Sort

sort, n. a number of persons or things having like qualities: cla , kind, or species: order or rank: manner.— v.t. to separate into lots or cla es: to put together: to select: to procure, adapt: to geld: ( Scot. ) to adjust, put right, dispose, fix: to punish.— v.i. to be joined with others of the same sort: to a ociate: to suit.— adj. Sort′able , capable of being sorted: ( Bacon ) suitable, befitting.— ns. Sort′ance ( Shak. ), suitablene , agreement; Sort′er , one who separates and arranges, as letters; Sort′es , lots used in divination by pa ages selected by hazard from the Bible, Homer, Virgil, .; Sort′ilege , the act or practice of divination by drawing lots; Sorti′tion , the casting of lots; Sort′ment , act of sorting.— In a sort ( Shak. ), in a manner; In sort , inasmuch as; Out of sorts , out of order, unwell: ( print. ) with some sorts of type in the font exhausted. [O. Fr. sorte —L. sors , sort is , a lot— serĕre , to join.]