kind

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Having or showing a friendly, generous, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature.
• adjective Agreeable or beneficial.
• noun A group of individuals or instances sharing common traits; a category or sort.
• noun A doubtful or borderline member of a given category.
• noun Underlying character as a determinant of the class to which a thing belongs; nature or essence.
• noun The natural order or course of things; nature.
• noun Manner or fashion.
• noun Lineal ancestry or descent.
• noun Lineal ancestors or descendants considered as a group.
• idiom (all kinds of) Plenty of; ample.
• idiom (in kind) With produce or commodities rather than with money.
• idiom (in kind) In the same manner or with an equivalent.
• idiom (kind of) Rather; somewhat.
• idiom (of a kind) Of the same kind; alike.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A cricket.
• To beget.
• noun Nature; natural constitution or character.
• noun Natural disposition, propensity, bent, or characteristic.
• noun Natural descent.
• noun A class; a sort; a species; a number of individual objects having common characters peculiar to them.
• noun In a loose use, a variety; a particular variation or variant: as, a kind of low fever. See kind of, below.
• noun Gender; sex.
• noun Specific manner or way; method of action or operation.
• noun Race; family; stock; descent; a line of individuals related as parent or ancestor and child or descendant.
• noun Blood-relationship.
• noun Also, in phrases like what kind of a thing is this? he is a poor kind of fellow (that is, a thing of what kind, a fellow of a poor kind), kind of has come to seem like an adjective element before the noun, and hence before a plural noun, after words like some, all, and especially these and those, it sometimes keeps the singular form: as, these kind of people. This inaccuracy is very old, and still far from rare, both in speaking and in writing; but good usage condemns it.
• noun Synonyms Sort, Kind (see sort); breed, species, set, family, description.
• 1. Native; natural; characteristic; proper to the genus, species, or individual.
• Of a sympathetic nature or disposition; beneficently disposed: good-hearted; considerate and tender in the treatment of others; benevolent; benignant.
• Loving; affectionate; full of tenderness; caressing.
• Marked by sympathetic feeling; proceeding from goodness of heart; amiable; obliging: considerate: as, a kind act; kind treatment; kind regards.
• Of a favorable character or quality; propitious; serviceable; adaptable; tractable: as, kind weather; a horse kind in harness.
• = Syn. 2 and 3. Gracious, Good-natured, etc. (see benignant); Kindly, etc. (see kindly); benign, beneficent, bounteous, generous, indulgent, tender, humane, compassionate, good, lenient, clement, mild, gentle, bland, friendly, amicable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
• noun Race; genus; species; generic class.
• noun Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description
• noun something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly.
• noun in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money.
• adjective obsolete Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
• adjective Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic
• adjective Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
• adjective Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence.
• adjective Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
• transitive verb obsolete To beget.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Affectionate, showing benevolence.
• adjective Favorable.
• adjective mild, gentle, forgiving