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A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shows his power in variable kinds !

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A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

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*1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII

*:I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.

(label) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

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*:And whan he cam ageyne he sayd / O my whyte herte / me repenteth that thow art dede // and thy deth shalle be dere bought and I lyue / and anone he wente in to his chamber and armed hym / and came oute fyersly / & there mette he with syr gauayne / why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayn / for they dyd but their kynde

(senseid)Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.

Equivalent means used as response to an action.

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Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

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tree bark

A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc

* Shakespeare

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind .

* Milton

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.

The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind "

* 1939 , Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance , London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262:

Taking the money from a man when he's got his pants down. What are you, a doctor or a tailor's tout? Thirty bucks! If I figured you'd have the rind to touch me that much I'd have lashed them up with a pair of braces!

* 1940 , Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941 , published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, ISBN 9780612732810, p. 99:

April 9, 1940. Then one of our RAF customers had the rind to suggest that ‘you women ought to give up smoking for the duration you know’. This , when they have the alternative of smoking pipes which is not open to us, [...]

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* 2010 , (David Stubbs), Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010 , O Books (Zero Books), ISBN 9781846944574, p. 12:

[About a football match.] Come the second half and the Trinidadians and Tobagans had the immortal rind to make excursions into the England half, the spectacle of which was deeply offensive to those whose memories extend to those happy days before 1962, when independence was unwisely conferred on this archipelago. Back in those days, a game like this would have presented little anxiety. Any goals scored by the Trinidadians, or Tobagans for that matter, would have been instantly become the property of the Crown and therefore added to England's tally. Glad times – 22 men working together for a common aim. However, such is the insolence of the modern age that these dark fellows dared approach the England penalty box, forelocks untugged, as if demanding instant entry to the Garrick club without having been put up by existing members.

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An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill