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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Kind \Kind\, noun [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See {Kind}, adjective]
1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.]
He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer.
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden.
2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. "Come of so low a kind." --Chaucer.
Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7.
She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth.
Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. --Emerson.
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 ! --Spenser.
There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I Cor. xv. 39.
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? --Bacon.
{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. --Arbuthnot.
Syn: Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set.
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