Sort

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Chance; lot; destiny.

II. Sort ·noun A pair; a set; a suit.

III. Sort ·noun Manner; form of being or acting.

IV. Sort ·noun Condition above the vulgar; rank.

V. Sort ·vt To reduce to order from a confused state.

VI. Sort ·vt To choose from a number; to Select; to Cull.

VII. Sort ·noun Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.

VIII. Sort ·vt To Conjoin; to put together in distribution; to Class.

IX. Sort ·noun A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.

X. Sort ·vt To Conform; to Adapt; to Accommodate.

XI. Sort ·vi To join or associate with others, ·esp. with others of the same kind or species; to Agree.

XII. Sort ·vi To Suit; to Fit; to be in accord; to Harmonize.

XIII. Sort ·vt To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.

XIV. Sort ·noun 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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