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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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... domestic servant, who has lived on kindly terms with the gentry and shared their standards. And for years after their marriage Hurd had allowed her to govern him. He had been so patient, so hard-working, such a kind husband and father, so full of a dumb wish to show her he was grateful to her for marrying such a fellow as he. The quarrel with Westall seemed to have sunk out of his mind. He never spoke to or of him. Low wages, the burden of quick-coming children, the bad sanitary conditions of their ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... hand—resolving also to use it with a stout heart. Then he advanced toward the snake, which was comparatively quiescent—that portion of its long body which hung between the tree and the first coil that it made round the beauteous form of Nisida alone moving; and this motion was a waving kind of oscillation, like that of a bell-rope which a person holds by the end ...
— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds
... "You are very kind, Christian," said Uncle Bernard with tears in his eyes. "Give me a potato, and then I will go to bed. I am more tired than anything else. I am not hungry. One hot potato will be quite ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
... in Cornwall, we find it a common opinion of the vulgar, that about Midsummer-Eve (though in the time they do not all agree) it is usual for snakes to meet in companies; and that, by joining heads together, and hissing, a kind of bubble is formed, which the rest, by continual hissing, blow on till it passes quite through the body, and then it immediately hardens, and resembles a glass-ring, which whoever finds (as some old women and children are persuaded) ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... sake, Men marry: women are in marriage given The churl or ruffian, that in wealth has thriven, May match his offspring with the proudest race: Thus everything is mix'd, noble and base! If then in outward manner, form, and mind, You find us a degraded, motley kind, Wonder no more, my friend! the cause is plain, And to ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin


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