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kish

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–noun Metallurgy.
1. a mixture of graphite and slag separated from and floating on the surface of molten pig iron or cast iron as it cools.
2. dross on the surface of molten lead.
Origin:
1805–15; < G Kies gravel, pyrites; akin to OE cisel gravel
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Kish

  [kish]
–noun
an ancient Sumerian and Akkadian city: its site is 8 mi. (13 km) east of the site of Babylon in S Iraq.
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Kish   (kĭsh)   
An ancient city of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River valley of present-day central Iraq. Its extensive ruins have yielded valuable archaeological evidence about Sumerian culture.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Kish

a bow. (1.) A Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chr. 23:21; 24:29). (2.) A Benjamite of Jerusalem (1 Chr. 8:30; 9:36). (3.) A Levite in the time of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 29:12). (4.) The great-grandfather of Mordecai (Esther 2:5). (5.) A Benjamite, the son of Abiel, and father of king Saul (1 Sam. 9:1, 3; 10:11, 21; 14:51; 2 Sam. 21:14). All that is recorded of him is that he sent his son Saul in search of his asses that had strayed, and that he was buried in Zelah. Called Cis, Acts 13:21 (R.V., Kish).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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