hind vs kern

hind

adj
  • Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts). 

  • Backward; to the rear. 

noun
  • A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus. 

  • A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old. 

kern

noun
  • Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter. 

  • A churn. 

  • A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt. 

verb
  • To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules. 

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