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.