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.