Part 512

You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons.

Bacon.

Kin, a. Of the same nature or kind; kinder. "Kin to the king." Shak.

Kin`æ*sod"ic (?), a. (Physiol.) Kinesodic.

||Kin`æs*the"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kinei^n to move + &?; ||perception.] (Physiol.) The perception attendant upon the movements ||of the muscles. Bastian. || Ki"nate (?), n. [Cf. F. kinate. ] (Chem.) See Quinate. [Obsolescent]

Kin"cob (?), n. India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold. -- a. Of the nature of kincob; brocaded. Thackeray.

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.

It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.

Holland.

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.

Goldsmith.

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.

Luke vi 35.

O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.

Waller.

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.

Garrick.

4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. "Manners so kind, yet stately." Tennyson.

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.

Kind, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See Kind, a.] 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.