GEAL, verb intransitive [Latin gelo.] To congeal.

GEAR, noun

1. Apparatus; whatever is prepared; hence, habit; dress; ornaments.

Array thyself in her most gorgeous gear

2. More generally, the harness or furniture of beasts; whatever is used in equipping horses or cattle for draught; tackle.

3. In Scotland, warlike accouterments; also, goods, riches.

4. Business; matters.

5. By seamen pronounced jears, which see.

GEAR, verb transitive To dress; to put on gear; to harness.

GE'ARED, participle passive Dressed; harnessed.

GE'ARING, participle present tense Dressing; harnessing.

GE'ASON, noun s as z. Rare; uncommon; wonderful.

GEAT, noun The hole through which metal runs into a mold in castings.

GECK, noun A dupe.

GECK, verb transitive To cheat, trick or gull.

GEE

GEESE, noun plural of goose.

GEESE, n. plu. of goose.

GEEST, noun Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.

GEHEN'NA, noun [Heb. ge-hinom, the valley of Hinom, in which was Tophet, where the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch. 2 Kings 23:10.]

This word has been used by the Jews as equivalent to hell, place of fire or torment and punishment, and the Greek word is rendered by our translators by hell and hell-fire. Matthew 18:9. 23.15.

GEHLENITE, noun [from Gehlen, the chimist.]

A mineral recently discovered, in the description of which authors are not perfectly agreed. According to the description and analysis of Fuchs, it appears to be a variety of idocrase; but according to the observations of Prof. Clarke, it is probably a new species.

GEL'ABLE, adjective [from Latin gelu, frost, or gelo, to congeal.]

That may or can be congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.

GEL'ATIN, noun [Latin gelo, to congeal, to freeze.]

A concrete animal substance, transparent, and soluble slowly in cold water, but rapidly in warm water. With tannin, a yellowish white precipitate is thrown down from a solution of gelatin which forms and elastic adhesive mass, not unlike vegetable gluten, and is a compound of tannin and gelatin

GEL'ATIN

GELAT'INATE, verb intransitive To be converted into gelatin or into a substance like jelly.

Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids.

GELAT'INATE, verb transitive To convert into gelatin or into a substance resembling jelly.

GELATINA'TION, noun The act or process of converting or being turned into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly.

GEL'ATINIZE, verb intransitive The same as gelatinate.

GELAT'INOUS, adjective Of the nature and consistence of gelatin; resembling jelly; viscous; moderately stiff and cohesive.

GELD, noun Money; tribute; compensation. This word is obsolete in English, but it occurs in old laws and law books in composition; as in Danegeld, or Danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; Weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc.

GELD. verb transitive preterit tense gelded or gelt; participle passive gelded or gelt.

1. To castrate; to emasculate.

2. To deprive of any essential part.

3. To deprive of any thing immodest or exceptionable.

GELD'ED

GELD'ER, noun One who castrates.

GELD'ER, n. One who castrates.

GELD'ING, participle present tense Castrating.

GELD'ING, noun A castrated animal, but chiefly a horse.

GEL'ID, adjective [Latin gelidus, from gelo, to freeze.] Cold; very cold.

GEL'IDNESS, noun Coldness.

GEL'LY, noun [Latin gelo, gelatus. It is now more generally written jelly.]

1. The inspissated juice of fruit boiled with sugar.

2. A viscous or glutinous substance; a gluey substance, soft, but cohesive. [See Jelly.]

GELT, participle passive Of geld.

GELT, noun For gelding. [Not used.]

GELT, for gilt. Tinsel, or gilt surface. [Not used.]

GELT, participle passive Castrated; emasculated.

GEM, noun [Latin gemma.]

1. A bud. In botany, the bud or compendium of a plant, covered with scales to protect the rudiments from the cold of winter and other injuries; called the hybernacle or winter quarters of a plant.

2. A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, topaz, emerald, etc.

GEM, verb transitive To adorn with gems, jewels or precious stones.

1. To bespangle; as foliage gemmed with dew drops.

2. To embellish with detached beauties.

England is studded and gemmed with castles and palaces.

GEM, verb intransitive To bud; to germinate.

GEMAR'A, noun The second part of the Talmud or commentary on the Jewish laws.

GEMAR'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Gemara.

GEM'EL, noun [Latin gemellus.] A pair; a term inheraldry.

GEMELLIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin gemellus and pario.] Producing twins.

GEM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin gemino.] To double. [Little used.]

GEMINA'TION, noun A doubling; duplication; repetition.

GEM'INI, noun plural [Latin] Twins. In astronomy, a constellation or sign of the zodiac, representing Castor and Pollux. In the Britannic catalogue, it contains 85 stars.

GEM'INOUS, adjective [Latin geminus.] Double; in pairs.

GEM'INY, noun [supra.] Twins; a pair; a couple.

GEM'MARY, adjective [from gem.] Pertaining to gems or jewels.

GEMMA'TION, noun [Latin gemmatio, from gemma.]

In botany, budding; the state, form or construction of the bud of plants, of the leaves, stipules, petioles or scales.

GEM'MEOUS, adjective [Latin gemmeus.] Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems.

GEMMIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin gemma, a bud, and pario, to bear.]

Producing buds or gems.

GEM'MULE, noun A little gem or bud.

GEM'MY, adjective Bright; glittering; full of gems.

1. Neat; spruce; smart.

GEMO'TE, noun A meeting. [See Meet.]

GEMS'BOK, noun The name given to a variety of the antelope.

GEND'ARM, noun In France, gens d'armes is the denomination given to a select body of troops, destined to watch over the interior public safety. In the singular, gendarme, as written by Lunier, is properly anglicized gendarm

GEND'ARMERY, noun [supra.] The body of gendarms.

GEN'DER, noun [Latin genus, from geno, gigno; Gr.to beget, or to be born; Eng. kind. Gr. a woman, a wife; Sans. gena, a wife, and genaga, a father. We have begin from the same root. See Begin and Can.]

1. Properly, kind; sort.

2. A sex, male or female. Hence,

3. In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender

GEN'DER, verb transitive To beget; but engender is more generally used.

GEN'DER, verb intransitive To copulate; to breed. Leviticus 19:19.

GENEALOG'ICAL, adjective [from genealogy.]

1. Pertaining to the descent of persons or families; exhibiting the succession of families from a progenitor; as a genealogical table.

2. According to the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; as genealogical order.

GENEAL'OGIST, noun He who traces descents of persons or families.

GENEAL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To relate the history of descents.

GENEAL'OGY, noun [Latin genealogia; Gr. race, and discourse; Eng. kind.]

1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession.

2. Pedigree; lineage; regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor.

GEN'ERABLE, adjective That may be engendered, begotten or produced.

GEN'ERAL, adjective [Latin generalis, from genus, a kind.]

1. Properly, relating to a whole genus or kind; and hence, relating to a whole class or order. Thus we speak of a general law of the animal or vegetable economy. This word, though from genus, kind, is used to express whatever is common to an order, class, kind, sort or species, or to any company or association of individuals.

2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; as, it is not logical to draw a general inference or conclusion from a particular fact.

3. Lax in signification; not restrained or limited to a particular import; not specific; as a loose and general expression.

4. Public; common; relating to or comprehending the whole community; as the general interest or safety of a nation.

5. Common to many or the greatest number; as a general opinion; a general custom.

6. Not directed to a single object.

If the same thing be peculiarly evil, that general aversion will be turned into a particular hatred against it.

7. Having a relation to all; common to the whole. Adam, our general sire.

8. Extensive, though not universal; common; usual.

This word is prefixed or annexed to words, to express the extent of their application. Thus a general assembly is an assembly of a whole body, in fact or by representation. In Scotland, it is the whole church convened by its representatives. In America, a legislature is sometimes called a general assembly.

In logic, a general term is a term which is the sign of a general idea.

An attorney general and a solicitor general is an officer who conducts suits and prosecutions for the king or for a nation or state, and whose authority is general in the state or kingdom.

A vicar general has authority as vicar or substitute over a whole territory or jurisdiction.

An adjutant general assists the general of an army, distributes orders, receives returns, etc.

The word general thus annexed to a name of office, denotes chief or superior; as a commissary general quarter-master general

In the line, a general officer is one who commands an army, a division or a brigade.

GEN'ERAL, noun The whole; the total; that which comprehends all or the chief part; opposed to particular.

In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals.

A history painter paints man in general

1. In general in the main; for the most part; not always or universally.

I have shown that he excels, in general under each of these heads.

2. The chief commander of an army. But to distinguish this officer from other generals, he is often called general in chief. The officer second in rank is called lieutenant general

3. The commander of a division of an army or militia, usually called a major general

4. The commander of a brigade, called a brigadier general

5. A particular beat of drum or march, being that which, in the morning, gives notice for the infantry to be in readiness to march.

6. The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations established under the same rule.

7. The public; the interest of the whole; the vulgar. [Not in use.]

GENERALIS'SIMO, noun The chief commander of an army or military force.

1. The supreme commander; sometimes a title of honor; as Alexander generalissimo of Greece.

GENERAL'ITY, noun

1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.

2. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as the generality of a nation or of mankind.

GENERALIZA'TION, noun The act of extending from particulars to generals; the act of making general.

GEN'ERALIZE, verb transitive To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number.

Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.

1. To reduce to a genus.

GEN'ERALLY, adverb In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently, but not without exceptions. A hot summer generally follows a cold winter. Men are generally more disposed to censure than to praise, as they generally suppose it easier to depress excellence in others than to equal or surpass it by elevating themselves.

1. In the main; without detail; in the whole taken together.

Generally speaking, they live very quietly.

GEN'ERALNESS, noun Wide extent, though short of universality; frequency; commonness.

GEN'ERALSHIP, noun The skill and conduct of a general officer; military skill in a commander, exhibited in the judicious arrangements of troops, or the operations of war.

GEN'ERALTY, noun The whole; the totality. [Little used.]

GEN'ERANT, noun [Latin generans.] The power that generates; the power or principle that produces.

GEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin genero. See Gender.]

1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce a being similar to the parent. Every animal generates his own species.

2. To produce; to cause to be; to bring into life; as great whales which the waters generated.

3. To cause; to produce; to form.

Sounds are generated where there is no air at all.

Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle, must likewise generate milk.

In music, any given sound generates with itself its octave and two other sounds extremely sharp, viz, its twelfth above or the octave of its fifth, and the seventeenth above.

GEN'ERATED, participle passive Begotten; engendered; procreated; produced; formed.

GEN'ERATING, participle present tense Begetting; procreating; producing; forming.

GENERA'TION, noun The act of begetting; procreation, as of animals.

1. Production; formation; as the generation of sounds or of curves or equations.

2. A single succession in natural descent, as the children of the same parents; hence, an age. Thus we say, the third, the fourth, or the tenth generation Genesis 15:16.

3. The people of the same period, or living at the same time.

O faithless and perverse generation Luke 9:41.

4. Genealogy; a series of children or descendants from the same stock.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. Genesis 5:1.

5. A family; a race.

6. Progeny; offspring.

GEN'ERATIVE, adjective Having the power of generating or propagating its own species.

1. Having the power of producing.

2. Prolific.

GEN'ERATOR, noun He or that which begets, causes or produces.

1. 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.

2. A vessel in which steam is generated.

GENER'IC

GENER'ICAL, adjective [Latin 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.

GENER'ICALLY, adverb With regard to genus; as an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals generically allied.

GENEROS'ITY, noun [Latin 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, but is now little used.]

GEN'EROUS, adjective [Latin generosus. See Gender.]

1. Primarily, being of honorable birth or origin; hence, noble; honorable; magnanimous; applied to 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.

3. Liberal; bountiful; munificent; free to give; as a generous friend; a generous father.

4. Strong; full of spirit; as generous wine.

5. Full; overflowing; abundant; as a generous cup; a generous table.

6. Sprightly; courageous; as a generous steed.

GEN'EROUSLY, adverb Honorable; not meanly.

1. Nobly; magnanimously.

2. Liberally; munificently.

GEN'EROUSNESS, noun The quality of being generous; magnanimity; nobleness of mind.

1. Liberality; munificence; generosity.

GEN'ESIS, noun [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.

GEN'ET, noun A small-sized, well-proportioned Spanish horse.

1. An animal of the weasel kind, less than the martin.

GENETH'LIAC , adjective [Gr. to be born.]

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

GENETHLI'ACAL

GENETH'LIACS, noun The science of calculating nativities or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at the birth of persons. [Little used.]

GENETH'LIACS, 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.]

GENETHLIAT'IC, noun He who calculates nativities. [Little used.]

GENE'VA, noun 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.

GENE'VANISM, noun [from Geneva, where Calvin resided.] Calvinism.

GENEVOIS, noun plural jeneva'y. People of Geneva.

GE'NIAL, adjective [Latin genialis, from geno, gigno, ]

1. Contributing to propagation or production; that causes to produce.

Creator, Venus, genial power of love.

2. Gay; merry.

3. Enlivening; contributing to life and cheerfulness; supporting life.

So much I feel my genial spirits droop.

4. Native; natural. [Not usual.]

The genial gods, in pagan antiquity, were supposed to preside over generation, as earth, air, fire and water.

GE'NIALLY, adverb By genius or nature; naturally. [Little used.]

1. Gayly; cheerfully.

GENIC'ULATED, adjective [Latin 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.

GENICULA'TION, noun Knottiness; the state of having knots or joints like a knee.

GE'NII, noun [Latin plural ] A sort of imaginary intermediate beings between men and angels; some good and some bad.

GE'NIO, noun [Latin genius.] A man of a particular turn of mind.

GEN'ITAL, adjective [Latin genitalis, from the root of gigno; Gr. to beget.]

Pertaining to generation or the act of begetting.

GEN'ITALS, noun plural The parts of an animal which are the immediate instruments of generation.

GEN'ITING, noun A species of apple that ripens very early.

GEN'ITIVE, adjective [Latin 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'ITOR, noun One who procreates; a sire; a father.

GEN'ITURE, noun Generation; procreation; birth.

GE'NIUS, noun [Latin from the root of gigno; Gr. to beget.]

1. Among the ancients, a good or evil spirit or demon supposed to preside over a man's destiny in life, that is, to direct his birth and actions and be his guard and guide; a tutelary deity; the ruling and protecting power of men, places or things. This seems to be merely a personification or deification of the particular structure or bent of mind which a man receives from nature, which is the primary signification of the word.

2. The peculiar structure of mind which is given by nature to an individual, or that disposition or bent of mind which is peculiar to every man, and which qualifies him for a particular employment; a particular natural talent or aptitude of mind for a particular study or course of life; as a genius for history, for poetry or painting.

3. Strength of mind; uncommon powers of intellect, particularly the power of invention. In this sense we say, Homer was a man of genius Hence,

4. A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties. Shakespeare was a rare-genius.

5. Mental powers or faculties. [See No.2.]

6. Nature; disposition; peculiar character; as the genius of the times.

GENT, adjective Elegant; pretty; gentle. [Not in use.]

GENTEE'L, adjective [Latin gentilis, from gens, race, stock, family, and with the sense of noble or at least respectable birth, as we use birth and family.]

1. Polite; well bred; easy and graceful in manners or behavior; having the manners of well bred people; as genteel company; genteel guests.

2. Polite; easy and graceful; becoming well bred persons; as genteel manners or behavior; a genteel address.

3. Graceful in mein or form; elegant; as the lady has a genteel person.

4. Elegantly dressed.

5. Decorous; refined; free from any thing low or vulgar; as genteel comedy.

GENTEE'LLY, adverb Politely; gracefully; elegantly; in the manner of well bred people.

GENTEE'LNESS, adjective Gracefulness of manners or person; elegance; politeness. We speak of the genteelness of a person or of his deportment.

1. Qualities befitting a person of rank.

GEN'TIAN, noun [Latin gentiana.] A genus of plants, of many species. The common gentian is a native of the mountainous parts of Germany. The root, the only part used, has a yellowish brown color and a very bitter taste, and is used as an ingredient in stomachic bitters. It is sometimes called felwort.

GEN'TIL, noun A species of falcon or hawk.

GEN'TILE, noun [Latin gentilis; from Latin gens, nation, race; applied to pagans.]

In the scriptures, a pagan; a worshipper of false gods; any person not a Jew or a christian; a heathen. The Hebrews included in the term goim or nations, all the tribes of men who had not received the true faith, and were not circumcised. The christians translated goim by the Latin gentes, and imitated the Jews in giving the name gentiles to all nations who were not Jews nor christians. In civil affairs, the denomination was given to all nations who were not Romans.

GEN'TILE, adjective Pertaining to pagans or heathens.

GENTILESSE, noun Complaisance. [Not in use.]

GEN'TILISH, adjective Heathenish; pagan.

GEN'TILISM, noun Heathenism; paganism; the worship of false gods.

GENTILI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin gentilitius, from gens.]

1. Peculiar to a people or nation; national.

2. Hereditary; entailed on a family.

GENTIL'ITY, noun

1. Politeness of manners; easy, graceful behavior; the manners of well bred people; genteelness.

2. Good extraction; dignity of birth.

3. Gracefulness of mien.

4. Gentry. [Not in use.]

5. Paganism; heathenism. [Not in use.]

GEN'TILIZE, verb intransitive To live like a heathen.

GEN'TLE, adjective [See Genteel.] Well born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble; as the studies of noble and gentle youth; gentle blood.

1. Mild; meek; soft; bland; not rough, harsh or severe; as a gentle nature, temper or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice. 1 Thessalonians 2:7. 1 Thessalonians 2:7.

2. Tame; peaceable; not wild, turbulent or refractory; as a gentle horse or beast.

3. Soothing; pacific.

4. Treating with mildness; not violent.

A gentle hand may lead the elephant with a hair.

GEN'TLE, noun A gentleman.

1. A kind of worm.

GEN'TLE, verb transitive To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar.

GEN'TLEFOLK, noun [gentle and folk.] Persons of good breeding and family. It is now used only in the plural, gentlefolks, and this use is vulgar.

GEN'TLEMAN, adjective [gentle, that is, genteel, and man. See Genteel.]

1. In its most extensive sense, in Great Britain, every man above the rank of yeomen, comprehending noblemen. In a more limited sense, a man, who without a title, bears a coat of arms, or whose ancestors have been freemen. In this sense, gentlemen hold a middle rank between the nobility and yeomanry.

2. In the United States, where titles and distinctions of rank do not exist, the term is applied to men of education and of good breeding, of every occupation. Indeed this is also the popular practice in Great Britain. Hence,

3. A man of good breeding, politeness, and civil manners, as distinguished from the vulgar and clownish.

A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

4. A term of complaisance. In the plural, the appellation by which men are addressed in popular assemblies, whatever may be their condition or character.

5. In Great Britain, the servant of a man of rank, who attends his person.

GEN'TLEMANLIKE

GEN'TLEMANLINESS, noun Behavior of a well bred man.

GEN'TLEMANLINESS, n. Behavior of a well bred man.

GEN'TLEMANLY , adjective Pertaining to or becoming a gentleman, or a man of good family and breeding; polite; complaisant; as gentlemanly manners.

1. Like a man of birth and good breeding; as a gentlemanly officer.

GEN'TLENESS, noun [See Gentle.] Dignity of birth. [Little used.]

1. Genteel behavior.

2. Softness of manners; mildness of temper; sweetness of disposition; meekness.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness goodness, faith. Galatians 5:22.

3. Kindness; benevolence.

4. Tenderness; mild treatment.

GEN'TLESHIP, noun The deportment of a gentleman.

GEN'TLEWOMAN, noun [gentle and woman.] A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

1. A woman who waits about the person of one of high rank.

2. A term of civility to a female, sometimes ironical.

GEN'TLY, adverb Softly; meekly; mildly; with tenderness.

My mistress gently chides the fault I made.

1. Without violence, roughness or asperity.

GENTOO', noun A native of India or Hindoostan; one who follows the religion of the Bramins.

GEN'TRY, noun Birth; condition; rank by birth.

1. People of education and good breeding. In Great Britain, the classes of people between the nobility and the vulgar.

2. A term of civility; civility; complaisance.

GENUFLEC'TION, noun [Latin genu, the knee, and flectio, a bending.]

The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.

GEN'UINE, adjective [Latin genuinus, from enus, 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'UINELY, adverb Without adulteration or foreign admixture; naturally.

GEN'UINENESS, noun 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.

GE'NUS, noun plural genuses or genera. [Latin genus 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.

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 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 is a subdivision containing plants of the same class and order, which agree in their parts of fructification.

GEOCEN'TRIC, adjective [Gr. earth, and center.] Having the earth for its center, or the same center with the earth. The word is applied to a planet or its orbit.

GE'ODE, noun [Gr. earth.] 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.

GE'ODESY, noun [Gr. the earth, and to divide.] That part of geometry which respects the doctrine of measuring surfaces, and finding the contents of all plain figures.

GEODET'IC

GEODET'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the art of measuring surfaces.

GEODIFEROUS, adjective [Latin] Producing geodes.

GE'OGNOST, noun [See Geognosy.] One versed in geognosy; a geologist.

GEOGNOS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological.

GE'OGNOSY, noun [Gr. the earth, and 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.

[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.]

GEOGONIC, adjective Pertaining to geogony, or the formation of the earth.

GEOG'ONY, noun [Gr. the earth, and generation.] The doctrine of the formation of the earth.

GEOG'RAPHER, noun [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, etc. One who is versed in geography, or one who compiles a treatise on the subject.

GEOGRAPH'IC

GEOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Relating to or containing a description of the terraqueous globe; pertaining to geography.

GEOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Relating to or containing a description of the terraqueous globe; pertaining to geography.

GEOGRAPH'ICALLY, adverb In a geographical manner; according to the usual practice of describing the surface of the earth.

GEOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. the earth, and to write, to describe.]

1. Properly, a description of the earth or terrestrial globe, particularly of the divisions of its surface, natural and artificial, and of the position of the several countries, kingdoms, states, cities, etc. As a science, geography includes the doctrine or knowledge of the astronomical circles or divisions of the sphere, by which the relative position of places on the globe may be ascertained, and usually treatises of geography contain some account of the inhabitants of the earth, of their government, manners, etc., and an account of the principal animals, plants and minerals.

2. A book containing a description of the earth.

GEOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Geology.] Pertaining to geology; relating to the science of the earth or terraqueous globe.

GEOL'OGIST, noun One versed in the science of geology.

GEOL'OGY, noun [Gr. the earth, and discourse.]

The doctrine or science of the structure of the earth or terraqueous globe, and of the substances which compose it; or the science of the compound minerals or aggregate substances which compose the earth, the relations which the several constituent masses bear to each other, their formation, structure, position and direction: it extends also to the various alterations and decompositions to which minerals are subject.

GE'OMANCER, noun [See Geomancy.] One who foretells or divines, by means of lines, figures or points on the ground or on paper.

GE'OMANCY, noun [Gr. the earth, and divination.] A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth and afterwards on paper.

GEOMAN'TIC, adjective Pertaining to geomancy.

GEOM'ETER, noun [See Geometry.] One skilled in geometry. [See Geometrician, which is generally used.]

GEOM'ETRAL, adjective Pertaining to geometry.

GEOMET'RIC

GEOMET'RICAL, adjective [Gr.] Pertaining to geometry.

1. According to the rules or principles of geometry; done by geometry.

2. Disposed according to geometry.

Geometrical progression, is when the terms increase or decrease by equal ratios; as 2.4.8.16.32. or 32.16.8.4.2.

GEOMET'RICAL, a. [Gr.] Pertaining to geometry.

Geometrical progression, is when the terms increase or decrease by equal ratios; as 2.4.8.16.32. or 32.16.8.4.2.

GEOMET'RICALLY, adverb According to the rules or laws of geometry.

GEOMETRI'CIAN, noun One skilled in geometry; a geometer.

GEOM'ETRIZE, verb transitive To act according to the laws of geometry; to perform geometrically.

GEOM'ETRY, noun [Gr. the earth, and measure.] Originally and properly, the art of measuring the earth, or any distances or dimensions on it. But geometry now denotes the science of magnitude in general, comprehending the doctrine and relations of whatever is susceptible of augmentation and diminution; as the mensuration of lines, surfaces, solids, velocity, weight, etc., with their various relations.

GEOPON'IC, adjective [Gr. the earth, and labor.] Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture. [Not little used.]

GEOPON'ICS, noun The art or science of cultivating the earth.

GE'ORAMA, noun [Gr. the earth, and view.] An instrument or machine which exhibits a very complete view of the earth, lately invented in Paris. It is a hollow sphere of forty feet diameter, formed by thirty six bars of iron representing the parallels and meridians, and covered with a bluish cloth, intended to represent seas and lakes. The land, mountains and rivers are painted on paper and pasted on this cover.

GEORGE, noun A figure of St. george on horseback, worn by knights of the garter.

1. A brown loaf.

GEOR'GIC, noun [Gr. rustic; and labor.] A rural poem; a poetical composition on the subject of husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, in a poetical dress; as the Georgics of Virgil.

GEOR'GIC, adjective Relating to the doctrine of agriculture and rural affairs.

GEORGIUM SIDUS. [See Herschel.]

GEOS'COPY, noun [Gr.] Knowledge of the earth, ground or soil, obtained by inspection.

GERA'NIUM, noun [Latin from Gr. a crane.] Crane's-bill, a genus of plants, of numerous species, some of which are cultivated for their fragrance or the beauty of their flowers.

GE'RENT, adjective [Latin gerens.] Bearing; used in Vicegerent.

GERFALCON. [See Gyrfalcon.]

GERM, noun [Latin germen.] In botany, the ovary or seed-bud of a plant, the rudiment of fruit yet in embryo. It is the base or lower part of the pistil, which, in the progress of vegetation, swells and becomes the seed-vessel.

1. Origin; first principle; that from which any thing springs; as the germ of civil liberty, or of prosperity.

GER'MAN, adjective [Latin germanus, a brother.]

1. Cousins german are the sons or daughters of brothers or sisters; first cousins.

2. Related.

GER'MAN, adjective Belonging to Germany.

GER'MAN, noun A native of Germany; and by ellipsis, the german language.

GERMAN'DER, noun A plant, or rather the name of several plants, as the rock germander of the genus Veronica, and the common and water germander of the genus Teucrium.

GERMAN'IC, adjective Pertaining to Germany; as the germanic body or confederacy.

GER'MANISM, noun An idiom of the German language.

GERM'EN, noun plural germens. Now contracted to germ, which see.

GERM'INAL, adjective [from germen. See Germ.] Pertaining to a germ or seed-bud.

GERM'INANT, adjective Sprouting.

GERM'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin germino, from germen.] To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed.

GERM'INATE, verb transitive To cause to sprout. [Unusual.]

GERMINA'TION, noun The act of sprouting; the first beginning of vegetation in a seed or plant.

1. The time in which seeds vegetate, after being planted or sown.

GEROCOM'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to gerocomy. [Little used.]

GEROC'OMY, noun [Gr.] That part of medicine which treats of the proper regimen for old people.

GER'UND, noun [Latin gerundium, from gero, to bear.] In the Latin grammar, a kind of verbal noun, partaking of the nature of a participle.

GESLING, for gosling. [Not in use.]

GEST, noun [Latin gestum, from gero, to carry, to do.]

1. A deed, action or achievement.

2. Show; representation.

3. A state in travelling; so much of a journey as is made without resting; or properly, a rest; a stop.

4. A roll or journal of the several days and stages prefixed, in the journeys of the English kings, many of which are extant in the herald's office.

GESTA'TION, noun [Latin gestatio, from gero, to carry.]

1. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

2. The act of wearing, as clothes or ornaments.

3. The act of carrying sick persons in carriages, as a salutary exercise, by which fevers have often been cured.

GES'TATORY, adjective That may be carried or worn.

GES'TIC, adjective Pertaining to deeds; legendary.

GESTIC'ULATE, verb intransitive [Latin gesticulor, from gestum, gero, to bear or carry, or gestio.]

To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.

GESTIC'ULATE, verb transitive To imitate; to act.

GESTICULA'TION, noun [Latin gesticulatio.]

1. The act of making gestures, to express passion or enforce sentiments.

2. Gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments.

3. Antic tricks or motions.

GESTIC'ULATOR, noun One that shows postures, or makes gestures.

GESTIC'ULATORY, adjective Representing in gestures.

GES'TURE, noun [Latin gestus, from gero, to bear, to do.]

1. A motion of the body or limbs, expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce an argument or opinion. It consists chiefly in the actions or movements of the hands and face, and should be suited to the subject.

2. Movement of the body or limbs.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,

In every gesture dignity and love.

GES'TURE, verb transitive To accompany with gesture or action.

GET, verb transitive preterit tense got. [gat, obsolete ] participle passive got, gotten.

1. To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means. We get favor by kindness; we get wealth by industry and economy; we get land by purchase; we get praise by good conduct; and we get blame by doing injustice. The merchant should get a profit on his goods; the laborer should get a due reward for his labor; most men get what they can for their goods or for their services. get differs from acquire, as it does not always express permanence of possession, which is the appropriate sense of acquire. We get a book or a loaf of bread by borrowing, we do not acquire it; but we get or acquire an estate.

2. To have.

Thou hast got the face of a man.

This is a most common, but gross abuse of this word. We constantly hear it said, I have got no corn, I have got no money, she has got a fair complexion, when the person means only, I have no corn, I have no money, she has a fair complexion.

3. To beget; to procreate; to generate.

4. To learn; as, to get a lesson.

5. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

Though the king could not get him to engage in a life of business. [This is not elegant.]

6. To procure to be. We could not get the work done. [Not elegant.]

To get off, to put off; to take or pull off; as, to get off a garment: also, to remove; as, to get off a ship from shoals.

To sell; to dispose of; as, to get off goods.

To get on, to put on; to draw or pull on; as, to get on a coat; to get on boots.

To get in, to collect and shelter; to bring under cover; as, to get in corn.

To get out, to draw forth; as, to get out a secret.

To draw out; to disengage.

To get the day, to win; to conquer; to gain the victory.

To get together, to collect; to amass.

To get over, to surmount; to conquer; to pass without being obstructed; as, to get over difficulties: also, to recover; as, to get over sickness.

To get above, to surmount; to surpass.

To get up, to prepare and introduce upon the stage; to bring forward.

With a pronoun following, it signifies to betake; to remove; to go; as, get you to bed; get thee out of the land. But this mode of expression can hardly be deemed elegant.

GET, verb intransitive To arrive at any place or state; followed by some modifying word, and sometimes implying difficulty or labor; as,

To get away or away from, to depart; to quit; to leave; or to disengage one's self from.

To get among, to arrive in the midst of; to become one of a number.

To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward.

To get behind, to fall in the rear; to lag.

To get back, to arrive at the place from which one departed; to return.

To get clear, to disengage one's self; to be released, as from confinement, obligation or burden; also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment.

To get down, to descend; to come from an elevation.

To get home, to arrive at one's dwelling.

To get in or into, to arrive within an inclosure, or a mixed body; to pass in; to insinuate one's self.

To get loose or free, to disengage one's self; to be released from confinement.

To get off, to escape; to depart; to get clear; also, to alight; to descend from.

To get out, to depart from an inclosed place or from confinement; to escape; to free one's self from embarrassment.

To get along, to proceed; to advance.

To get rid of, to disengage one's self from; also, to shift off; to remove.

To get together, to meet; to assemble; to convene.

To get up, to arise; to rise from a bed or a seat; also, to ascend; to climb.

To get through, to pass through and reach a point beyond any thing; also, to finish; to accomplish.

To get quit of, to get rid of; to shift off, or to disengage one's self from.

To get forward, to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth.

To get near, to approach within a small distance.

To get ahead, to advance; to prosper.

To get on, to proceed; to advance.

To get a mile or other distance, to pass over it in traveling.

To get at, to reach; to make way to.

To get asleep, to fall asleep.

To get drunk, to become intoxicated.

To get between, to arrive between.

To get to, to reach; to arrive.

GET'TER, noun One who gets, gains, obtains or acquires.

1. One who begets or procreates.

GET'TING, participle present tense Obtaining; procuring; gaining; winning; begetting.

GET'TING, noun The act of obtaining, gaining or acquiring; acquisition.

Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get

understanding. Proverbs 4:7.

1. Gain; profit.

GEW'GAW, noun A showy trifle; a pretty thing of little worth; a toy; a bauble; a splendid plaything.

A heavy gewgaw called a crown.

GEW'GAW, adjective Showy without value.