Kill /(kĭl)/

1. A kiln. [Obs.]

1. A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.

imp. & p. p. Killed; p. pr. & vb. n. Killing

1. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.

   Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words !

2. To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.

   Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares.

3. To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.

   Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him.

4. To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
5. To waste or spend unprofitably; -- usually used of time; as, he killed an hour waiting for the doctor to see him.
6. To cancel or forbid publication of (a report, article, etc.), after it has been written; as, they killed the article after getting threats of a lawsuit.

1. The act of killing.

   “There is none like to me!” says the cub in the pride of his earliest kill.

2. An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.

   If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.