kin

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One's relatives; family; kinfolk.
2. n. A kinsman or kinswoman.
3. adj. Related; akin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Race; family; breed; kind.
2. n. Collectively, persons of the same race or family; kindred.
3. n. Relationship; consanguinity or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
4. n. Kind; sort; manner; way.
5. n. A person's nearest relatives according to the civil law. (Stimson.) The phrase does not include a widow, she being specifically provided for by the law as widow, and it is sometimes used in contradistinction to children: as, the widow, children, and next of kin. In either use it means that one (or more) who stands in the nearest degree of blood-relationship to the deceased. What degree is deemed nearest varies somewhat in the details of the law of different jurisdictions; but in general where there are no children, or descendants of children, the father is the next of kin, and if there is no father, the mother, and if no parent, the brothers and sisters are the next of kin, and so on.— Of kin, of the same kin; having relationship; of the same nature or kind; akin. See akin.
6. Of kin; of the same blood; related.
7. Of the same kind or nature; having affinity.
8. n. A chap or chilblain.
9. n. A weight, in use in China and Japan, equal to 601.043 grams, or nearly 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois; a catty.
10. n. A Chinese musical instrument, of very ancient origin, having from five to twenty-five silken strings. It is played like a lute.
11. n. A diminutive suffix, attached to nouns to signify a little object of the kind mentioned: as, lambkin, a little iamb; pipkin, a little pipe: catkin, a little cat, etc. As applied to persons it usually conveys contempt, as in lordkin. It is sometimes preceded by a short vowel, as in canakin or cannikin, manakin or manikin, bootikin, etc. In the obsolete bodikin, ladikin (lakin), etc., the diminutive form is due to the tendency to mince oaths. In many words, as bumpkin, buskin, firkin, griskin, kilderkin, malkin, napkin, Siskin, etc., the diminutive force is for various reasons (but chiefly because most of them are not of original English formation) not now perceived. In finikin the suffix is adjectival. In bodkin, gherkin, pumpkin, and some other words the termination requires special explanation: see their etymology.
12. n. Same as kine.

Wiktionary

1. n. Race; family; breed; kind.
2. n. collectively Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
3. n. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
4. n. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
5. n. Kind; sort; manner; way.
6. adj. Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
2. n. Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
3. n. Relatives; persons of the same family or race.
4. (Physics) The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second.
5. adj. Of the same nature or kind; kinder.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. group of people related by blood or marriage
2. n. a person having kinship with another or others
3. adj. related by blood