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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.

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"Kind of" Quotes from Famous Books

... the fairies also were so described, and this, too, I found to be the traditional idea regarding the Picts. Here the identification was closer still. Then came the consideration: The fairies lived in hollow hillocks and under the ground: what kind of dwellings are the Picts supposed to have occupied? The answer to this question still further strengthened Mr. Campbell's conjecture. There yet exist numerous underground structures and artificial mounds whose interior shows them ...

— Fians, Fairies and Picts • David MacRitchie

... here, lass: you're not goin' to play me that kind of a trick now! That would be fine! Who's goin' to manage the house? Summer's almost with us now an' you want to leave me ...

— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann

... living filament" (p. 230), or, stated in other words, referring to the warm-blooded animals alone, "one is led to conclude that they have alike been produced from a similar living filament" (p. 236); and again he expresses the conjecture that one and the same kind of living filament is and has been the cause of all organic life (p. 244). It does not follow that he was a "spermist," since he strongly argued against the incasement or "evolution" ...

— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard

... scanty intelligence of your progress and success, or want of it. I respect you for your determination to support yourself, but I don't want you to carry your independence too far. As you have never fitted yourself for any kind of business, I presume your earnings are small. I should not be surprised to hear that you are straitened for money. If you are, don't let your pride prevent your informing me. I can easily send you fifty dollars, for your property was not all lost, and ...

— Walter Sherwood's Probation • Horatio Alger

... old quarter days, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5, though payment was sometimes delayed. [Once he was paid half-yearly; see post, under March 20, 1771.] The expression "bills" was a general term at the time for notes, cheques, and warrants, and no doubt covered some kind of Treasury warrant.' The above information I owe to the kindness of my friend Mr. Leonard H. Courtney, M.P., late Financial Secretary to the Treasury. The 'future favours' are the future payments. His pension was not for ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

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