Chapter Killdee to Kindness of K by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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
(Kind), v. t. [See Kin.] To beget. [Obs.] Spenser.

Kindergarten
(Kin"der*gar`ten) n. [G., lit., children's garden; kinder (pl. of kind child, akin to E. kin kindred) + garten garden.] A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; — a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.

Kindergartner
(Kin"der*gart`ner) n. One who teaches in a kindergarten.

Kind-hearted
(Kind"-heart`ed) a. Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.

To thy self at least kind-hearted prove.

Shak.

Kind-heartedness
(Kind"-heart`ed*ness), n. The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.

Kindle
(Kin"dle) v. t. & i. [OE. kindlen, cundlen. See Kind.] To bring forth young. [Obs.] Shak.

The poor beast had but lately kindled.

Holland.

Kindle
(Kin`dle), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kindled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Kindling ] [Icel. kyndill candle, torch; prob. fr. L. candela; cf. also Icel. kynda to kindle. Cf. Candle.]