Definition of sort

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Sort (n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems..

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Mitre :: Mitre (n.) A sort of base money or coin.
Pack :: Pack (n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
Diagometer :: Diagometer (n.) A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power..
Zampogna :: Zampogna (n.) A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.
Sort :: Sort (v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
Assortment :: Assortment (n.) Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes..
Soil :: Soil (n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer..
Polyclinic :: Polyclinic (n.) A clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated; especially, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in all kinds of disease..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
Consort :: Consort (n.) A ship keeping company with another.
Ruck :: Ruck (n.) The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race..
Muslinet :: Muslinet (n.) A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.
Ribibe :: Ribibe (n.) A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec.
Brave :: Brave (superl.) Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.
Carlock :: Carlock (n.) A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine..
Star :: Stapler (n.) One employed to assort wool according to its staple.
Hedge :: Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden..
Pegm :: Pegm (n.) A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants.
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