\Kind\, a. [Compar. {Kinder}; 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.
         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}.

\Kind\, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See {Kind}, a.]
1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.]
         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.

\Kind\, v. t. [See {Kin}.]
To beget. [Obs.] --Spenser.