a town the county of Fife in Scotland, on the firth of Forth, directly opposite to Leith. Here is a manufacture of thread-stockings knit by the women; the men, being chiefly mariners, are employed in coasting ships, in the fishery, or the passage-boats from hence to Leith, from which the town of Kinghorn derives considerable advantage. This place gives a second title to the earl of Strathmore.