 1813, after D. L. G. Karsten : see
-HE 1 .] Anhydrous sulphate of lime; now called
ANHYDRITE. 1844 in DANA Min.
t Kart, Kart-, obs. form of CART sb., CART-.
1425 l**ffc. in Wr.-Wiilcker 650/21 Hie carpentarius,
kartwryght 14.. Ibid. 568/16 Bigata, a kartlode. Ibid,
593/29 Lolidolium, a kartsadell. Ibid. 611/6 Selabicalis
[? read scala bigalis\, a kartladdere.
II Kartel (kaut'l). Also oartle. [S. African
Dutch; app. ad. '
Pg. catel, [title, catre little bed ',
according to Schuchardt (Kreol. Stud. IX. 119), a
South Indian word, Tamil kattil bedstead, adopted
and diffused by the Portuguese.] The wooden
bed or hammock, in a South African ox-wagon.
1880 P. GTU.MORE On Duty 275 The worthy missionary
had his waggon brought in front of the porch, swung a
cartle in it, and made my bed there. 1883 OLIVE SCHREINER
Story Afr. Farm II. xii. (1887) 276 Next day Gregory carried
'
her. .to the . waggon. .As he laid her down on the kartel'
she looked far out across the plain. 1885 RIDER HAGGARD
K. Solomon's Mines iii. (1887) 42 In this after part was
a hide '
cartle '
or bed.
Karthe, erron. f. scart, SCRAT, hermaphrodite.
Karval, -vel, obs. forms of CARVEL.
Karve, Karver, obs. ff. CARVE, CARVER.
Kary, Karyage, obs. ff. CARRY. CARRIAGE.
fKarybdys, Karibdous, obs. ff. CHARVHDIS.
c 1400 Rom. Rose 4713 It [Love] is Karibdous perilous, Disagreable
and gracious, c 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov.
Lordsh. 50 Sylla and karybdys.
obs. forms of CARRION.
Karyn, karyun,
t Karyn(e, var. CARENE 2 Obs., forty days' fast.
1502 ARNOLDE Ckron. 150 Here folow' the knowelege wh.it
a Karyne vs. ..He that fulfilleth alle thes poyntis vij. yere
duryng, dothe and wynnethe a Karyne, that ys to sey
a Lenton.
Karyo- (kae'rio), sometimes caryo-, combining
form of Gr. xapvov nut, kernel, employed
in a
number of biological terms referring to the nucleus
of an animal or vegetable cell, esp. to changes
which take place in its structure. The earliest of
these were karyolysis, karyolylic (introduced by
Auerbach in 1874) and karyokinesis (Schleicher).
Those generally recognized are the :
following
Karyokinesis (-ksinfsis) [Gr. Ktvrjois motion],
the complicated series of changes observed in
indirect or '
mitotic '
division of a cell-nucleus ;
hence Karyokinetic (-ksine'tik) a., pertaining to
karyokinesis. Xa-ryoly mph, the more fluid
portion of a cell-nucleus. Karyolysis (koerijrlisis)
[Gr. Ai!