Kit

kit n.

[Usenet; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard Unix tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level README file. The more general term distribution may imply that special tools or more stringent conditions on the host environment are required.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

• permit and deny lists
• custom away messages
• non-AOL server option
• buddy list
• chat logging
• chat timestamping
• ICQ mode
• minimizes to the system tray

Kit, v. t. [imp. Kitte.]

To cut. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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Kit, n. [See Kitten.]

A kitten.

Kit fox Zool., a small burrowing fox (Vulpes velox), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox.

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Kit, n. [Gf. AS. cytere harp, L. cithara. Cf. Guitar.]

A small violin.

Grew.

Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance.
Dickens.

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Kit, m. [Cf. D. kit a large bottle, OD. kitte beaker, decanter.]

1.

A large bottle.

2.

A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.

Wright.

3.

straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.

Halliwell.

4.

A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.

5.

A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.

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