The father, mother, and the kin beside.
Dryden.
You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons.
Bacon.
Kin, a. Of the same nature or kind; kinder. "Kin to the king." Shak.
Kin`æ*sod"ic (?), a. (Physiol.) Kinesodic.
||Kin`æs*the"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kinei^n to move + &?;
||perception.] (Physiol.) The perception attendant upon the movements
||of the muscles. Bastian.
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Ki"nate (?), n. [Cf. F. kinate. ] (Chem.) See Quinate. [Obsolescent]
Kin"cob (?), n. India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold. --
a. Of the nature of kincob; brocaded. Thackeray.
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.