1. to remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) in preparation for printing.
2. to form or furnish with a kern, as a type or letter.

3. a part of the face of a type projecting beyond the body or shank, as in certain italic letters.

1. the central area of any horizontal section of a wall, column, etc., within which the resultant forces of all compressive loads must pass if there is to be only compression at that point.

1. a band of lightly armed foot soldiers of ancient Ireland.
2. (in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) a soldier.
3. an Irish peasant, especially a crude or boorish one.

1. (of a tree or plant) to produce or form kernels, hard grain, or seed.

2. to cause to granulate, especially to granulate salt.
3. to cover with crystalline grains of salt; salt (meat).

4. a kernel, as of a nut; a grain, as of sand or wheat.

1. churn.

1. kirn².

1. U.S. composer.
2. a river in E California, in the Sierra Nevada, flowing S and SW to San Joaquin Valley. 155 miles (249 km) long.

1. the part of the character on a piece of printer's type that projects beyond the body

2. to furnish (a typeface) with a kern

1. a lightly armed foot soldier in medieval Ireland or Scotland
2. a troop of such soldiers
3. a loutish peasant

1. the central area of a wall, column, etc, through which all compressive forces pass

1. Jerome (David). 1885–1945, US composer of musical comedies, esp Show Boat (1927)

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