Emily Dickinson Lexicon

KIND, n. [Sax. cyn, or cynn. See Kin.]

1. Race; genus; generic class; as in mankind or human kind. In technical language, kind answers to genus.
2. Sort, in a sense more loose than genus; as, there are several kinds of eloquence and of style, many kinds of music, many kinds of government, various kinds of architecture or of painting, various kinds of soil, &c.
3. Particular nature; as, laws most perfect in their kind. – Bacon.
4. Natural state; produce or commodity, as distinguished from money; as, taxes paid in kind.
5. Nature; natural propensity or determination. Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t' admire your fellow creature. – Dryden.
6. Manner; way. [Little used.] – Bacon.
7. Sort. He spoke with a kind of scorn or contempt.