It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth
the kind taste. --Holland.
2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial;
sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he
bore to learning was his fault. --Goldsmith.
3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and
confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining;
benevolent; benignant; gracious.
He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil. --Luke
vi 35.
O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to
the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.
A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick.
4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness,
gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. ``Manners so
kind, yet stately.'' --Tennyson.
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}.
He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer.
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by
kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden.
2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or
humankind. ``Come of so low a kind.'' --Chaucer.
Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7.
She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth.
Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the
kinds be fed. --Emerson.
3. Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety;
description; class; as, there are several kinds of
eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of
government; various kinds of soil, etc.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows
his power in variable kinds ! --Spenser.
There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of
beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I
Cor. xv. 39.
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the
matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not
rich men philosophers ? --Bacon.
{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.
Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.
--Arbuthnot.
Syn: Sort; species; class; genus; nature; style; character;
breed; set.