n. Race; family; breed; kind.n. Collectively, persons of the same race or family; kindred.n. Relationship; consanguinity or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.n. Kind; sort; manner; way.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.Of kin; of the same blood; related.Of the same kind or nature; having affinity.n. A chap or chilblain.n. A weight, in use in China and Japan, equal to 601.043 grams, or nearly 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois; a catty.n. A Chinese musical instrument, of very ancient origin, having from five to twenty-five silken strings. It is played like a lute.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.n. Same as kine.