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noun

Kin n. (Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.

Kin n.

Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

Relatives; persons of the same family or race. "The father, mother, and the kin beside." "You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons."

Kine, Kin n. (Physics) The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system a velocity of one centimeter per second.

adjective

Kin adj. Of the same nature or kind; kinder. "Kin to the king."

suffix

-kin suff. A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

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Etymology of 'Kin'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kin" Quotes from Famous Books

... and I had played As boy and girl, and later, youth and maid, Full half our lives together. He had been, Like me, an orphan; and the roof of kin Gave both kind shelter. Swift years sped away Ere change was felt: and then one summer day A long lost uncle sailed from India's shore— Made Roy his heir, and he ...

— Maurine and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... the close, the low-born lover, assisted by Squire Allworthy, who is a deus ex machina a trifle too good for human nature's daily food, gets his girl (in imitation of Joseph Andrews) and is shown to be close kin to Allworthy—tra-la-la, tra-la-lee, it is all charmingly simple and easy! The beginners of the English novel had only a few little tricks in their box in the way of incident and are for the most part innocent of plot in the Wilkie Collins sense of the word. The opinion of Coleridge that the "Oedipus ...

— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton

... disconcerting their plans—supposing them to have any—and enabling us to attack them while assembled in force. It is the nature of savages to scatter, and so to puzzle trained forces,—and no doubt those of his Majesty are well trained. But 'one touch of nature makes the whole world kin,' says a great authority; and it is wonderful how useful a knowledge of the various touches of nature is in the art of war. It may not have occurred to Mr Montague that savages have a tendency to love and protect their wives and children as well ...

— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader • R.M. Ballantyne

... seven volumes, in 1879, "Gleanings of Past Years." The essay entitled "Kin Beyond the Sea" at first created much excitement. "The Kin Beyond the Sea" was America, of which he says: "She will probably become what we are now, the head servant in the great household of the world, the employer of all employed; because her services will ...

— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook

... assumed this ex-hero of our comedy might yet appear. Then we learned that Emma was to be married without delay from the stone manor house under the Taconics where her people had dwelt since patroon days. Only a handful of friends with Crocker's nearest kin and her inevitable New York aunts were to be present. These venerable ladies had admitted that in marrying, even opulently, out of the family, Emma had once more shown velleities of self-sacrifice. Then we heard of Crocker ...

— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather

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