From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth
the kind taste. --Holland.
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2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial;
sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
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Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was his fault.
--Goldsmith.
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3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and
confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining;
benevolent; benignant; gracious.
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He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil. --Luke
vi 35.
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O cruel Death, to those you take more kind
Than to the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.
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A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick.
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4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness,
gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. "Manners so
kind, yet stately." --Tennyson.
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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.
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From 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Kind \Kind\, v. t. [See Kin.]
To beget. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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