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Kind
() Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
Kind
() Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
Kind
() Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
Kind
() Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
Kind
() Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
Kind
() Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
Kind
() 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.
Kind
() To beget.
Kindergarten
() 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
() One who teaches in a kindergarten.
Kind-hearted
() Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.
Kind-heartedness
() The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.
Kindle
() To bring forth young.
Kindled
() of Kindle
Kindling
() of Kindle
Kindle
() 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.
Kindle
() 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.
Kindle
() To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame.
Kindle
() Fig.: To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated.
Kindler
() One who, or that which, kindles, stirs up, or sets on fire.
Kindless
() Destitute of kindness; unnatural.
Kindliness
() Natural inclination; natural course.
Kindliness
() The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words.
Kindliness
() Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season.
Kinding
() The of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.
Kinding
() Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire.
Kindly
() According to the kind or nature; natural.
Kindly
() Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc.
Kindly
() Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.
Kindly
() Naturally; fitly.
Kindly
() In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.
Kindness
() The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.
Kindness
() A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great kindness.
Kindred
() Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.
Kindred
() Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.
Kindred
() Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.
Kine
() Cows.
Kinematic
() Alt. of Kinematical
Kinematical
() Of or pertaining to kinematics.
Kinematics
() The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.
Kinepox
() See Cowpox.
Kinepox
() See Kinetoscope.
Kinesiatrics
() A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; -- also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure.
Kinesipathy
() See Kinesiatrics.
Kinesitherapy
() See Kinesiatrics.
Kinesipathy
() See Kinesiatrics.
Kinesodic
() Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly.
Kinetic
() Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent.
Kinetics
() See Dynamics.
Kinetogenesis
() An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.