Kin

n.	1.	(Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
	1.	Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
	2.	Relatives; persons of the same family or race. The father, mother, and the kin beside. - Dryden. You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons. - Bacon.
	1.	(Physics) The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system - a velocity of one centimeter per second.
a.	1.	Of the same nature or kind; kinder.

Noun	1.	kin - a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family" Synonyms: kinsperson, family
	2.	kin - group of people related by blood or marriage Synonyms: clan, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe
Adj.	1.	kin - related by blood Synonyms: blood-related, consanguine, consanguineous, akin, cognate

agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bracket, branch, brand, breed, cast, caste, category, character, clan, clansman, class, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, color, connections, consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, cousinhood, denomination, description, designation, distaff side, distant relation, division, enate, estate, feather, flesh, flesh and blood, folk, form, genre, genus, german, grade, grain, group, grouping, head, heading, ilk, kidney, kind, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, label, level, line, lineage, lot, make, manner, mark, mold, nature, near relation, next of kin, number, order, people, persuasion, phylum, pigeonhole, position, posterity, predicament, race, rank, rating, related, relation, relations, rubric, section, sept, set, shape, sib, sibling, sort, spear kin, spear side, species, spindle kin, spindle side, stamp, station, status, stock, strain, stratum, stripe, style, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, sword side, the like of, the likes of, title, tribe, tribesman, type, uterine kin, variety