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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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... after his humorous one; and with all his many moral merits, there was much that was stagey about Dickens. But this explanation alone is altogether inadequate and unworthy. There was in Dickens this other kind of energy, horrible, uncanny, barbaric, capable in another age of coarseness, greedy for the emblems of established ugliness, the coffin, the gibbet, the bones, the bloody knife. Dickens liked these ...
— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton
... and dark; not a star twinkled above me; I seemed to have left the habitations of men. In whatever direction I turned not a light was visible; all fellowship with my kind had vanished. No sound broke the unvarying stillness but the heavy plunge of my horse's feet and the hollow moan of the sea. Gradually I began to rouse from my stupor: awaking, as from a dream, my senses grew rapidly conscious of the perils by which I was surrounded. I knew not but some ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... the captain agreed blandly, while Liane confirmed his statement with many rapid and emphatic nods. "Mr. Monk, the owner, is my first cousin. Fortune has been less kind to me in a worldly way; consequently you see in me merely the skipper ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... the painter of many strange and fantastic but often powerful—sometimes very beautiful pictures—wrote poems of an equally remarkable kind. Some of them are as lovely as they are careless, while many present a curious contrast in the apparent incoherence of the simplest language. He was born in 1757, towards the close of the reign of George II. Possibly if he had been sent to an age more capable of understanding him, his genius would ...
— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald
... Caecilius's arms, and bestowing a tremendous cut with it upon the side of the ass, sent him forward upon the plain at his greatest speed. The youth's manoeuvre was successful to the full. The asses of Africa can do more on an occasion of this kind than our own. Caecilius for the moment lost his seat; but, instantly recovering it, took care to keep the animal from flagging; and the cries of the mob, and the howlings of the priests of Cybele cooperated ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman


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