Word Meanings - KILKENNYCATS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Two cats fabled, in an Irish story, to have fought till nothing was left but their tails. It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown, which impoverished both towns.

• Locality
  The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
• Story-teller
  One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Foughten
  p. p. of Fight.
• Localization
  Act of localizing, or state of being localized.
• Story-telling
  Being accustomed to tell stories.
• Impoverished
  of Impoverish
• Localized
  of Localize
• Story-writer
  One who writes short stories, as for magazines.
• Contested
  of Contest
• Impoverishing
  of Impoverish
• Localizing
  of Localize
• Tailstock
  The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
• Contesting
  of Contest
• Impoverish
  To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
• Localize
  To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.

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