Part 516

Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth.

2. A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great kindness.

Syn. -- Good will; benignity; grace; tenderness; compassion; humanity; clemency; mildness; gentleness; goodness; generosity; beneficence; favor.

Kin"dred (?), n. [OE. kinrede, kynrede, kunreden (with excrescent d), fr. AS. cynn kin, race + the termination -rden, akin to AS. rdan to advise, G. rathen. Cf. Hatred.] 1. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.

Like her, of equal kindred to the throne.

Dryden.

2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.

I think there's no man is secure But the queen's kindred.

Shak.

Syn. -- Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations; relationship; affinity.

Kin"dred, a. Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.

True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

Wordsworth.

Kine (?), n. pl. [For older kyen, formed like oxen, fr. AS. c&?;, itself pl. of c&?; cow. See Cow, and cf. Kee, Kie.] Cows. "A herd of fifty or sixty kine." Milton.

{ Kin`e*mat"ic (?), Kin`e*mat"ic*al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to kinematics.

Kinematic curves, curves produced by machinery, or a combination of motions, as distinguished from mathematical curves.

Kin`e*mat"ics (?), n. [Gr. (&?;), (&?;) motion, fr. kinei^n to move.] (Physics) The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.

Kinematics forms properly an introduction to mechanics, as involving the mathematical principles which are to be applied to its data of forces. Nichol.

Kine"pox` (?), n. (Med.) See Cowpox.

Kin"e*scope (&?;), n. See Kinetoscope.

Kin`e*si*at"rics (?), n. [Gr. (&?;) motion (fr. kinei^n to move) + (&?;) pertaining to medicine, fr. (&?;) a physician.] (Med.) A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; -- also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure.

Kin`e*sip"a*thy (?), n. [Gr. &?; motion + pa`qos suffering.] (Med.) See Kinesiatrics.

Kin`e*si*ther"a*py (?), n. [Gr. &?; motion + &?; to heal.] (Med.) See Kinesiatrics.

Kin`e*sod"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; motion + &?; way: cf. F. kinésodigue.] (Physiol.) Conveying motion; as, kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly.

Ki*net"ic (?), q. [Gr. &?;, from kinei^n to move.] (Physics) Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent.

Kinetic energy. See Energy, n. 4.

Ki*net"ics (?), n. (Physics) See Dynamics.