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e; natural; native. [Obs.] Chaucer. It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste. Holland.

Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.

The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.

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 garde…

One who teaches in a kindergarten.

To bring forth young. [Obs.] Shak. The poor beast had but lately kindled. Holland.

One who, or that which, kindles, stirs up, or sets on fire."Kindlers of riot." Gay.

Destitute of kindness; unnatural.[Obs.] "Kindless villain." Shak.

The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words. In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville.

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

According to the kind or nature; natural. [R.] The kindly fruits of the earth. Book of Com. Prayer. An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting. Spenser. 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.

The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth.

Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. Dryden.

Unkindness; disservice. [R.] A. Tucker.

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle. Shak.

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.

Mankind. Pope.

Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.

The human race; man, taken collectively. The proper study of mankind is man. Pore.

To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.