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| 1. n. A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae belonging to one of the following groups: |  |
| 2. n. Any bird of subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring. | |
| 3. n. A bird of genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering. Also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elani | |
| 4. n. Some species in the subfamily Perninae | |
| A pair of kites built a nest on the cliff. | |
| 5. n. A lightweight toy or other device carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines. | |
| On windy spring days, we would fly kites. | |
| 6. n. A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium. | |
| 7. n. (geometry) A quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair being consecutive. | |
| Four-sided figures without parallel sides include trapezoids and kites. | |
| 8. n. (banking) A fraudulent draft, such as a check one drawn on insufficient funds or with altered face value. | |
| 9. n. (astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet. | |
| 10. n. (slang) An aircraft, or aeroplane. | |
| 11. n. (sailing, dated) A lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding-sail. | |
| 12. n. (sailing, slang) A spinnaker. | |
| 13. n. (US, slang) A short letter. | |
| 14. n. (figurative) A rapacious person. | |
| 15. n. (dialect) A fish, the brill. | |
| 16. n. (cycling, slang) A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents. | |
| 17. v. (rare, usually with "go") To fly a kite. | |
| I'm going kiting this weekend. | |
| 18. v. To glide in the manner of a kite. | |
| The wind kited us toward shore. | |
| 19. v. To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing. | |
| We spent the afternoon kiting around the bay. | |
| 20. v. To toss or cast. | |
| 21. v. (banking, ambitransitive) To write a check on an account with insufficient funds, expecting that funds will become available by the time the check clears. | |
| He was convicted of kiting checks and sentenced to two years in prison. | |
| 22. v. (US) To cause an increase, especially in costs. | |
| Rising interest rates have kited the cost of housing. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, video games) To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger. | |
| 24. v. (nautical, engineering) To deflect sideways in the water. | |
| 25. v. , passage=This column action causes the tow line to kite either to the port or the starboard side, (...) | |
| 26. v. (US, slang) To send a short letter. | |
| 27. v. (US, slang) To steal. | |
| 28. v. (obsolete) To hunt with a hawk. | |
| 29. n. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The stomach; belly. | |
| 30. n. (rare) A weight-measure unit from Ancient Egypt, equivalent to 0.1 deben (about 9.1 grams) | |
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