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s6rt, n. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized dip in by the same or like quantities; manner; form of being or acting; degree of any quality, pi. (Print.); end, eve, term; to, Ice; Odd, t5ne, 6r; Letters, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats of particular kinds. — v. t. To separate (things having like qualities) from other things, and place in distinct cla es or divisions; to reduce to order from a state of confusion; to conjoin, put together in distribution; to select, cull.— v. i. To be joined with others of the same species, agree; to consort, a ociate, conjoin to; suit, fit; to terminate, have succe , fall out. — Out of sorts. {Print.) With some letters, or sorts of type, in the font, deficient or exhausted; hence, in ill-humor; unwell.— To run upon sorts. (.Print.) To use or require a greater number of some particular letters or marks than the regular proportion.— Sort 'able, a. Capable of being sorted. — Sort'er, n. — Sor'tilege, -tl-lej, n. Act or practice of drawing lots; divination bv drawing lots. 411