KIM'BO KIN, noun [Latin genus; Gr. connected with Latin gigno, geno.] 1. Relation, properly by consanguinity or blood, but perhaps sometimes used for relation by affinity or marriage. This man is of kin to me. 2. Relatives; kindred; persons of the same race. --The father, mother and the kin beside. 3. A relation; a relative. 4. The same generical class; a thing related. And the ear-deafening voice of th' oracle, Kin to Jove's thunder. 5. As a termination, kin is used as a diminutive, denoting small, from the sense of child; as in manikin, a little man. KIN, adjective Of the same nature; kindred; congenial.
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