| • | Chance; lot; destiny. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Manner; form of being or acting. |
| • | Condition above the vulgar; rank. |
| • | A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. |
| • | A pair; a set; a suit. |
| • | Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To reduce to order from a confused state. |
| • | To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. |
| • | To choose from a number; to select; to cull. |
| • | To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. |
| • | To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree. |
| • | To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. |
