Originally: the inherent or essential quality or constitution of a thing; the inherent and inseparable combination of properties giving any…

A group of animals or plants linked by common origin or characteristics; a species, breed, etc. Cf. kind, n. 8a.

A distinct type or kind (of person, thing, etc.). Modified by a determiner, numeral, or adjective… Species, kind, or sort. Now rare except in what m…

A fashion, style, mode, or manner; frequently in of the new jet, of the best jet, etc.

General character or disposition; nature, kind. Also: †an instance of this (obsolete). Cf. complexion, n. 7a.

Taken as the distinctive type of sort or kind; of one hair, of one colour and external quality; hence = sort, kind, nature; stamp, character. Obsolete…

Extraction, origin; hence, nature.

A class of things or beings distinguished by having certain characteristics in common; (as a mass noun) these regarded collectively; kind, sort. Obs…

Rank, order, condition, quality.

Character, type; a characteristic quality, esp. a slight admixture of such a quality; a hint, trace, or tinge of something.

Figurative uses developed from sense A. 2. Kind, sort. Now dialect (see quot. 1787).

gen. Quality, purity; (in weaker sense) character, type. Cf. stamp, n.3 13e. Obsolete.

Standard or measure with regard to quality or condition. Hence: class, kind, type; †rank (obsolete). Now only in the non-nautical uses of first rate…

abstract. Brand, quality, sort. See herring, n.

A sort, kind, or class. Obsolete.

Kind, sort. Now rare. Also †in fashion to: of a kind to.

A species, kind, or type. Obsolete.

In various figurative applications. Character, kind; fashion, make; cast, type.

gen. A group of things, activities, etc., significantly connected by common features or properties; a set. Usually with modifying word or…

Sort, kind. Obsolete.

Kind, species.

figurative. Temperament, nature, constitution, disposition; hence, kind, sort, class, stamp.

Sort, class, quality.

Formal aspect or category. Obsolete.

Kind, type, fashion. Obsolete.

The manner in which a thing is made. Of an immaterial thing: form, fashion; sort, character, nature (passing into sense 3). Obsolete.

Kind, sort, style; ‘stamp, type’. of persons. Apparently there has here often been vague association with caste, n. (formerly spelt cast).

Manner or mode of being. Obsolete.

A specified type or class of things; kind, sort, description. In prepositional phrases with in, as in the way of, in the —— way: of the nature of…

Species; kind. Now Obsolete except as an inferred singular of species, n. 10.

Quality, character, nature; condition, state. in physical sense; in early use esp. quality of tone (cf. A. 4). Obsolete.

Originally: family, class, set, or lot, esp. in that ilk. Subsequently, in extended use and with other premodifiers: kind, sort.

Kind; sort; style.

Originally U.S. A particular shade or variety of political or religious doctrine; in wider sense, a sort, class, type.

colloquial and humorous. A group or collection linked by a shared characteristic, quality, or attribute. Esp. in early use in of the —— persuasion…