Defn: One who kisses. Beau. & Fl.
KISSING BUG
Kiss"ing bug`. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of blood-sucking, venomous Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip or other parts of the human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose (Conorhinus sanguisuga). [U. S.]
KISSINGCRUST
Kiss"ing*crust`, n. (Cookery)
Defn: The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Lamb. A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.
KISSING STRINGS
Kiss"ing strings`.
Defn: Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin.
One of her ladyship's kissing strings, once pink and fluttering and
now faded and soiled.
Pall Mall Mag.
KIST
Kist, n. Etym: [See Chest.]
Defn: A chest; hence, a coffin. [Scot. & Prov. End.] Jamieson.
Halliwell.