KEG. A small cask, of no fixed contents. Used familiarly for taking offence, as to keg, is to irritate.—To carry the keg. To continue; originally a smuggler's phrase.
KEGGED. Feeling affronted or jeered at.
KELDS. The still parts of a river, which have an oily smoothness while the rest of the water is ruffled.
KELF. The incision made in a tree by the axe when felling it.
KELING. A large kind of cod. Thus in Havelok:—
"Keling he tok, and tumberel,
Hering, and the makerel."
KELKS. The milt or roe of fish.
KELLAGH. The Erse term for a wooden anchor with a stone in it, but in later times is applied to any grapnel or small anchor.
KELP. Salsola kali; the ashes produced by the combustion of various marine algæ, and used in obtaining iodine, soda, &c.
KELPIE. A mischievous sea-sprite, supposed to haunt the fords and ferries of the northern coasts of Great Britain, especially in storms.