English Dictionary

kidney

/ˈkɪdni/

noun

An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine. / This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.

The doctor examined my kidney and said it was functioning well.

意味（1）

An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

意味（2）

This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.

意味（3）

(figuratively, dated) Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)

[…] think of that, – a man of my kidney, – think of that, […]

意味（4）

(obsolete, slang) A waiter.

I once more desire my readers to consider that as I cannot keep an ingenious man to go daily to Will's under twopence each day merely for his charges, to White's under sixpence, nor to the Grecian without allowing him some plain Spanish, to be as able as others at the learned table; and that a good observer cannot speak with even Kidney at St. James's without clean linen; […]