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Kind   /kaɪnd/   Listen
noun
Kind  n.  
1.
Nature; natural instinct or disposition. (Obs.) "He knew by kind and by no other lore." "Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature."
2.
Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. "Come of so low a kind." "Every kind of beasts, and of birds." "She follows the law of her kind." "Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed."
3.
Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. "How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds!" "There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds." "Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers?"
A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; said loosely or slightingly.
In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money. "Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn."
Synonyms: Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set.


adjective
Kind  adj.  (compar. kinder; superl. kindest)  
1.
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. (Obs.) "It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste."
2.
Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart. "Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault."
3.
Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious. "He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil." "O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind." "A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind."
4.
Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. "Manners so kind, yet stately."
5.
Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
Synonyms: Benevolent; benign; beneficent; bounteous; gracious; propitious; generous; forbearing; indulgent; tender; humane; compassionate; good; lenient; clement; mild; gentle; bland; obliging; friendly; amicable. See Obliging.


verb
Kind  v. t.  To beget. (Obs.)





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... means (in kind and amount) to accomplish the end in view, as determined by the factor of the appropriate ...
— Sound Military Decision • U.s. Naval War College
... the swathing of his collar. And yet there were times, as the most affectionate of his aunts had remarked, when, for a moment or so, he appeared to be almost knowing; and, seeing him walking before her, she had almost taken him for a young man; and sometimes he said something in a settled kind of way that was almost adult. This fondest aunt went on to add, however, that of course, the next minute after one of these fleeting spells, he was sure to be overtaken by his more accustomed moods, when ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... chief attendant, knew all her whims and ways to perfection. According to Rebecca's idea, "she was a peevish, fretful, ill-natured, but kind-hearted creature." Being very tired of her old mistress and heartily sick of bondage, and withal desiring to save her daughter, she ascertained the doings of the Underground Rail Road,—was told about Canada, &c. She therefore ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
... dollars, but we spent fourteen dollars in feasting those who had assisted us. We had now seven feet of ground each, the table could be placed in the centre, and the folding chair offered to a visitor. Mr. Rassam had tried, with success, to whitewash the interior of his hut with a kind of soft white yellowish sandstone, that could be obtained in the vicinity of the Amba; we, therefore, also put our servants to work, but first had the mud walls several times besmeared with cow-dung, in order to make ...
— A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia - With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, - His Country and People • Henry Blanc
... first foreign dress, Go forth to Albion's noble land! Will she not greetings kind express, And warmly ...
— The Trumpeter of Saekkingen - A Song from the Upper Rhine. • Joseph Victor von Scheffel


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