KID,

The young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid in the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Ex. 23:19; 34:26; Deut. 14:21). Among the various reasons assigned for this law, that appears to be the most satisfactory which regards it as “a protest against cruelty and outraging the order of nature.” A kid cooked in its mother’s milk is “a gross, unwholesome dish, and calculated to kindle animal and ferocious passions, and on this account Moses may have forbidden it. Besides, it is even yet associated with immoderate feasting; and originally, I suspect,” says Dr. Thomson (Land and the Book), “was connected with idolatrous sacrifices.”

[Goat]

KID, Jud 14:6, or the young of the goat, was among the luxuries of the ancients, Gen 38:17; Jud 6:19; 1 Sam 16:20, and is now esteemed a great delicacy by Eastern nations. Kids were among the sacrificial offerings. Num 7:11-87.

KID, Jud 14:6, or the young of the goat, was among the luxuries of the ancients, Gen 38:17; Jud 6:19; 1 Sam 16:20, and is now esteemed a great delicacy by Eastern nations. Kids were among the sacrificial offerings. Num 7:11-87.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A young goat. The . . . leopard shall lie down with the kid. Is. xi. 6 .

2. A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on. [Slang] Charles Reade.

3. A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.

4. Gloves made of kid. [Colloq. & Low]

5. A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. Cooper.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To bring forth a young goat.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

See Kiddy, v. t. [Slang]

Part of speech: participle (p.)

of Kythe. [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.