Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GENER-OUS-NESS, n.

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

GEN'E-SIS, n. [Gr. γενεσις, from γενναω, γινομαι. 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 book 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 motion or flux of a point, line or surface. Encyc.

GEN'ET, n. [Fr.]

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

GEN-ETH-LI'AC-AL, or GEN-ETH'LI-AC, a. [Gr. γενεθλιακος, from γινομαι, to be born.]

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

GEN-ETH'LI-ACS, n.

The science of calculating 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'VA-BI-BLE, n.

A copy of the Bible in English, printed at Geneva; first in 1560. This copy was in common use in England, till the version made by order of King James was introduced, and it was laid aside by the Calvinists with reluctance.

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.

GEN-E-VOIS, n. [plur. jeneva'y.]

People of Geneva. Addison.

GE'NI-AL, a. [L. genialis, from geno, gigno, Gr. γενναω, γινομαι.]

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 droop. Milton.
4. Native; natural [Not usual.] Brown. The genial gods, in pagan antiquity, were supposed to preside over generation, as earth, air, fire and water.

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

Gayety; cheerfulness.

GE'NI-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. geniculatus, 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.

GE'NI-O, n. [It. from L. genius.]

A man of a particular turn of mind. Tatler.

GEN'I-TAL, a. [L. genitalis, from the root of gigno, Gr. γενναω, to beget.]

Pertaining to generation or the act of begetting.

GEN'I-TALS, n. [plur.]

The parts of an animal which are the immediate instruments of generation.

GEN'I-TING, n. [Fr. janeton.]

A species of apple that ripens very early.

GEN'I-TIVE, a. [L. genitivus, from the root of gender.]

In grammar, an epithet given to a case in the declension of nouns, expressing primarily the thing from which something else proceeds; as, filius patris, the son of a father; aqua fontis, the water of a fountain; But by custom this case expresses other relations, particularly possession or ownership; as, animi magnitudo, greatness of mind, greatness possessed by or inherent in the mind. This case often expresses also that which proceeds from something else; as, pater septem filiorum, the father of seven sons.

GEN'I-TOR, n.

One who procreates; a sire; a father. Sheldon.