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Definition of Karait
1. krait [n -S] - See also: krait
Lexicographical Neighbors of Karait
Literary usage of Karait
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
"danced up to karait with the peculiar rocking, swaying motion that he had inherited
from his family. It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1895)
"If Rikki-tikki had only known, he was doing a much more dangerous thing than
fighting Nag, for karait is so small, and can turn so quickly, ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"Of poisonous colubrine snakes, the most notable are the Cobra, the karait ...
which resembles the karait, is harmless, but it would be awkward to mistake a ..."
4. The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages by Horace Kinder Mann, Johannes Hollnsteiner (1914)
"... in the early part of the eleventh century, have encountered the karait Turks
who, along with their khan or king, professed the Nestorian faith.1 If, ..."
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