KINCHINJUNGA

kinchinjunga, or kanchanjanga, the third (or second; see k2) highest mountain in the world. it is a peak of the eastern himalayas, situated on the boundary between sikkim and nepal, with an elevation of 28,146 ft. kinchinjunga is best seen from the indian hill-station of darjeeling, where the view of this stupendous mountain, dominating all intervening ranges and rising from regions of tropical undergrowth to the altitude of eternal snows, is one of the grandest in the world. kind (o.e. _ge-cynde_, from the same root as is seen in "kin," _supra_), a word in origin meaning birth, nature, or as an adjective, natural. from the application of the term to the natural disposition or characteristic which marks the class to which an object belongs, the general and most common meaning of "class," genus or species easily develops; that of race, natural order or group, is particularly seen in such expressions as "mankind." the phrase "payment in kind," i.e. in goods or produce as distinguished from money, is used as equivalent to the latin _in specie_; in ecclesiastical usage "communion in both kinds" or "in one kind" refers to the elements of bread and wine (lat. _species_) in the eucharist. the present main sense of the adjective "kind," i.e. gentle, friendly, benevolent, has developed from the meaning "born," "natural," through "of good birth, disposition or nature," "naturally well-disposed."