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kish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kish \Kish\, n. [Cf. G. kies gravel, pyrites.] (Min.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf Etymology 2
n. The graphite formed incidentally in iron smelting.
Wikipedia
Kish ( Sumerian: Kiš; transliteration: Kiŝ; cuneiform: ; Akkadian: kiššatu) was an ancient city of Sumer in Mesopotamia, considered to have been located near the modern Tell al-Uhaymir in the Babil Governorate of Iraq, some 12 km east of Babylon and 80 km south of Baghdad.
KISH (102.9 FM) is Guam's first all Chamorro Music formatted FM station. They are owned and operated by Inter-Island Communications and is licensed to Hagåtña. The station signed on the air in May 2003.
Kish (קיש qish; Kis, Keis, "bow," "power") (c. 1104 – c. 1029 BC) was the father of the first king of the Israelites, Saul.
Usage examples of "kish".
Moooikill A Aitcha Ha ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.
And far on Kish bank the anchored lightship twinkled, winked at Mr Bloom.
Irish lights, Kish and others, liable to capsize at any moment, rounding which he once with his daughter had experienced some remarkably choppy, not to say stormy, weather.
In the early hours, Holloway and Pete Kish were able to draw enough manila line to replace the hated springlay mooring lines at both bow and stern, leaving only the waist lines still made of springlay.
Captain Pete Kish, his head protruding from the top of the mount, had the Baka in his sights.
I picked Don Puddy who was her senior chief, Jim Larby who ran the other engine room, and Pete Kish who had a brother stationed somewhere in the Tokyo area.
Erech, who succeeded the dynasty of Kish, a city in North Babylonia near the more famous but more recent city Babylon.
She treated him as a servant now, ignoring his cries as she faced the soldiers from Kish and their black swords running with blood.
A farmer from beyond the protection of the moat came to tell the king of Kish of a terrifying encounter on the banks of the Euphrates.
In Kish, he would be executed as a runaway slave if anyone recognized him.
And here was Saladin, his face disfigured like one of the clay masks the priests in Kish would don before they climbed the ziggurat to the gods, his fifteen-year-old body disintegrating before his own eyes, dying in the sands for nothing.
In 1977 artist Ely Kish worked with paleontologist Dale Russell to bring a vanished world to life, the dinosaurs of Western Canada.
Nissaba performs a purification ceremony on him and he receives the following new names and shrines: Duku - 'holy mound' in Sumerian, Hurabtil - an Elamite god, Shushinak - patron god of the Elamite city Susa, Lord of the Secret, Pabilsag - god of the antediluvian city Larak, Nin-Azu - god of Eshunna, Ishtaran - god of Der, Zababa -warrior god of Kish, Lugalbanda - Gilgamesh's father, Lugal-Marada - patron god of Marad, Warrior Tishpak - similar to Nin- Azu, Warrior of Uruk, Lord of the Boundary-Arrow, Panigara - a warrior god, and Papsukkal - vizier of the great gods.
You see, to make absolutely certain that he's caught, I took the liberty of sending a man to Dumuzi, the high priest of Ishtar in Kish.
Since the arrival of Ishtar and her enthronement in the temple, Kish had changed - for the worse.