Word Meanings - KIDNEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland. Note: In man and in other mammals there are two kidneys, one each side of vertebral column in the back part of the abdomen, each kidney

Additional info about word: KIDNEY

A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland. Note: In man and in other mammals there are two kidneys, one each side of vertebral column in the back part of the abdomen, each kidney being connected with the bladder by a long tube, the ureter, through which the urine is constantly excreted into the bladder to be periodically discharged. 2. Habit; disposition; sort; kind. Shak. There are in later other decrees, made by popes of another kidney. Barrow. Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns. Note: This use of the word perhaps arose from the fact that the kidneys and the fat about them are an easy test of the condition of an animal as to fatness. "Think of that, -- a man of my kidney; -- . . . as subject to heat as butter." Shak. 3. A waiter. Tatler. Floating kidney. See Wandering kidney, under Wandering. -- Kidney bean , a sort of bean; -- so named from its shape. It is of the genus Phaseolus . See under Bean. -- Kidney ore , a variety of hematite or iron sesquioxide, occurring in compact kidney-shaped masses. -- Kidney stone. See Nephrite, and Jade. -- Kidney vetch , a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia , with cloverlike heads of red or yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders, and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds; lady's-fingers. (more info) belly, womb + OE. nere kidney; akin to D. nier, G. niere, OHG. nioro, Icel. n, Dan. nyre, Sw. njure,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of KIDNEY)

• Kin
• Race
• kindred
• offspring
• kind
• family
• sort
• ilk
• genus
• kidney
• class
• relationship
• consanguinity
• kinsfolk
• blood

Related words: (words related to KIDNEY)

• KINSFOLK
  Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families. They sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. Luke ii. 44.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• CONSANGUINITY
  The relation of person by blood, is distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. Prescott.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• CLASSMATE
  One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• BLOODINESS
  1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
• KINDRED
  d), fr. AS. cunn kin, race + the termination to advise, G. rathen. 1. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. Dryden. 2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former;
• BLOODWORT
  A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot , and to an extensive order of plants , the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.
• BLOODSHOT
  Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.
• BLOODWOOD
  A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood. Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• UNKINDRED
  Not kindred; not of the same kin. Rowe. -- Un*kin"dred*ly, a.
• HALF-BLOODED
  1. Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep. 2. Degenerate; mean.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.