
Noah Webster
Kit
KIT, noun A large bottle.
1. A small fiddle.
2. A kind of fish-tub, and a milk-pail.
[I know not that this word is used in America.]
KIT'-CAT, noun A term applied to a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies; applied also to a portrait three fourths less than a half length, placed in the club-room.