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Kind (kīnd), a. [Compar. Kinder (kīndˈẽr); superl. Kindest.] [AS. cynde, gecynde, natural, innate, prop. an old p. p. from the root of E. kin. See Kin kindred.]
1. Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste. Holland.
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2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, “a kind man; a kind heart.”
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Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith.
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3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
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He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil. Luke vi 35.
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O cruel Death, to those you take more kind
Than to the wretched mortals left behind. Waller.
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A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick.
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4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, “a kind act”. “Manners so kind, yet stately.” Tennyson.
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5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, “a horse kind in harness”.
Syn. -- Benevolent; benign; beneficent; bounteous; gracious; propitious; generous; forbearing; indulgent; tender; humane; compassionate; good; lenient; clement; mild; gentle; bland; obliging; friendly; amicable. See Obliging.
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Kind, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See Kind, a.]
1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.]
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He knew by kind and by no other lore. Chaucer.
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Some of you, on pure instinct of nature,
Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. Dryden.
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2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, “in mankind or humankind”. “Come of so low a kind.” Chaucer.
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Every kind of beasts, and of birds. James iii.7.
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She follows the law of her kind. Wordsworth.
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Here to sow the seed of bread,
That man and all the kinds be fed. Emerson.
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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.”
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How diversely Love doth his pageants play,
And snows his power in variable kinds ! Spenser.
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There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. I Cor. xv. 39.
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Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? Bacon.
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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.
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Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. Arbuthnot.
Syn. -- Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set.
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Kind, v. t. [See Kin.] To beget. [Obs.] Spenser.
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