The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kith \Kith\ (k[i^]th), n. [OE. kith, cu[eth], AS. c[=y][eth][eth]e, c[=y][eth], native land, fr. c[=u][eth] known. [root]45. See Uncouth, Can, and cf. Kythe.] Acquaintance; kindred.
And my near kith for that will sore me shend.
--W.
Browne.
The sage of his kith and the hamlet.
--Longfellow.
Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.
Wiktionary
n. both friends and family
Usage examples of "kith and kin".
Meanwhile we'd best get off the range of your superior kith and kin before they kill us both in some fine old traditional way you'd never want them to forsake.
Now that I've a better-paying job I only eat them, the same as you and all your kith and kin.
Boss Tweed took care of his kith and kin in New York City, and Boss Buckley is still taking care of his kith and kin out Frisco way.
The savages received him as though he had been one of their own kith and kin, and readily exchanged corn with him, for powder and bullets.
Hale summoned me to him, and before God did pledge me most solemnly to stand by him and not to compromise, even if all kith and kin were destroyed.
But a simple pre-arranged code could be almost impossible to break because it worked the way kith and kin might talk when they didn't want the kids to know just what they were saying.
No, of course not, not if one desired to hide one's true kith and kin away!