Kidney
['kɪdnɪ] or ['kɪdni]
Definition
(noun.) either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine; 'urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder'.
Typed by Blanche--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
(n.) Habit; disposition; sort; kind.
(n.) A waiter.
Editor: Miles
Definition
n. one of two flattened glands on each side of the loins which secrete the urine: temperament humour disposition—hence sort or kind as in 'of the same kidney ' &c.—ns. Kid′ney-bean a kind of bean shaped like a kidney; Kid′ney-potā′to one of various kidney-shaped varieties of the common potato; Kid′ney-vetch a genus of leguminous plants the only British species being called Lady's Fingers; Kid′ney-wort a plant of the genus Saxifrage.
Editor: Ryan
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream about your kidneys, foretells you are threatened with a serious illness, or there will be trouble in marriage relations for you. If they act too freely, you will be a party to some racy intrigue. If they refuse to perform their work, there will be a sensation, and to your detriment. If you eat kidney-stew, some officious person will cause you disgust in some secret lover affair.
Typist: Loretta
Examples
- Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This is the one furnished by Warner for Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Make an oblong pad and wear over the kidneys. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Some devilled kidneys and a herring--let's say. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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