Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GEN'TLE-NESS, n. [See Gentle.]

1. Dignity of birth. [Little used.]
2. Genteel behavior. [Obs.]
3. Softness of manners; mildness of temper; sweetness of disposition; meekness. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. Gal; v.
4. Kindness; benevolence. [Obs.] Shak.
5. Tenderness; mild treatment.

GEN'TLE-SHIP, n.

The deportment of a gentleman. [Obs.] Ascham.

GEN'TLE-WO-MAN, n. [gentle and woman.]

1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.
2. A woman who waits about the person of one of high rank.
3. A term of civility to a female, sometimes ironical. Dryden.

GEN'TLE-WO-MAN-LIKE, a.

Becoming a gentlewoman.

GEN'TLY, adv.

1. Softly; meekly; mildly; with tenderness. My mistress gently chides the fault I made. Dryden.
2. Without violence, roughness or asperity. Shak.

GEN-TOO', n. [Port. gentio, a gentile.]

A native of India or Hindoostan; one who follows the religion of the Bramins. [Not used in India.] Encyc.

GEN'TRY, n.

1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. Shak.
2. People of education and good breeding. In Great Britain, the classes of people between the nobility and the vulgar.
3. A term of civility; civility; complaisance. [Obs.]

GE-NU-FLEC'TION, n. [L. genu, the knee, and flectio, a bending.]

The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship. Stillingfleet.

GEN'U-INE, a. [L. genuinus, from genus, or its root. See Gender]

Native; belonging to the original stock; hence, real; natural; true; pure; not spurious, false, or adulterated. The Gaels are supposed to be genuine descendants of the Celts. Vices and crimes are the genuine effects of depravity, as virtue and piety are the genuine fruits of holiness. It is supposed we have the genuine text of Homer.

GEN'U-INE-LY, adv.

Without adulteration or foreign admixture; naturally. Boyle.

GEN'U-INE-NESS, n.

The state of being native, or of the true original; hence, freedom from adulteration or foreign admixture; freedom from any thing false or counterfeit; purity; reality; as, the genuineness of Livy's history the genuineness of faith or repentance. [Bp. Watson, in his Apology for the Bible, considers authenticity and genuineness to be quite distinct, the former referring to the correctness of the facts detailed, and the latter to the authorship of the book containing them; while on the other hand they are used by Bishop Marsh as synonymous. – E. H. B.]

GE'NUS, n. [plur. Genuses or Genera. L. genus, Gr. γενος, Ir. gein, offspring, race or family, Sans. jana; hence, kind, sort. See Gender.]

1. In logic, that which has several species under it; a class of a greater extent than species; a universal which is predicable of several things of different species. Cyc.
2. In natural history, an assemblage of species possessing certain characters in common, by which they are distinguished from all others. It is subordinate to class and order, and in some arrangements, to tribe and family. A single species, possessing certain peculiar characters, which belong to no other species, may also constitute a genus; as the camelopard, and the flamingo.
3. In botany, a genus consists of such a group or assemblage of species as agree both structurally and physiologically, as respects the organs of fructification, reproduction or perpetuation, and at the same time have a general resemblance in habit.

GE-O-CEN'TRIC, a. [Gr. γη, earth, and κεντρον, center.]

Having the earth for its center, or the same center with the earth. The word is applied to a planet or its orbit. Harris. Encyc.

GE'ODE, n. [Gr. γαιωδης, earthy, from γαια or γη, earth. Plin. gæodes, lib. 36, I9.]

In mineralogy, a round or roundish lump of agate or other mineral, or a mere incrustation. Its interior is sometimes empty, and in this case the sides of its cavity are lined with crystals, as in agate balls. Sometimes it contains a solid movable nucleus; and sometimes it is filled with an earthy matter different from the envelop. Cleaveland.

GE-O-DE'SIC, or GE-O-DE'SIC-AL, a.

Geodetic. Sedgwick.

GE-OD'E-SY, n. [Gr. γεωδαισια; γεα, the earth, and δαιω, to divide.]

That part of geometry which respects the doctrine of measuring surfaces, and finding the contents of all plain figures. Harris.

GE-O-DET'IC, or GE-O-DET'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to the art of measuring surfaces.

GE-O-DIF'ER-OUS, a. [geode, and L. fero.]

Producing geodes.

GE'OG-NOST, n. [See Geognosy.]

One versed in geognosy; a geologist.

GE-OG-NOS'TIC, a.

Pertaining to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological.

GE-OG'NO-SY, n. [Gr. γη, the earth, and γνωσις, knowledge.]

That part of natural history which treats of the structure of the earth. It is the science of the substances which compose the earth or its crust, their structure, position, relative situation, and properties. Cleaveland. [This word originated among the German mineralogists, and is nearly synonymous with geology; But some writers consider geognosy as only a branch of geology; including in the latter, hydrography, geogony, meteorology, and even geography.

GE-O-GON'IC, a.

Pertaining to geogony, or the formation of the earth. Humboldt.

GE-OG'O-NY, n. [Gr. γη, the earth, and γονη, generation.]

The doctrine of the formation of the earth.

GE-OG'RA-PHER, n. [See Geography.]

One who describes that part of this globe or earth, which is exhibited upon the surface, as the continents, isles, ocean, seas, lakes, rivers, mountains, countries, &c. One who is versed in geography, or one who compiles a treatise on the subject.

GE-O-GRAPH'IC, or GE-O-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.

Relating to or containing a description of the terraqueous globe; pertaining to geography.