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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Kind \Kind\ (k[imac]nd), a. [Compar. {Kinder} (k[imac]nd"[~e]r); 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. [1913 Webster] It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste. --Holland. [1913 Webster] 2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart. [1913 Webster] Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious. [1913 Webster] He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil. --Luke vi 35. [1913 Webster] O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller. [1913 Webster] A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick. [1913 Webster] 4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. "Manners so kind, yet stately." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 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}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Kind \Kind\, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See {Kind}, a.] 1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. "Come of so low a kind." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7. [1913 Webster] She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. --Emerson. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds ! --Spenser. [1913 Webster] There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I Cor. xv. 39. [1913 Webster] Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? --Bacon. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. --Arbuthnot. Syn: Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Kind \Kind\, v. t. [See {Kin}.] To beget. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: kind adj 1: having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior; "kind to sick patients"; "a kind master"; "kind words showing understanding and sympathy"; "thanked her for her kind letter" [ant: {unkind}] 2: agreeable, conducive to comfort; "a dry climate kind to asthmatics"; "the genial sunshine";"hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet" [syn: {kind}, {genial}] 3: tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke" [syn: {kind}, {tolerant}] n 1: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" [syn: {kind}, {sort}, {form}, {variety}] From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: kind cheek From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Kind /kint/ child; infant; kid; kiddy From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: kind /kint/ 1. child; offspring; young 2. bairn; child; infant 3. child From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]: kind cheek