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   Sort , n. [F. sorl, L. sors, sortis. See Sort kind.] Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.]
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   By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance].
   Chaucer.
   
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   Let blockish Ajax draw
   The sort to fight with Hector.
   Shak.
   
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   Sort, n. [F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors, sorti, a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See Series, and cf. Assort, Consort, Resort, Sorcery, Sort lot.]
    A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
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   Manner; form of being or acting.
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   Which for my part I covet to perform,
   In sort as through the world I did proclaim.
   Spenser.
   
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   Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them.
   Hooker.
   
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   I'll deceive you in another sort.
   Shak.
   
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   To Adam in what sort
   Shall I appear?
   Milton.
   
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   I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style.
   Dryden.
   
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   Condition above the vulgar; rank. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [Obs.] “A sort of shepherds.” Spenser. “A sort of steers.” Spenser. “A sort of doves.” Dryden. “A sort of rogues.” Massinger.
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   A boy, a child, and we a sort of us,
   Vowed against his voyage.
   Chapman.
   
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   A pair; a set; a suit.
   Johnson.
   
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   pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
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   Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed. -- To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an index.
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   Syn. -- Kind; species; rank; condition. -- Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the same family, or bound together by some natural affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere assemblage. the two words are now used to a great extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we say, that sort of people, that sort of language. 
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   As when the total kind
   Of birds, in orderly array on wing,
   Came summoned over Eden to receive
   Their names of there.
   Milton.
   
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   None of noble sort
   Would so offend a virgin.
   Shak.
   
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   Sort , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sorting.]
   To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
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   Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.
   Sir I. Newton.
   
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   To reduce to order from a confused state.
   Hooker.
   
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   To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
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   Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.
   Bacon.
   
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   She sorts things present with things past.
   Sir J. Davies.
   
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   To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
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   That he may sort out a worthy spouse.
   Chapman.
   
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   I'll sort some other time to visit you.
   Shak.
   
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   To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.]
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   I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.
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   Sort, v. i.
   To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
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   Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.
   Woodward.
   
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   The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.
   Bacon.
   
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   To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
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   They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.
   Bacon.
   
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   Things sort not to my will.
   herbert.
   
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   I can not tell you precisely how they sorted.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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