Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GEN'ER-A-TIVE, a.

1. Hating the power of generating or propagating its own species. Ralegh.
2. Having the power of producing. Bentley.
3. Prolific. Bentley.

GEN'ER-A-TOR, n.

1. Ike or that which begets, causes or produces.
2. In music, the principal sound or sounds by which others are produced. Thus the lowest C for the treble of the harpsichord, besides its octave, will strike an attentive ear with its twelfth above, or G in alt., and with its seventeenth above, or E in alt. Hence C is called their generator, the G and E its products or harmonics. Encyc.
3. A vessel in which steam is generated. Perkins.

GE-NER'IC, or GE-NER'IC-AL, a. [It. and Sp; generieo; Fr. generique; from L. genus.]

Pertaining to a genus or kind; comprehending the genus, as distinct from species, or from another genus. A generic description is a description of a genus; a generic difference is a difference in genus; a generic name is the denomination which comprehends all the species, as of animals, plants or fossils, which have certain essential and peculiar characters in common; Thus Canis is the generic name of animals of the; dog kind; Felis, of the cat kind; Cervus, of the deer kind.

GEN'ER'IC-AL-LY, adv.

With regard to genus; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals generically allied. Woodward.

GEN-ER-OS'I-TY, n. [Fr. generosite; L. generositas, from genus, race, kind, with reference to birth, blood, family.]

1. The quality of being generous; liberality in principle; a disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors; a quality of the heart or mind opposed to meanness or parsimony.
2. Liberality in act; bounty.
3. Nobleness of soul. magnanimity. [This is the primary sense, bat is now little used.]

GEN'ER-OUS, a. [L. generosus; Fr. genereux, from genus, birth, extraction, family. See Gender.]

1. Primarily, being of honorable birth or origin; hence, noble; honorable; magnanimous; applied fo persons; as, a generous foe; a generous critic.
2. Noble; honorable; applied to things; as, a generous virtue; generous boldness; It is used also to denote like qualities in irrational animals; as, a generous pack of hounds. Addison.
3. Liberal; bountiful; munificent; free to give; as, a generous friend; a generous father.
4. Strong; full of spirit; as, generous wine. Boyle. Swift.
5. Full; overflowing; abundant; as, a generous cup; a generous table.
6. Sprightly; courageous; as, a generous steed.

GEN'ER-OUS-LY, adv.

1. Honorably; not meanly.
2. Nobly; magnanimously. Dryden.
3. Literally; munificently.

GENER-OUS-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being generous; magnanimity; nobleness of mind.
2. Liberality; munificence; generosity.

GEN'E-SIS, n. [Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, {foreign}. See Gender.]

1. The first book of the sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament, containing the history of the creation, of the apostasy of man, of the deluge, and of the first patriarchs, to the death of Joseph; In the original Hebrew, this hook has no title; the present title was prefixed to it by those who translated it into Greek.
2. In geometry, the formation of a line, plane or solid, by the e motion or flux of a point, line or surface. Encyc.

GEN'ET, n. [Fr.]

A small-sized, well-proportioned Spanish horse. Johnson. An animal of the weasel kind, less than the martin.

GEN-ETH-LI'AC-AL, or GEN-ETH'LI-AC, a. [Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, to be born.]

Pertaining to nativities as calculated hy astrologers; showing the positions of the stars at the birth of any person. [Little used.] Howell.

GEN-ETH'LI-ACS, n.

The science of articulating nativities or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at the birth of persons. [Little used.] Johnson.

GEN-ETH-LI-AT'IC, n.

He who calculates nativities. [Little used.] Drummond.

GE-NE'VA, n. [Fr. genevre or genievre, a juniper-berry; It. ginepra; Arm; genevra; The Spanish word is nebrina, and the tree is called enebro, Port. zimbro.]

A spirit distilled from grain or malt, with the addition of juniper-berries. But instead of these berries, the spirit is now flavored with. the oil of turpentine. The word is usually contracted and pronounced gin. Encyc.

GE-NE'VAN, a.

1. Pertaining to Geneva.
2. n. An inhabitant of Geneva.

GE-NE'VAN-ISM, n. [from Geneva, where Calvin resided.]

Calvinism. Mountagu.

GENE-VOIS, n. plur.

jeneva'y. People of Geneva. Addison.

GE'NI-AL, a. [L. genialis, from geno, gigno, Gr. goadee, {foreign}.]

1. Contributing to propagation or production; that causes to produce. Creator, Venus, genial power of love. Dryden.
2. Gay; merry. Warton.
3. Enlivening; contributing to life and cheerfulness; supporting life. So much I feel my genial spirits droops Milton.
4. Native; natural [Not usual.] Brown. The genial gods, in pagan antiquity, were supposed to pre-side over generation, as earth, air, fire and water.

GE-NI-AL'I-TY, n.

Gayety; cheerfulness.

GENI-AL-LY, adv.

1. By genius or nature; naturally. [Little used.] Glanville.
2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.

GE-NIC'U-LATE, v.t.

To form joints or knots. Cockeram.

GE-NIC'U-LA-TED, a. [L. geniculates, from geniculum, a knot or joint, from the root of genu, the knee. See Knee.]

Kneed; knee-jointed; having joints like the knee a little bent; as, a geniculated stem or peduncle. Martyn.

GE-NIC'U-LA-TING, ppr.

Knotting; jointing.

GE-NIC-U-LATION, n.

Knottiness; the state of having knots or joints like a knee. Johnson.

GE'NI-I, n. [L. plur.]

A sort of imaginary intermediate beings between men and angels; some good and some bad. Encyc.