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In the phrase a spice of, a kind of. Obsolete.
The class or category of something. Obsolete.
A particular kind, etc., of thing(s) or person(s).
Const. of (persons or things). Obsolete.
A type or kind (of money, etc.).
a species of, a kind of (cf. kind, n. phrases 3); also with the. †In early use in more definite sense.