kit

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A set of articles or implements used for a specific purpose: a survival kit; a shaving kit.
2. n. A container for such a set.
3. n. A set of parts or materials to be assembled: a model airplane kit.
4. n. A packaged set of related materials: a sales kit.
5. n. A collection of clothing and other personal effects used for travel.
6. n. A container, such as a bag, valise, or knapsack, for storing or holding such a collection.
7. idiom. the (whole) kit and caboodle Informal The entire collection or lot.
8. n. A kitten.
9. n. A young, often undersized fur-bearing animal.
10. n. A tiny, narrow violin used by dancing masters in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A pail, small tub, box, or chest containing or for holding particular commodities or articles: as, a kit of mackerel; a kit of tools.
2. n. Hence An outfit of necessaries for a trade or occupation, or for some special purpose: as, a traveler's or an angler's kit. A mechanic's kit comprises the tools required for his work; a soldier's or sailor's kit, such personal necessaries as he has to provide at his own cost.
3. n. A basket; especially, a straw or rush basket.
4. n. In photography, a flat rectangular frame fitted into a plate-holder to enable it to carry a plate smaller than the size for which it is made.
5. To pack in kits for market: as, kitted mackerel, as distinguished from barreled mackerel.
6. n. A dialectal and Middle English variant, of cut.
7. n. A family; a brood.
8. n. A kitten.
9. n. A light woman.
10. n. A miniature violin, about sixteen inches long, having three strings. It was once much used by dancing-masters, because it was small enough to be carried iu the pocket, whence its French name pochette.
11. n. A kind of cement.
12. n. A fish, the smear-dab.
13. n. An English fanciers' term for a small flock of pigeons, particularly tumblers.
14. n. A bag or basket woven of native flax, used by the Maoris.

Wiktionary

1. n. kitten
2. n. kit fox
3. n. a kit violin
4. n. a school of pigeons, especially domesticated, trained pigeons
5. n. A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
6. n. A kind of basket made from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket, used as a measure of weight.
7. n. A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack.
8. n. Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.
9. n. A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.
10. n. UK, informal Clothing.
11. n. computing, informal A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
12. v. transitive To assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases.
13. adj. Something which came originally in kit form.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To cut.
2. n. A kitten.
3. n. A small violin.
4. n. A large bottle.
5. n. A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom.
6. n. Prov. Eng. A straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.
7. n. A box for working implements.
8. n. A collection of tools or other objects to be used for a specific purpose, often contained in a box which may be carried conveniently; a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.
9. n. A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. young of any of various fur-bearing animals
2. n. a case for containing a set of articles
3. v. supply with a set of articles or tools
4. n. gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose