*kind*

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enkindled p. pr. & vb. n. Enkindling ] 1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To excite; to rouse into action; to incite. [ 1913 Webster ]

To enkindle the enthusiasm of an artist. Talfourd. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. set on fire.
Syn. -- ignited, kindled, lit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. gavelkynde, gavelkende. See Gavel tribute, and Kind, n. ] (O. Eng. Law) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mankind. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil. Luke vi 35. [ 1913 Webster ]

O cruel Death, to those you take more kind
Than to the wretched mortals left behind. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. “Manners so kind, yet stately.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See Kind, a. ] 1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He knew by kind and by no other lore. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some of you, on pure instinct of nature,
Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. “Come of so low a kind.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every kind of beasts, and of birds. James iii.7. [ 1913 Webster ]

She follows the law of her kind. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here to sow the seed of bread,
That man and all the kinds be fed. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

How diversely Love doth his pageants play,
And snows his power in variable kinds ! Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. I Cor. xv. 39. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. Arbuthnot.

Syn. -- Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Kin. ] To beget. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., lit., children's garden; kinder (pl. of kind child, akin to E. kin kindred) + garten garden. ] 1. A class within a primary school or a separate school for young children, usually between the ages of four and six years, designed to adapt children to the classroom environment before beginning academic training, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who teaches in a kindergarten. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. [ 1913 Webster ]

To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ OE. kindlen, cundlen. See Kind. ] To bring forth young. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The poor beast had but lately kindled. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings. [ 1913 Webster ]

His breath kindleth coals. Job xii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

So is a contentious man to kindle strife. Prov. xxvi. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. Dryden.

Syn. -- Enkindle; light; ignite; inflame; provoke; excite; arouse; stir up. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. Is. xliii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fig.): To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated. [ 1913 Webster ]

On all occasions where forbearance might be called for, the Briton kindles, and the Christian gives way. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, kindles, stirs up, or sets on fire. “Kindlers of riot.” Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of kindness; unnatural. [ Obs. ] “Kindless villain.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Natural inclination; natural course. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words. [ 1913 Webster ]

In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fruits and corn are much advanced by temper of the air and
kindliness of seasons. Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.

2. Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire, such as small twigs or paper; -- also used in the pl.. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Kindlier superl. Kindliest. ] [ AS. cyndelic. See Kind, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. According to the kind or nature; natural. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The kindly fruits of the earth. Book of Com. Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for
Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men. L. Andrews. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shade by which my life was crossed, . . .
Has made me kindly with my kind. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent. [ 1913 Webster ]

In soft silence shed the kindly shower. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Should e'er a kindlier time ensue. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “Nothing ethical was connoted in kindly once: it was simply the adjective of kind. But it is God's ordinance that kind should be kindly, in our modern sense of the word as well; and thus the word has attained this meaning.” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Naturally; fitly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Examine how kindly the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate with the English language Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love. Rom. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Kind. a. ] 1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great kindness.

Syn. -- Good will; benignity; grace; tenderness; compassion; humanity; clemency; mildness; gentleness; goodness; generosity; beneficence; favor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kinrede, kynrede, kunreden (with excrescent d), fr. AS. cynn kin, race + the termination -r&aemacr_;den, akin to AS. r&aemacr_;dan to advise, G. rathen. Cf. Hatred. ] 1. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

I think there's no man is secure
But the queen's kindred. Shak.

Syn. -- Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations; relationship; affinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions. [ 1913 Webster ]

True to the kindred points of heaven and home. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel. [ Obs ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing? Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be not too mankind against your wife. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. mancynn. See Kin kindred, Kind, n. ] 1. The human race; man, taken collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

The proper study of mankind is man. Pore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. Lev. xviii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Human feelings; humanity. [ Obs ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enkindle again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To kindle again. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inferior kind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Kin kindred. ] Having no race or kindred; childless. [ Obs. & R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural. [ Obs. ] “Such unkind abominations.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un*kind"ly, adv. -- Un*kind"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unkindness. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not kindly; unkind; ungracious. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unnatural; contrary to nature. [ Obs. ] “Unkindly crime.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unfavorable; annoying; malignant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not kindred; not of the same kin. [ Obs. ] Rowe. -- Un*kin"dred*ly, a. [1913 Webster]