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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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"Kind" Quotes from Famous Books



... the men, had breakfasted. A species of sullen discontent pervaded the ship, and the recent kind feelings toward Raoul Yvard had nearly vanished in disappointment. Some began to grumble about the chances of the other ships falling in with the lugger, while others swore "that it mattered not who saw her; catch her none could, who had not an illicit understanding with the Father of ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... he was stubborn as a mule about trifles which did not in the least concern him, but as regarded the affairs of every-day life he was on the whole pleasant and easy-going, more especially when nothing occurred to put him out. When anything of the kind did occur, he could certainly assume the attitude of an ugly customer, and on such occasions the wound on his cheek put on a lurid hue which was not pleasant to contemplate. His ordinary discourse mainly dealt with the events of his everyday life. It was ...
— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent
... cousin visiting there, was taken, and two days later still, the three remaining well children were sent out one afternoon for a drive with Grandpa in the Dayton-wagon, an old-time version of the present-day station wagon. We thought it was kind of strange to go to drive in the rain, but it wasn't really raining hard, so we stopped where the Cathedral Close is now and picked bluets and violets. When we got home we were told we had a new little brother! Wildly excited, we rushed upstairs and assaulted ...
— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker
... friend Khiamull! It seems to me that a girl of the kind I've mentioned is by no means to ...
— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... gross matter she abstracts their forms, And draws a kind of quintessence from things, Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge


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