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Disposed. [Archaic] Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10.

A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.

ccording to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind. He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes. Isa. xi. 3. They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh. Rom. viii. 5.

Against; also, towards (in order to meet). [Obs.] Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.

A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. Ps. xxxix. 5.

o mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.…

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz.

In good part; kindly. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin.

A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air of force in into a closed space.

Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character. Jeffrey.

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.

A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.