n. (Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. Riemann. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. kin, cun, AS. cynn kin, kind, race, people; akin to cennan to beget, D. kunne sex, OS. & OHG. kunni kin, race, Icel. kyn, Goth. kuni, G. & D. kind a child, L. genus kind, race, L. gignere to beget, Gr.
The father, mother, and the kin beside. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of the same nature or kind; kinder. “Kin to the king.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Physiol.) Kinesodic. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Biochemistry) One of a class of enzymes that catalyze transfer of a phosphate group from ATP to another molecule; it is a type of
n. [ Cf. F. kinate. ] (Chem.) See Quinate. [ Obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster ]
prop. n. same as Kanchenjunga.
n. India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold. --
a.
It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith. [ 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 ]