kite

“[…] in the great Harris papyrus, […] precise quantities are recorded by weight in terms of the deben (about 2½ oz.) and the qite (¼ oz.) of gold, silver, copper and precious stones, without any reference to their value. […] Five pots of honey were bought for five qite of silver and an ox for five qite of gold.”

“[I]t was found necessary to employ media of exchange, and emmer wheat and silver were both used for this purpose. The latter was particularly favoured, but it was normally treated by weight, being measured in kite (9.53 g) and deben (10 kite) in purely Egyptian contexts, though foreigners such as the Jewish mercenaries at Elephantine could use their own metrological systems.”

“Rising interest rates have kited the cost of housing.”

“[…] when he saw the fuse of the firecracker was lighted, he turned the torch on the powder under the barrel of dried apples, and in a second everything went kiting; the barrel of dried apples with the cat in it went up to the ceiling, the stove was blown over the counter, the cheese box and the old groceryman went with a crash to the back end of the store, the front windows blew out on the sidewalk, the old man rushed out the back door with his whiskers singed and yelled "Fire!"”

“A pharmacist "kited" and "shorted" a significant percentage of prescriptions. "Kiting" refers to the pharmacist's forging upward the number of pills originally prescribed by the physician, charging Medicaid for the increased amount but providing the patient with the originally prescribed quantity.”

“Pharmacists have kited Medicaid prescriptions by raising the number of pills called for on a prescription blank from, say, 100 to 200, and billing Medicaid for the larger amount.”

“I hate it when my knight is kited away from the castle that I'm attacking!”

“If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize.”

“The wind kited us toward shore.”

“Want to go kite with me this weekend?”

“Finally, if you have no one to fly a kite with, you can kite alone.”

“He was convicted of kiting checks and sentenced to two years in prison.”

““An affair of honour!” said O’Flaherty, squaring himself. He smelt powder in everything. “More like an affair of dishonour,” said Toole, buttoning his coat. “He’s been ‘kiting’ all over the town. Nutter can distrain for his rent to-morrow, and Cluffe called him outside the bar to speak with him; put that and that together, sir.””

“Andy also kept a box of that [steel wool] in his cell, although he didn't get it from me—I imagine he kited it from the prison laundry.”

“Little bastards were always trying to kite stuff, particularly the candy and the girly magazines.”

“We spent the afternoon kiting around the bay.”

“If we kited again, it would be very dangerous with the steep slope and the heavy weight crashing on behind us and, in any event, Pat and Dave's kites were ridiculously tangled.”

“They commenced whipping their horses at the base, and, as one of the prisoners expressed it, "they went kiting up the hill, and for nearly a mile after the summit had been gained."”

“Q. The supervisor of a particular district would go around in his carriage. […] They went kiting around for a couple of weeks? A. Yes, sir; for four weeks prior to election. Q. Were the carriages necessary? A. I didn't see any necessity for them.”

“This column action causes the tow line to kite either to the port or the starboard side, […]”

“Prison Hall in Central Hospital was claimed by some patients to be "organized" in the more extensive manner of prisons for the sane. Here, it was claimed, an attendant could be bribed to "kite" a letter or bring in contraband, […]”

“I have been working like a dam mule this morning and just found time to kite you.”