kin 
Ny ki/n he is to King off Norway, 
Km <>t Mrlusi ..... lisrmdi'd :ill tlliiy. 
Hiini. nf I'nrlrnnii (K. K. T. S.X 1. 0278. 
Because alif's kin to me, therefore she's not so fnfr as 
Helen. >/<-., T. and 0., i. 1, 70. 
2. Of the same kind 01- nature; having affinity. 
Hi, 
:t do I not use . . . any such proverb, so little kin to 
purpose. A*/*.. Hen. V., ill. 7, 71. 
Melissa hitting all we saw with shafts 
in nil- -;iiire, kin to chanty. 
Tfiinystm, Princess, ii. 
kin'-' (kin), [A dial, (nnassibilated) var. of 
r/i/Hfl.] A chap or chilblain. fProv. Eng.] 
kin :1 (kin), M. [Chin.] A weight, m use in China 
and Japan, equal to 601.043 grams, or nearly 
Ii pounds avoirdupois ; a catty. 
kin* (kin), n. [Chin.] A Chinese musical in- 
strument, of very ancient origin, having from 
live to twenty-five silken strings. It is played 
like a lute. 
-kin. [< ME. -kin (rarely -ken), much used in 
forming diminutives of proper names, as Daw- 
kin, llnirkin, Hopkin, Timkiii, Tomkiii, etc. (many 
of which exist as surnames in the orig. poss. 
form -kins, as Dawkins, Hatckiiix, Tomkiits or 
Tompkins, etc.); not found in AS., and prob. of 
D. origin: < D. -ken = LG. -ken = OHG. -kin, 
-chin, MHG. -kin, -often, G. -clien, a compound 
dim. suffix, < -fc + -in, orig. -in, now, in the sim- 
ple form, -en (see -en 3 ).] A diminutive suffix, at- 
tached to nouns to signify a little object of the 
kind mentioned: as, lambkin, a little lamb; pip- 
kin, a little pipe ; catkin, a little cat, etc. As ap- 
plied to persons it usually conveys contempt, as in lordkin. 
It is sometimes preceded by a short vowel, as in canakin 
or cannikin, manakin or manikin, bootikin, etc. In the ob- 
solete budikin, ladikin (lakin), etc., the diminutive form is 
due to tlie tendency to mince oaths. In many words, as 
liinniikin, buskin, firkin, yriskin, kilderkin, malkin, napkin, 
siskin, etc., the diminutive force is for various reasons (but 
chiefly because most of them are not of original English 
formation) not now perceived. In finikin the suffix is 
adjectival. In liwlkin, yherlcin, pumpkin, and some other 
words the termination requires special explanation: see 
their etymology. 
kinaesthesia (kin-es-the'si-a), . [< Gr. Ktvelv, 
move, + alathiaii;, perception.] The muscular 
sense ; the sense of muscular effort. Also kiit- 
esthe.fid, kiiuvsthcxis, kinesthcyis. 
kinaesthetic, a. See kinesthetic. 
kinate (kin'at), . [= F. kinate; as kin(ic) + 
-rtte 1 .] A salt of kinic acid. 
kinbotet, ' An obsolete variant of eynebot. 
kinch't, [Early mod. E. also kintch; < ME. 
kyiich, a bundle; perhaps a transposed form of 
knitch, q. v.] A bundle: same as knitch. 
A kintch of wood, fascis. Levins, Manip. Vocab., p. 150. 
kinch- (kiuch), n. Same as kcnch. 
kinchin (kin'chin), n. [Formerly also kynenin, 
kync-hen; < MD. kindeken, kinneken (= MLG. 
kindekin, LG. kindken, kinneken = G. kindclien), 
a little child (also in D., a little tun, kilderkin: 
see kilderkin), < kind, child, + dim. -ken : see 
child and -kin.] A child. [Thieves' slang.] 
Kinchin lay, the robbing of children (see the extract) ; 
hence, a minor rOle among professional thieves. IThieves' 
slang.] 
"Ain't there any other line open?" "Stop," said the 
Jew, laying his hand on Noah's knee. " The ihn-liin lay." 
"What's that?" demanded Mr. Claypole. "The kinchins, 
my dear," said the Jew, "is the young children that's sent 
on errands by their mothers, with sixpences and shillings, 
and the lay is just to take their money away." 
Dickens, Oliver Twist, xll. 
"The detective business," which is, at the best, the Wn- 
<:Ai lay of ttction. The Academy, Sept. 29, 1888, p. 208. 
kinchin-covet, kinchin-cot (kin'chin-kov, -ko), 
n. A youth not thoroughly instructed in vaga- 
bond knavery. Halliwell. [Thieves' slang.] 
kinchin-mortt (kin'chiu-mdrt), . Achild,gen- 
erally a girl a year or two old, carried on the 
back by professional beggar-women. [Thieves' 
slang.] 
The times are sair altered since I was a kinchin mart. 
Scott, Guy Mannering, xxviii. 
kincob (kin'kob), n. [Auglo-Ind., < Hind, kim- 
klurab, Guzarathi femfeM&.J A rich stuff made 
in India with silk or silk and cotton and a free 
use of gold thread, silver thread, or both. Also 
kinkhnb. 
Sandal-wood \\-orkboxes and kincob scarfs. Thackeray. 
Stolen out of the house of Mr. Peter Paggcn in Love 
Lane near Eastcheap, . . . One Isabella colour Kincob 
Gown flowered with Green and Gold. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[I. 17. 
kind 1 (kind), a. [< ME. kinde, kynde, kiinde, in 
earliest form ionide, < AS. i/n-i/iiilr, very rarely 
without the prelix, ci/iidr, natural, inborn, < </<-, 
a generalizing prefix, + "cinid, used only as a 
sutlix. -1'iiinl, born, of a particular nat tire (as in 
i/ixlcinid, of the nature of God, divine), native, 
207 
3287 
natural, = Goth, -kunds, born (cf. Icel. kundr, 
son); with orig. pp. suffix -(/ (see -cd 2 ), from 
the vrrli represented by the secondary (causal) 
form, AS. ceiiiiini, obs. K. km, bi-gct, bring forth, 
ulienre also I he noun, AS. <//, K. kin ] : see kin I . 
ken 2 . Hence the noun A'iMfrVl-v.] It. Native; 
natural; characteristic; proper to the genus, 
species, or individual. 
How kiiute and proplr it is to thee, 
< hi s\ nt 11! men that tit thee calle, 
tin hem to haue mercy and pltee. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. FurnlvallX p. 188. 
How sholde a plaunte, or lyves creature, 
Lyve wlthoute his kynde noriture? 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 768. 
It bcconieth sweeter than It should be, and loseth the 
Wild taste. Holland. 
2. Of a sympathetic nature or disposition ; be- 
neficently disposed ; good -hearted; considerate 
and tender in the treatment of others ; benevo- 
lent; benignant. 
He Is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 
Luke vi. K. 
I must be cruel, only to be kind. 
Shak., Hamlet, lit 4, 177. 
The kindest and the happiest pah- 
Will tlnd occasion to forbear. 
Cotrper, Mutual Forbearance. 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood. 
Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 
3. Loving; affectionate; full of tenderness; ca- 
ressing. 
The great care of goods at random left 
Drew me from kiitd embracements of my spouse. 
Shak., C. of E., i. 1, 44. 
Do lovers dream, or Is my Delia kind! 
Pope, Autumn, L 52. 
Oh, the woods and the meadows, 
Woods where we hid from the wet, 
Stiles where we stay'd to be kind, 
Meadows in which we met ! 
Tennyson, The Window, xi. 
4. Marked by sympathetic feeling; proceed- 
ing from goodness of heart; amiable; oblig- 
ing; considerate: as, a kind act; kind treat- 
ment ; kind regards. 
Well visit Caliban, my slave, who never 
Yields ua kind answer. Shak. , Tempest, 1. 2, 307. 
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds 
With coldness still returning. 
Wordsworth, Simon Lee. 
5. Of a favorable character or quality; propi- 
tious; serviceable; adaptable; tractable: as, 
kind weather; a horse kind in harness. 
The elements be kind to thee. 
Shak., A. and C., ill. 2, 40. 
Gabriel Plats takes care to distinguish what hay is kind- 
est for sheep. Boyle, Works, VI. 857. 
Since he began to wander forth 
Among the mountain-peaks, the region round 
Hag had the kindest seasons. 
Bryant, Tale of Clondland. 
Kind Witt, mother- wit ; natural or common sense. 
So grace is a gyfte of God and kynde iritt a chaunce, 
And cleregye and connyng of kynde irittes techynge. 
Piers Plowman (CX xv. 38. 
= Syn. 2 and 3. Gracious, Goodnatured, etc. (see benig- 
nant); Kindly, etc. (seekindly); benign, beneficent, boun- 
teous, generous, indulgent, tender, humane, compassion- 
ate, good, lenient, element, mild, gentle, bland, friendly, 
amicable. 
kind' 2 (kind), n. [< ME. kinde, kynde, kynd, 
kende, kunde, cunde, or (earliest form) icunde, < 
AS. gecynd, neut., orig. fern, (also rarely ge- 
cynde, fem., and gecyndu, fern.; rarely and er- 
roneouslywithout the prefix.eynd, kind, nature), 
< ge-, a generalizing or collective prefix (see -), 
+ *cund, used only as a suffix, -cund, born, na- 
tive, natural: see kind 1 . The noun kind? is thus 
ult., though not directly, from the adj. kind 1 ."] 
If. Nature; natural constitution or character. 
With synne we ban defoulid cure kinde, 
And /,////-' may we not eschewe : 
To wraththe thee, God, we ben rnkinde ; 
Thou kindeli king, we hen vntrewe ! 
Hymns to Viryin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 20. 
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, 
Are led by kind t admire your fellow-creature. 
Dryden. 
2f. Natural disposition, propensity, bent, or 
characteristic. 
The bee has three kyndis. Ane es that scho es neuer 
ydill. Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.X p. 8. 
The kinde of chlldhode y dide also. 
With my felawis to fljtc and threte. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 83. 
3f. Natural descent. 
That [he] schal be emperour after him of heritage bt kynde . 
William of Palcrne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1446. 
4. A class ; a sort ; a species ; a number of indi- 
vidual objects having common characters pecu- 
kind 
liar to them. [The word claim has to a consider- 
able t-xtent supplnntecl kind.] 
Then schalle s<-he turne azen to hire nwne Kynde, and 
In n :i Woman aen. MandecUle, Travel*, p. 23. 
God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cat- 
tle after tuciriind, and every thing that ei eepeth upon the 
earth after his kind. Gen. L 25. 
Down he alights among the sportful herd 
Of those four-footed kinds. Milton, P. L. , Iv. 397. 
And the Christ of God to tlnd 
In the humblest of thy kiiut. 
Whittiar, Curse of Charter-Breakers. 
What kind of tales did men tell men. 
She wonder'd, by themselves? 
Tennyson, Princess, ProL 
Whether strong or wak. 
Far from his kind he neither sank nor soared, 
But sate an equal guest at every board. 
LowtU, Agassii, it 2. 
Accordingly, the classes which are in some sense entitled 
to the name of Kinds, inasmuch as the objects composing 
them are really connected in nature by so genuine a bond 
as that of community of origin, are nevertheless loosely 
denned, and may narrow or widen, or be lost entirely, ac- 
cording to the direction and extent of the lines along 
which their origin may be Imagined to be traced. 
F. and C. L. franklin, Mind, XIII. 84. 
5. In a loose use, a variety ; a particular varia- 
tion or variant: as, a kind of low fever. See 
kind of, below. 
I have a kind of alacrity In sinking. 
Shak., M. W. of W., ill 5, 18. 
6t. Gender; sex. 
And be twyne every of the Pagents went lityll chfldern 
of both kynds, gloriusly and rechely Dressed. 
Torkington, Dlarle of Eng. Travel], p. 14. 
This princess of the North 
Surpasses all of female kind 
In beauty, and In worth. 
The Laidley Worm of Sjrindleston-hevgh (Child's Ballads, 
7. Specific manner or way ; method of action 
or operation. 
Dumb Jewels often, in their silent kind, 
More than quick words do move a woman's mind. 
5/w*., T. G. of V., iii. 1, 90. 
I have been consulted with. 
In this high kiiul, touching some great men's sons. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, IL I. 
Men that live according to the right rule and law of 
reason, live but in their own kind, as beasts do in theirs. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, 1. 64. 
We will take nothing from you, neither meat, drinke, nor 
lodging, but what we will, in one kind or other, pay you 
for. Weston, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, 
[p. 121. 
Being mirthful he, but in a stately kind. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
8t. Race ; family ; stock ; descent ; a line of in- 
dividuals related as parent or ancestor and 
child or descendant. 
Porchase . . . indulgences ynowe, and be Ingrat to thy 
kynde; 
The holygost huyreth the nat. Piers Plowman (CX ix. 219. 
Comen of so lough a kynde. 
Chaucer, Wile of Bath's Tale, 1. 246. 
She's such a one, that, were I well assured 
Came of a gentle kind and noble stock, 
I'd wish no better choice. Shak. , Pericles, v. 1, 89. 
9t. Blood-relationship. 
That, nature, blood, and laws of kind forbid. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, 11. 1. 
Communion in one kind. Same as half-communion. 
In a kind, In a way ; to some extent ; In some degree ; 
after a fashion. 
My paper is, in a kind, a letter of newa. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 468. 
In kind, with matter or things of the same kind, or of 
the kind produced or possessed, instead of money : said 
of payment: as, a loan of bullion or of stocks to be re- 
turned in kind; to pay rent, etc., in kind (that Is, with 
products of the soil, or with the merchandise produced 
or dealt In). 
Tythes are more paid in kind in England than in all 
Italy and France. Sclden, Table-Talk, p. 109. 
The tar upon tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. 
ArbuthiHit. Ancient Coins. 
Kind of (also sort of) runs into certain marked idioms. 
It is used with a following noun to express something 
like or resembling or pretty near to what the noun ex- 
presses : as, he is a kind of tool (that is, not far from being 
a fool). Then, in careless and vulgar speech, it is trans- 
ferred (especially in the abbreviated form Wnd o', pro- 
nounced kind o, and often written kinder, where the r is 
never pronounced) to use before an adjective : as, that is 
kind o' good ; he acted kinder ugly ; and even before a verb : 
as, he kind o' (kinder) laughed. 
"A slight figure," said Mr. Peggotty, looking at the fire, 
"kiender worn." Dickens, David Copperfleld, Ixiii. 
The women rather liked him, and kind o' liked to have 
him round. U. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 8. 
It kinder seemed to me that something could be done. 
5. Judd, Margaret, ii. & 
Also, In phrases like what kind of a thing is this? he is a 
poor kind of fellow (that is, a thing of what kind, a fellow 
of a poor kind), kind of has come to seem like an adjective 
element before the noun, and hence before a plural noun, 
after words like some, all, and especially these and Uiose, 
