KIDNEY

KID'NEY (longing?). The leaf-fat around the kidneys of sacrifices was to be burned. Ex 29:13, etc. The supposed seat of desire. Job 19:27 (margin); Ps 7:9, etc. See Reins. Used also for kernels of wheat, from their shape and richness. Deut 32:14.

KID'NEY (longing?). The leaf-fat around the kidneys of sacrifices was to be burned. Ex 29:13, etc. The supposed seat of desire. Job 19:27 (margin); Ps 7:9, etc. See Reins. Used also for kernels of wheat, from their shape and richness. Deut 32:14.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.

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.

3. A waiter. [Old Cant] Tatler. Floating kidney. See Wandering kidney, under Wandering. -- Kidney bean (Bot.), a sort of bean; -- so named from its shape. It is of the genus Phaseolus (P. vulgaris). See under Bean. -- Kidney ore (Min.), a variety of hematite or iron sesquioxide, occurring in compact kidney-shaped masses. -- Kidney stone. (Min.) See Nephrite, and Jade. -- Kidney vetch (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia (Anthyllis vulneraria), 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.