Definition

Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.] By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance]. Chaucer. Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. Shak.

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SORT (verb)

1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sor...