| king's highway | |
| —n | |
| (in Britain, esp when the sovereign is male) any public road or right of way | |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |