Part 6258

<blockquote>It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the <b>kind</b> taste. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; <as>as, a <ex>kind</ex> man; a <ex>kind</ex> heart.</as></def>

<blockquote>Yet was he <b>kind</b>, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.</def>

<blockquote>He is <b>kind</b> unto the unthankful and to evil. <i>Luke vi 35.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>O cruel Death, to those you take more <b>kind</b> Than to the wretched mortals left behind. <i>Waller.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A fellow feeling makes one wondrous <b>kind</b>. <i>Garrick.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; <as>as, a <ex>kind</ex> act</as>.</def> "Manners so <i>kind</i>, yet stately."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Gentle; tractable; easily governed; <as>as, a horse <ex>kind</ex> in harness</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Benevolent; benign; beneficent; bounteous; gracious; propitious; generous; forbearing; indulgent; tender; humane; compassionate; good; lenient; clement; mild; gentle; bland; obliging; friendly; amicable. See <er>Obliging</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Kind</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>kinde</ets>, <ets>cunde</ets>, AS. <ets>cynd</ets>. See <er>Kind</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Nature; natural instinct or disposition.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He knew by <b>kind</b> and by no other lore. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by <b>kind t'</b>admire your fellow-creature. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Race; genus; species; generic class; <as>as, in man<ex>kind</ex> or human<ex>kind</ex></as>.</def> "Come of so low a <i>kind</i>."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>Every <b>kind</b> of beasts, and of birds. <i>James iii.7.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>She follows the law of her <b>kind</b>. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the <b>kinds</b> be fed. <i>Emerson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; <as>as, there are several <ex>kinds</ex> of eloquence, of style, and of music; many <ex>kinds</ex> of government; various <ex>kinds</ex> of soil, etc.</as></def>

<blockquote>How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable <b>kinds</b> ! <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>There is one <b>kind</b> of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. <i>I Cor. xv. 39.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Diogenes was asked in a <b>kind</b> of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers ? <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>A kind of</col>, <cd>something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly.</cd> <col>In kind</col>, <cd>in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>Tax on tillage was often levied <b>in kind</b> upon corn. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Sort; species; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set.</syn>

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