KIN
3. Bland; mild; softening. 1
Throueli all the living regions do’st thou move,
And scatter'st, where thou goest, the kindlj seedsof love. Dryden.
Ye heav'ns, from high the dewy nectar pour,
And in soft silence shed the kindly show r. rape.Ki'NDNESS. n.s. [from kind.] Benevo-lence ; beneficence; good-will; favour;
love. .
If there be kindness, meekness, or comfort m hertongue, then is not her husband like other men.
° Jbcc/es. xxxvi. 23.
Old Lelius professes he had an extraordinarykindness for several young people. Collier on Friend.
Ever blest be Cytherea’s shrine,
Since thy dear breast has felt an equal wound,
Since in thy kindness my desires are crown’d. Prior.
Love ana inclination can be produced only byan experience or opinion of kindness to us.
Kogers’s Sermons.
Ki'ndred. n.s. [from kind; cynpene,
1. Relation by birth or marriage; cogna-tion. : consanguinity; affinity.
Like her, of equal kindred to the throne,
You keep her conquests,and extend your own .Dry.
2. Relation; suit.
An old mothy saddle, and the stirrups of nokindred. Shakesp.
3. Relative.
I think there is no man secureBut the queen’s kindred . Shakesp. Pick. Ill
Nor needs thy juster title the foul guiltOf Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign.
Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.
Denham.
Ki'ndred. adj. Congeneal; relatedcognate.
From Tuscan Coritum he claim’d his birth ;
But after, when exempt from mortal earth,
From thence ascended to his kindred skiesA god. Dryden
Kine. n. s, plur. from coic.
To milk the kine,
Ere the milk-maid fine
Hath open’d her eyne. Den Jonson.
A field I went, amid’ the morning dew,
To milk my kine. Gay.
KING. n. s. [A contraction of the Teuto-nick word cutting, or cyning, the nameof sovereign dignity. In the primitivetongue it signifies stout or valiant, thekings of most nations being, in the be-ginning, chosen by the people on ac-count of their valour and strength,Verstegan.]
1. Monarch; supreme governor.
The great king of kingsHath in the table of his law commandedThat thou shalt do no murder. Shakesp. RichA substitute shines brightly as a king ,
Until a king be by ; and then his stateEmpties itself, as doth an inland brookInto the main of waters. Shakesp. Merck . Venice.
True hope is swift, and flies witn swallows wings;Rings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Shakesp.
.The king becoming graces,s justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
TY^ Un S v ’ l )ersev ’rauce, mercy, lowliness,votion, patience, courage, fortitude,
1 have no relish of them. Shakesp. Macbeth.
Ihus states wen* form’d ; the name of king un-known, °
'Till common int rest plac’d the sway in one:Twas virtue only, or in arts or arms,
Diffusing blessings, or averting harms,'
The same which in a sire the sons obey’d,
A prince the father of a people made. Pope.
2. It is taken by Bacon in the feminine;as prince also is.
Ferdinand and Isabella,kingsof Spain,recovered the great and rich kingdom of Granada from theMoors Bacon
K I N
3. A card with the picture of a king.
The king unseen
Lurk’d in her hand, and mourn’d his captivequeen. Pope.
4. King at Arms, a principal officer atarms, that has the pre-eminence of thesociety; of whom there are three inI number, viz. Garter , Norroy, and Cla-rencieux. Phillips.
A letter under his own hand was lately shewedme by sir William Dugdale, king at arms. Walton.
To King, v . a. [from the noun.]
J. To supply with a king. A word rather
ludicrous.
England is so idly king’d,
Her sceptre so fantastically borne,
That fear attends her not. Shakesp. Henry V 2. To make royal; to raise to royalty.Sometimes am I a king;
Then treason makes me wish myself a beggar,
And so I am: then crushing penuryv Kttttpr when a
II
And so l am: tnen crusi»nx fe _^
Persuades me, T. was better when a king;
Then am 1 king’d again. Shakesp. Rich .
Ki'ngapple. n. s. A kind of apple.
The kingapple is preferred before the jenneting.
Mortimer.
Ki'ngcraft. n.s. [king and. craft.} TheA word commonly
art of governing.
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a ‘" b“;'
used by king James .
Ki'ngcup, n. s . and cup . The
name is properly, according to Gerard,kingcob.] The flower crowfoot.
June is drawn in a mantle of dark grass green,and upon his head a garland of bents, kingcups ,and maidenhair. Peacham.
Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows,
Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. Gay
Kingdom. n.s. [from king.]
1. The dominion of a king; the territories
subject to a monarch.
You’re welcome,
Most learned reverend sir, into outkingdom, ShakMoses gave unto them the kingdom of Sihon ,king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og ,king of Bashan. Numb, xxxii.
2. A different class or order of beings. Aword chiefly used among naturalists
'Die animal and vegetable kingdoms are so nearlyjoined, that if you take the lowest of one, and the‘ ‘ f there will scarce be per-
; Mortimer
adj. [from king.]
jvnntu, v..—- - ^ - L “t «v.— ,
highest of the other, there will scarce be per-ceived any difference. Locke.
3. A region ; a tract.
The wat’ry kingdom is no barTo stop the foreign spirits ; but .they come,
As o’er a brook, to see fair Portia. Shaxesp.
Ki'ngfisher. n. s. [halcyon.] A ssies of bird.
When dew refreshing on the pasture fields
The moon bestows, kingfishers play on shore.
May’s Virgil.
Bitterns,herons, sea-gulls,kingfishers, and water-rats, are great enemies to fish Mnriimer’s Husb.
Ki'nglike. )
Ki'ngly. [
1. Royal; sovereign; monarchical.
There we’ll sit
Ruling in large and ample eropery,
O’er France , and all her almost kingly dukedoms.
Shakesp . 1
Yet this place
Had been, thy kingly seat, and here thy race,
From all the ends of peopled earth, had comeTo rev’rence thee. Dryden’ s State of Innocence.
In Sparta , a kingly government, though thepeople were perfectly’free, the administration wasm the two kings and the ephori. Swift.
The cities of Greece , when they drove out theirtyrannical kings, either chose others from a newfamily, or abolished the kingly government, andbecame free states. Swift.
2. Belonging to a king; suitable to a king.
K I R
Why liest thou with the vileIn loathsome beds, and leav’st the kingly couchA watch-case to a common ’larum bell? Shakesp.
Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand,
What husband in thy power I will command. Shak.
3. Noble; august; magnificent.
Ife was not born to jive a subject life, eachaction of his bearing in it majesty, such a kinglyentertainment, such a kingly magnificence, sucha kingly heart for enterprises. # Sidney.
I am far better bom than is the king;
More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts.
Shakesp.
Ki'ngly. adv. With an air of royalty;with superior dignity.
Adam oow’d low; he, kingly, from his stateInclin’d not. Milton’s Par. Lost.
His hat, which never vail’d to human pride,
Walker with rev’rence took, and laid aside;
Low bow’d the rest, he, kingly, did but nod.
Dunctad.
Kingse'vie. n. s. [king and evil.] A scro-fulous distemper, in which the gland*are ulcerated, commonly believed to be
cured by the touch of a king.
Sore eyes are frequently a species of the kings-evil,and take theirbeghmingfrom vicious humoursinflaming the tunica adnata. Wisem. Snrg.
Ki'ngship. n.s. [from king.] Royalty;monarchy.
They designed and proposed to me the new-modelling of sovereignty and kingship , withoutany reality of posver, or without any necessity ofsubjection and obedience. King Charles .
We know how successful the late usurper was,while his army believed him real in his zeal againstkingship ; but when they found out the imposture,upon his aspiring to the same himself, he was pre-sently deserted and opposed by them, and neverable to crown his usurped greatness with the ad-dition of that title which he passionately thhrstedafter. South.
Ki'ngspear. n. s. [asphodelus.] Aplant.Ki'ngstone. w. s. [squatina.] ARsh.Ains.Ki'nsfolk. n. s. [kin and folk.] Relations;those who are of the same family.
Thoselords, since their first grants of those lands,have bestowed them amongst their kinsfolks. Spen.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friendsforgotten me. Job, xix. 14.
Ki'nsman. n.s. [kin an&ttum.] A manof the same race or family.
The jury he made to he chosen out of thenearest kinsmen, and tbeirjudgeshemade of theirown fathers. Spenser.
Both fair, and both of royal blood they seem’d,Whom kinsmen to the crown the heralds deem’d.
Th'yden .
Let me stand excluded from my right,
Robb’d of my kinsman’s arms, who first appear’din fight. Lh'ydens Fables.
There is a branch of the Medicis in Naples :the head of it has been owned as a kinsman by thegreat duke, and 'tis thought will succeed to hisdominions. Addison on Italy .
Ki'nswoman. n.s. \lcin and wouian.] Afemale relation.
A young noble lady, near kinswoman to the fairHelen, queen of Corinth, was come thither. Suln .
The duke was as much in love with wit as hewas with his kinswoman. Dennis’s Letters 0
Kirk. n. s. [cypce, Sax.; x^iautxn.] Anold word for a church, yet retained inScotland ,
Home they hasten the posts to digiit,
And all the kirk pillars ere day-light,
With hawthorn buds, and sweet eglantine. Spen.
Nor is it all the nation hath these spots,
There is a church as well as kirk of Scuts. CleavcUWhat one paity thought to rivet by the Scots,that the other contemns, despising the kirk go-vernment and discipline of the Scots. KingCharles,
garment; a gown.