Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic. / (dated) Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent. / (archaic) Lawful. / (obsolete) Natural; inherent to the kind or race.

In a kind manner, out of kindness. / In a favourable way. / Used to make a polite request: please. / (US) With kind acceptance; used with take. / (dialectal) Kind of, somewhat. / (archaic) Readily.

plural of kindliness

The state of feeling kindly towards someone or something, or the actions inspired thereby. / (archaic) Favourableness; mildness. / (obsolete) Naturalness.

plural of kindly tenant

(historical, Scotland) A tenant of the same stock as his landlord, or who held his lands in succession, from father to son, for several generations.

(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To like, accept or condone.