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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
kind
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/kind heart (=a kind character)
▪ My father had a good heart.
a kind/generous offer
▪ We are grateful for your kind offer.
▪ They were surprised by his generous offer to let them stay at his place.
by kind permission of sbformal (= used for thanking someone for allowing something)
▪ This photograph is reproduced by kind permission of Country Living.
different types/kinds etc
▪ There are many different types of fabric.
kind/type/sort of person
▪ David was not the sort of person who found it easy to talk about his feelings.
sb's kind invitation
▪ It gives me great pleasure to accept your kind invitation.
some kind/type/form/sort of sth
▪ We can hopefully reach some kind of agreement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ His most striking proposition to the lay reader is that human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language.
▪ The statewide budget would be distributed by region and broken down further into budgets for certain kinds of medical care.
▪ In these fields, we are not even certain what kind of solution we are seeing.
▪ Fears, however, warn an organization against certain kinds of activity.
▪ Cultural capital is based on time invested in obtaining certain kinds of knowledge.
▪ But he has not fought certain kinds of battles.
▪ Weaver shows, for example, that a certain peculiar kind of process is occurring when public enterprise objectives are being determined.
▪ You grow apart from certain kind of shows.
different
▪ For example, applying this analysis to mental and different kinds of practical tests produces the following scheme shown in Table 2.1.
▪ But, as a different kind of city than ever before, it will survive.
▪ These different kinds of interaction will be discussed in turn.
▪ But it was a different kind of pollution.
▪ What he should say is' I have several different kinds of logical object in my document.
▪ Such an obligation seems to be a factor different in kind from any considered so far.
▪ Why do we have different kinds of equity?
new
▪ As part of this a rather different kind of social survey emerged and with it new kinds of data.
▪ They needed a new kind of network, not the switched kind that was trendy at the time.
▪ The first time, Dot cried out at this new kind of hurt.
▪ Some people felt that machines exercised a new kind of tyrannical power over them.
▪ In some cases, quite new kinds of source material will become practical.
▪ Slowly, quietly, far from the public spotlight, new kinds of public institutions are emerging.
▪ Commodore have ingeniously integrated established technology to create the appearance of a new kind of multimedia system.
other
▪ What other kind of lexical sub-system might be accessed when one reads a word aloud?
▪ Plants, animals, and fungi have eukaryotic cells, containing distinct nuclei and several other kinds of organelle.
▪ She seldom has any other kind.
▪ Possible foods include leaves from various trees and from other kinds of plant.
▪ My account of deixis is such that the methodology could be applied to other kinds of discourse, both literary and non-literary.
▪ The habit of moving around in large groups is much commoner in fish than in other kinds of animals.
▪ The detailed analyses they make of unconscious significations can stop them from considering any other kind of explanation.
▪ The other kind of reason is the substantive one.
particular
▪ The commended approach to teaching strategies was highly partisan in respect of the particular kinds of practice which were endorsed.
▪ You can tell immediately the particular kind of scientist in an office by the maps outside the door.
▪ The flux, the flow, the drifting balance of our days needs a particular kind of patience.
▪ She may require that her daughter be a particular kind of person because she can not see her as a separate individual.
▪ Once a particular kind of stone was recognized as precious it tended to remain so.
▪ Years ago we used to do a particular kind of experiment in the psychology laboratories.
▪ Each place will tend to support a particular kind of instrument, depending on geographical factors and the available flora and fauna.
▪ Again, it appears that contexts of a particular kind must be avoided if the test is to succeed.
various
▪ Once problems have actually arisen help of various kinds may supply a remedy or at least forestall something worse.
▪ Mixing various kinds of fonts, and sizes of fonts, on a single page.
▪ Dialogues, drills, pronunciation exercises on cassette. each unit introduces a situation on which various kinds of language practice are based.
▪ The regularities in human social relations are defined by rule structures of various kinds.
▪ The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication.
▪ Fungi of various kinds are always present in the bodies of healthy people.
▪ It has regularly attracted research studentships of various kinds, and provides a stimulating research environment.
▪ Always have others read over your material in order to identify gaps, flaws and oversights of various kinds.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all sorts/kinds/types of sth
▪ After that, they subjected me to all kinds of examinations and procedures.
▪ At that special level all sorts of odd things happened...
▪ Damaged anemones are open to all sorts of bacterial diseases which can be fatal.
▪ No one company offers the best or worst deals in all countries or for all types of car.
▪ Now here was Lisa, claiming her innocence, claiming all sorts of prosecutorial abuse.
▪ Now, all kinds of marvellous technologies are used to read the message of the nucleic acids.
▪ Producers are obstructed by governments in all sorts of ways, but enterprises are, by and large, private.
▪ There are all sorts of machines being developed to upgrade security.
be cruel to be kind
▪ George did not like being firm with Lennie but he knew that he had to be cruel to be kind.
▪ So now I've got to be cruel to be kind.
▪ You've got to be cruel to be kind, and dismantling the Dome would be the best solution for everybody.
▪ You have to be cruel to be kind.
it is kind/stupid/careless etc of sb (to do sth)
▪ But, it, it is kind of funny.
▪ So it is kind of coming home and a change of focus.
▪ The idea of it is kind of cute: This little Frank guy is trying to find candy.
not the marrying kind
nothing of the sort/kind
▪ But nothing of the sort happens.
▪ Even apparent moves by the regime to resolve the crisis turn out on closer inspection to be nothing of the kind.
▪ In reality, of course, Pooley had done nothing of the kind.
▪ It is nothing of the kind.
▪ It sounds unkind, but nothing of the sort was ever remotely true of Borg.
▪ Maggie expected him to look annoyed but he did nothing of the sort.
▪ Uncle Allen remembered nothing of the sort.
payment in kind
▪ Complaints about payment in kind or in truck were persistent in many parts of the country.
▪ Secondly, it is often argued that farm workers are compensated for their low wages by a cornucopia of payments in kind.
▪ Self-sufficiency, payment in kind and living-in service were all shrinking.
▪ The advantage of payment in kind becomes obvious.
would you be good/kind enough to do sth?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ben's not the marrying kind.
▪ corruption of the worst kind
▪ They had a few bags in the store, but they weren't the right kind.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was a kind of genius, and he suffered.
▪ In the past, I would have shared this kind of thing with Nick.
▪ One stumbling block can be the kind of computer you own.
▪ The writer is engaged in a kind of vicarious interaction with a presumed reader and anticipates and provides for likely reactions.
▪ Then I saw the teeth marks were kind of big.
▪ There is a great deal of truth in this general argument; inequalities of this kind have been reduced.
▪ What kind of material is the box usually made of?
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ In the next few months I studied hard with Mr Pocket, who was always a most kind and helpful teacher.
really
▪ Mrs Sugden meant no harm to anyone, but neither had she the intelligence to be really kind.
▪ Everyone was really kind, but I must admit to feeling out of place in this intimate all-female atmosphere.
▪ He knew very few men who were really kind to women unless it was part of their job.
▪ They claim that despite their reputations, the Krays are really kind and generous people.
so
▪ Nahum was no longer so kind or considerate, and he was prone to strange moods.
▪ Would I be so kind as to drive her to the aircraft in my car?
▪ It was nice, people were so kind, offering encouragement and congratulations for what had been achieved.
▪ She'd never been so kind before.
▪ Would I ever look at nature that way, as something so kind, so fundamentally good?
▪ They had been so kind towards him, so very fond of the prodigal young man.
▪ Her name was Ida Wilson, and she was so kind to me.
too
▪ The Khans were being too kind to me.
▪ She looks a little disappointed when she sees us close up but is too kind to say so.
▪ You mustn't be too kind in a case like this.
▪ You are a kind person - too kind to leave me alone out here in bad weather.
▪ They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair.
▪ But they didn't, they were too kind.
▪ Mrs Goreng had been too kind to them in the sense of what to expect.
very
▪ I gave my first concert at the age of nine, and people were very kind.
▪ It was very kind of you to look at me when you were ready to close up.
▪ He's been very kind to me and Lily, as regards putting our minds at rest about Stella.
▪ Elizabeth is going to be very kind to me.
▪ It was very kind of you.
▪ And she's very kind to you.
▪ She was very kind to think of me.
■ NOUN
face
▪ She had long wavy brown hair, and a gentle, kind face.
▪ You have such a kind face.
friend
▪ Hitherto, she'd thought of him as a friend; a kind friend, far above her station.
heart
▪ She had a remarkable face, one that denoted a quick intellect and a kind heart.
▪ Poor little thing, she would be feeling so lonely and frightened, and Jean's kind heart went out to her.
▪ Unfortunately, pity for that poor pathetic creature began to creep into her kind heart.
▪ For he has a kind heart ....
▪ But underneath there was a remarkably warm and kind heart.
▪ Apart from being beautiful and elegant, not to mention clever and intelligent - you've one of the kindest hearts I know.
▪ Let her shelter you as is her pleasure and as her kind heart will have her do.
▪ What mattered was the kind hearts that were inside.
invitation
▪ Even by accepting Laura Danby's kind invitation, Meredith's own fiercely maintained independence could be said to have been undermined.
man
▪ A kind man, a gentle man.
▪ He was the kindest man and toughest reporter we have known in our time.
▪ But he was a warm and kind man.
▪ The judge was a kind man.
▪ Just when I think you're the kindest man in the world you suddenly get the glooms again.
▪ Jesse Helms possibly object to President Clinton appointing the kindest man on earth as ambassador to a very small country?
▪ He might have been a kind man trying to look after me.
offer
▪ Thanks for your kind offer of help.
people
▪ The country belonged to the Phaeacians, a kind people and splendid sailors.
permission
▪ Used by kind permission of Music Sales.
▪ Reproduced by kind permission of Churchill Livingstone.
▪ Reproduced by kind permission of Warner Chappell/IMP.
▪ With her erstwhile host's kind permission, she reminded herself bitterly.
person
▪ You are a kind person - too kind to leave me alone out here in bad weather.
▪ I might go wild, do a dance, fling a ten pound note at the kind person who found it.
▪ And the aunt was not a kind person.
▪ She was also a safe and kind person to be with.
▪ She was one of the kindest persons I ever met.
thing
▪ I suppose on reflection it wasn't a very kind thing to say, but he really reacted oddly.
▪ The Republicans' rationale is that it is wrong to pay students to do the kind things they should be doing anyway.
▪ The kindest thing one can say of this is that, one day, we may come round to liking it.
word
▪ Thank you for your kind words.
▪ Here's to a job well done!-John Romeo, Buffalo John: Thanks for the kind words.
▪ Steve Mariucci offered kind words for the unit on Sunday, as always.
▪ The kind words you have to say about me, Say them now for I want to hear them.
▪ Dole had kind words for his disgraced contemporary.
▪ Salisbury, Butler and Macmillan spoke kind words.
▪ It also suddenly became possible to say kind words about space visionaries.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all sorts/kinds/types of sth
▪ After that, they subjected me to all kinds of examinations and procedures.
▪ At that special level all sorts of odd things happened...
▪ Damaged anemones are open to all sorts of bacterial diseases which can be fatal.
▪ No one company offers the best or worst deals in all countries or for all types of car.
▪ Now here was Lisa, claiming her innocence, claiming all sorts of prosecutorial abuse.
▪ Now, all kinds of marvellous technologies are used to read the message of the nucleic acids.
▪ Producers are obstructed by governments in all sorts of ways, but enterprises are, by and large, private.
▪ There are all sorts of machines being developed to upgrade security.
it is kind/stupid/careless etc of sb (to do sth)
▪ But, it, it is kind of funny.
▪ So it is kind of coming home and a change of focus.
▪ The idea of it is kind of cute: This little Frank guy is trying to find candy.
not the marrying kind
nothing of the sort/kind
▪ But nothing of the sort happens.
▪ Even apparent moves by the regime to resolve the crisis turn out on closer inspection to be nothing of the kind.
▪ In reality, of course, Pooley had done nothing of the kind.
▪ It is nothing of the kind.
▪ It sounds unkind, but nothing of the sort was ever remotely true of Borg.
▪ Maggie expected him to look annoyed but he did nothing of the sort.
▪ Uncle Allen remembered nothing of the sort.
payment in kind
▪ Complaints about payment in kind or in truck were persistent in many parts of the country.
▪ Secondly, it is often argued that farm workers are compensated for their low wages by a cornucopia of payments in kind.
▪ Self-sufficiency, payment in kind and living-in service were all shrinking.
▪ The advantage of payment in kind becomes obvious.
would you be good/kind enough to do sth?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Karen gave me a lift to the station." "That was kind of her."
▪ Everyone loved Mary. She was the kindest, most generous person in the world.
▪ He's a good brother. He's always been kind to me.
▪ That was such a kind thing to say.
▪ Your great-aunt Olga was a very kind woman.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But she accepted that the Colonel was a kind man.
▪ Coronado was a far kinder conquistador than his ruthless contemporaries Pizarro and De Soto, but he was equally obsessed with gold.
▪ Even the thought of sharing a bed with him didn't seem so threatening when he was being kind.
▪ I was with them a week and they were kind to me.
▪ She looks a little disappointed when she sees us close up but is too kind to say so.
▪ There is still some, but it is kinder, gentler and rarer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kind

Kind \Kind\ (k[imac]nd), a. [Compar. Kinder (k[imac]nd"[~e]r); superl. Kindest.] [AS. cynde, gecynde, natural, innate, prop. an old p. p. from the root of E. kin. See Kin kindred.]

  1. Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

    It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.
    --Holland.

  2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.

    Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault.
    --Goldsmith.

  3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.

    He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil.
    --Luke vi 35.

    O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
    --Waller.

    A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.
    --Garrick.

  4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. ``Manners so kind, yet stately.''
    --Tennyson.

  5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.

    Syn: Benevolent; benign; beneficent; bounteous; gracious; propitious; generous; forbearing; indulgent; tender; humane; compassionate; good; lenient; clement; mild; gentle; bland; obliging; friendly; amicable. See Obliging.

Kind

Kind \Kind\, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See Kind, a.]

  1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.]

    He knew by kind and by no other lore.
    --Chaucer.

    Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
    --Dryden.

  2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. ``Come of so low a kind.''
    --Chaucer.

    Every kind of beasts, and of birds.
    --James iii.7.

    She follows the law of her kind.
    --Wordsworth.

    Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed.
    --Emerson.

  3. Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.

    How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds !
    --Spenser.

    There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
    --I Cor. xv. 39.

    Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers?
    --Bacon.

    A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly.

    In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money.

    Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.
    --Arbuthnot.

    Syn: Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set.

Kind

Kind \Kind\, v. t. [See Kin.] To beget. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind

"class, sort, variety," from Old English gecynd "kind, nature, race," related to cynn "family" (see kin), from Proto-Germanic *kundjaz "family, race," from PIE *gene- "to give birth, beget" (see genus). Ælfric's rendition of "the Book of Genesis" into Old English came out gecyndboc. The prefix disappeared 1150-1250. No exact cognates beyond English, but it corresponds to adjective endings such as Goth -kunds, Old High German -kund. Also in English as a suffix ( mankind, etc.). Other earlier, now obsolete, senses in English included "character, quality derived from birth" and "manner or way natural or proper to anyone." Use in phrase a kind of (1590s) led to colloquial extension as adverb (1804) in phrases such as kind of stupid ("a kind of stupid (person)").

kind

"friendly, deliberately doing good to others," from Old English gecynde "natural, native, innate," originally "with the feeling of relatives for each other," from Proto-Germanic *kundi- "natural, native," from *kunjam "family" (see kin), with collective prefix *ga- and abstract suffix *-iz. Sense development from "with natural feelings," to "well-disposed" (c.1300), "benign, compassionate" (c.1300).

Wiktionary
kind

Etymology 1 n. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together. Etymology 2

a. 1 having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal#Adjective, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature#Noun or disposition, marked by consideration for - and service to - others. 2 affectionate. 3 favorable. 4 mild, gentle, forgiving 5 Gentle; tractable; easily governed. 6 (context obsolete English) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

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WordNet
kind

n. a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" [syn: sort, form, variety]

kind

  1. adj. having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior; "kind to sick patients"; "a kind master"; "kind words showing understanding and sympathy"; "thanked her for her kind letter" [ant: unkind]

  2. liberal; "kind words of praise"

  3. conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial sunshine"; "a kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet" [syn: genial]

  4. expressing sympathy

  5. characterized by mercy, and compassion; "compassionate toward disadvantaged people"; "kind to animals"; "a humane judge" [syn: merciful]

  6. agreeable; "a dry climate kind to asthmatics"

  7. helpful to other people; "helping an old lady with her bundles was his kind deed for the day"

  8. tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke" [syn: tolerant]

  9. showing consideration and anticipation of needs; "it was thoughtful of you to bring flowers"; "a neighbor showed thoughtful attention" [syn: thoughtful]

  10. generously responsive; "good-hearted but inept efforts to help"; "take a kindly interest"; "a kindly gentleman"; "an openhearted gift to charity" [syn: good-hearted, kindly, openhearted]

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Wikipedia
KIND

KIND may refer to:

  • KIND Healthy Snacks
  • Indianapolis International Airport, a public airport southwest of downtown Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States by ICAO code
  • KBIK, a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to Independence, Kansas, United States that held the call sign KIND-FM from 1980 to 2010
  • KIND (AM), a radio station (1010 AM) licensed to Independence, Kansas, United States
  • KIND-FM, a radio station (94.9 FM) licensed to Elk City, Kansas, United States
Kind (company)

Kind LLC, stylized as KIND LLC and sometimes referred to as KIND Snacks or KIND Healthy Snacks, is a healthy foods company based in New York, New York. It was founded in 2004 by Daniel Lubetzky. The company manufactures seven product lines made from whole ingredients.

Kind (horse)

Kind (foaled 21 April 2001) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. She won six of her thirteen races, including the Listed Flower of Scotland Stakes and Kilvington Stakes, as well as being placed in the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes. Since retiring from racing she has become one of Juddmonte Farms' top broodmares, foaling the undefeated, 10-time Group 1 winner Frankel. All of her first five foals have won races, including the Group winners Bullet Train and Noble Mission. Kind was trained by Roger Charlton and owned by Khalid Abdulla.

Kind (type theory)

In the area of mathematical logic and computer science known as type theory, a kind is the type of a type constructor or, less commonly, the type of a higher-order type operator. A kind system is essentially a simply typed lambda calculus "one level up", endowed with a primitive type, denoted  *  and called "type", which is the kind of any data type which does not need any type parameters.

A kind is sometimes confusingly described as the "type of a (data) type", but it is actually more of an arity specifier. Syntactically, it is natural to consider polymorphic types to be type constructors, thus non-polymorphic types to be nullary type constructors. But all nullary constructors, thus all monomorphic types, have the same, simplest kind; namely  * .

Since higher-order type operators are uncommon in programming languages, in most programming practice, kinds are used to distinguish between data types and the types of constructors which are used to implement parametric polymorphism. Kinds appear, either explicitly or implicitly, in languages whose type systems account for parametric polymorphism in a programatically accessible way, such as Haskell and Scala .

Kind (surname)

Kind is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Adolfo Kind (1848–1907), Swiss chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing
  • Andy Kind, British stand-up comedian
  • Johann Friedrich Kind (1768–1843), German dramatist
  • Paolo Kind, Italian ski jumper, son of Adolfo Kind
  • Richard Kind (born 1956), American actor
  • Ron Kind (born 1963), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
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Usage examples of "kind".

For it says there: He who has been involved in one kind or sect of heresy, or has erred in one article of the faith or sacrament of the Church, and has afterwards specifically and generally abjured his heresy: if thereafter he follows another kind or sect of heresy, or errs in another article or sacrament of the Church, it is our will that he be judged a backslider.

I can assure you I have quite a lot at my disposal all kinds of different spells fee faw fums, mumbo jumbos, abraxas, love potions, he glanced quickly at the queen here and added, though I see you have no need of the last of those, having a very beautiful wife whom you love to distraction.

To punish the exercise of this right to discuss public affairs or to penalize it through libel judgments is to abridge or shut off discussion of the very kind most needed.

He was less concerned with looking good than with avoiding the kind of spectacular abseiling that might put an extra load on the anchor and himself in the morgue.

Principle is not an absolute possession of the animal Kinds and is not even an absolute possession to all men.

She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality.

Pael, our tame Academician, had identified it as a fortress star from some kind of strangeness in its light.

If he had turned out to be the kind of asshole the name Acer implied, I would have had to crack him in the mouth.

Abram did, too, knowing Edie felt acertain kinship with that kind of woman.

Vesta resembles a kind of meteorite called a basaltic achondrite, while 16 Psyche and 22 Kalliope appear to be largely iron.

Since sulphuric acid and sulphates are predominant in waters of this kind, it is most convenient to report the acidity of the water as equivalent to so much sulphuric acid.

That is why he had me arrange to send a different, kind of primrose to the Acme Florists.

Camille had no other lovers--an astonishing thing in an actress of the kind, but being full of tact and wit she drove none of her admirers to despair.

In the kind of universe Herbert sees, where there are no final answers, and no absolute security, adaptability in all its forms-- from engineering improvisation to social mobility to genetic variability--is essential.

These being considered, the house ordered the lords of the admiralty to produce the other memorials of the same kind which they had received, that they might be laid before the congress at Soissons: then they addressed his majesty for copies of all the letters and instructions which had been sent to admiral Hosier, and those who succeeded him in the command of the West-India squadron.