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Kin   /kɪn/   Listen
noun
Kin  n.  (Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.


Kin  n.  
1.
Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
2.
Relatives; persons of the same family or race. "The father, mother, and the kin beside." "You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons."


Kine, Kin  n.  (Physics) The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system a velocity of one centimeter per second.


adjective
Kin  adj.  Of the same nature or kind; kinder. "Kin to the king."


suffix
-kin  suff.  A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.





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"Kin" Quotes from Famous Books



... you learn that trick?" inquired the toolmaker, a look in his eyes which was pretty close kin to amazement. ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... reasonableness. Is it similarly and equally reasonable to speak of an American school? Does a room full of American pictures have a different look from a room full of pictures by artists of any other nationality? Does one feel that the pictures in such a room have a something in common that makes them kin and a something different that distinguishes them from the pictures of all other countries? I think the answer must be ...
— Artist and Public - And Other Essays On Art Subjects • Kenyon Cox
... it showed enterprise for a noosepaper man to intervue distinguished guests, so I thot it'd do purty neer as well to intervue a distinguished liar. So I got the clerk to sho me up to Mr. Per-kin's room. ...
— The Bad Boy At Home - And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 • Walter T. Gray
... judges make this a particular branch of jurisprudence? If they do, I'd like to know what they took for their text-books. If the intermixture is as complex as what you say, I should think some of the judges would be afraid of passing verdict upon their own kin." ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams
... would talk it over with somebody. Bob occurred to him. It was only fair that Bob should be told, as the nearest of kin. ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse


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