[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

kind \kind\, n. oe. kinde, cunde, as. cynd. see kind, a.
   1. nature; natural instinct or disposition. obs.
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            he knew by kind and by no other lore. --chaucer.
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            some of you, on pure instinct of nature,
            are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
                                                  --dryden.
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   2. race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or
      humankind. "come of so low a kind." --chaucer.
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            every kind of beasts, and of birds.   --james iii.7.
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            she follows the law of her kind.      --wordsworth.
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            here to sow the seed of bread,
            that man and all the kinds be fed.    --emerson.
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   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.
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            how diversely love doth his pageants play,
            and snows his power in variable kinds  --spenser.
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            there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of
            beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --i
                                                  cor. xv. 39.
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            diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: what was the
            matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not
            rich men philosophers?                --bacon.
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   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.
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            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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see also:
kind a kind of in kind 

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