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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