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    Kind , a. [Compar. Kinder ; 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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