kith, n.
1. Knowledge, acquaintance with something; knowledge communicated, information. Obsolete.
2. Knowledge how to behave; rules of etiquette. Obsolete.
3. The country or place that is known or familiar; one's native land, home; hence gen. country, region, quarter. Obsolete.
4. The persons who are known or familiar, taken collectively; one's friends, fellow-countrymen, or neighbours; acquaintance; in later use sometimes confused with kin: see 5. Obsolete or archaic except as in 5.
5. kith and kin: originally. Country and kinsfolk (see 3); in later use, Acquaintance and kinsfolk, one's friends and relatives; in modern use often taken merely as a pleonastic phrase for Kinsfolk, relatives, family connections. (Formerly sometimes corrupted to kiff and kin.)
kith, v.
Obsolete.
transitive. To make friendly or familiar; reflexive to become acquainted, or associate oneself (with); to greet each other as friends or familiar acquaintances.
KITH is working with heritage groups in Antigonish, Hants and Halifax counties to preserve and digitize the A. F. Church maps and match the map information with existing genealogical records. The goal is to improve our understanding of the history and social relations in nineteenth century Nova Scotia, and make this data publicly accessible.
