kite

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A light framework covered with cloth, plastic, or paper, designed to be flown in the wind at the end of a long string or multiple lines, especially for recreation.
• noun A parafoil flown in a similar manner for recreation.
• noun A power kite.
• noun A quadrilateral with two distinct pairs of congruent, adjacent sides.
• noun Any of the light sails of a ship that are used only in a light wind.
• noun Any of various graceful predatory birds of the family Accipitridae, having long pointed wings and often a forked tail.
• noun An instance of check kiting.
• intransitive verb To fly like a kite; soar or glide.
• intransitive verb To get money or credit with a kite.
• intransitive verb To use (a check) in furtherance of a check kiting scheme.

from The Century Dictionary.

• A dialectal variant of kit for cut.
• noun A variety of tumbler, black, with the inner webs of the primaries red or yellow.
• noun Something thrown out as a suggestion to see ‘how the wind blows’—what the condition of public opinion is on a certain subject, or what conclusions may inferentially be drawn.
• noun In geometry, a deltoid: so called by Sylvester from its resemblance to a spear-kite.
• noun The belly.
• To fly a bird-shaped kite over a grouse moor: an English sporting-term. The birds, taking this for a hawk, lie close, until the dogs are near.
• To go or fly with great rapidity or with the ease of a kite: as, to go kiting about.
• To fly commercial “kites”; raise money or gain the temporary use of money by means of accommodation bills, or by borrowed, illegally certified, or worthless checks.
• noun A diurnal bird of prey of the family Falconidæ and subfamily Milvinæ; a glede.
• noun A sharper.
• noun [Prob. so called from its hovering in the air, like the bird so named.] A light frame, usually of wood and covered with paper, constructed for flying in the air by means of a long cord attached.
• noun Nautical, one of the highest and lightest sails; one of the small sails that are usually spread in light winds, and furled in a strong breeze.
• noun The brill. [Local, Eng.]

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb Cant To raise money by “kites;” .
• noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. The belly.
• noun (Zoöl.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
• noun Fig.: One who is rapacious.
• noun A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
• noun (Naut.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
• noun (Geom.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.
• noun Cant Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.
• noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The brill.
• noun (Naut.) A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; -- called also sentry.
• noun (Naut.) See under Flying.
• noun (Zoöl.) an African falcon of the genus Avicida, having some resemblance to a kite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Northern England, Scotland The stomach; belly.
• noun Any of falconiform birds of prey in the subfamily Elaninae of the family Accipitridae with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring.
• noun A lightweight toy or other device carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
• noun A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
• noun geometry A quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair being consecutive.
• noun banking A fraudulent draft, such as a check one drawn on insufficient funds or with altered face value.
• noun astrology A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
• noun slang An aircraft, or aeroplane.
• noun sailing, dated A lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding-sail.
• noun sailing, slang A spinnaker.
• noun US, slang, prison A short letter.
• verb rare, usually with "go" To fly a kite.
• verb To glide in the manner of a kite.