They appear . . . no ways assorted to those with whom they must associate. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such men as may besort your age. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With such accommodation and besort
As levels with her breeding. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He single chose to live, and shunned to wed,
Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A ship keeping company with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. “By Heaven's consort.” Fuller. “Working in consort.” Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ LL. consortium. ] An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In one consort' there sat
Cruel revenge and rancorous despite,
Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord, place me in thy consort. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ Perh. confused with concert. ] Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make a sad consort';
Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prince consort, the husband of a queen regnant. --
Queen consort, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a queen regnant, who rules alone, and a queen dowager, the window of a king. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He with his consorted Eve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

For all that pleasing is to living ears
Was there consorted in one harmony. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

He begins to consort himself with men. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To attend; to accompany. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
Shalt with him hence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

What men name resort to him? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fall back; to revert. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Join with me to forbid him her resort. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Far from all resort of mirth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

By aventure, or sort, or cas [ chance ]. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let blockish Ajax draw
The sort to fight with Hector. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Manner; form of being or acting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which for my part I covet to perform,
In sort as through the world I did proclaim. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll deceive you in another sort. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To Adam in what sort
Shall I appear? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Condition above the vulgar; rank. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [ Obs. ] “A sort of shepherds.” Spenser. “A sort of steers.” Spenser. “A sort of doves.” Dryden. “A sort of rogues.” Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

A boy, a child, and we a sort of us,
Vowed against his voyage. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A pair; a set; a suit. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed. --
To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an index. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Kind; species; rank; condition. -- Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the same family, or bound together by some natural affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere assemblage. the two words are now used to a great extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we say, that sort of people, that sort of language. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when the total kind
Of birds, in orderly array on wing,
Came summoned over Eden to receive
Their names of there. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of noble sort
Would so offend a virgin. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce to order from a confused state. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

She sorts things present with things past. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull. [ 1913 Webster ]

That he may sort out a worthy spouse. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll sort some other time to visit you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Things sort not to my will. herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Suitable; befitting; proper. [ Obs. ] con. [ 1913 Webster ]

A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A closing voluntary; a postlude. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Not well selected; ill-chosen. [ 1913 Webster ]

The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you named uncertain; the time itself unsorted. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]