A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.

A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns.

A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.

One of a body of heavy cavalry.

The French police force; the body of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively.

Same as gendarmerie.

To copulate; to breed.

Having no gender.

Alternate generation. See under Generation.

Genealogical.

Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order.

One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.

The chief of a family or tribe.

See Genus.

Capability of being generated.

Capable of being generated or produced.

Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

a doctrine and philosophical approach to language and its relationship to thought and behavior, developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), which holds that the capacity to express ideas and thereby improve one's interaction with others and one's environment is enhanced by training in the more critical use of words and other symbols; -- sometimes also called semantics.

Generalities; general terms.

same as generalize.

The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.

Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.

To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.

Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.

One who takes general or comprehensive views.

In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.

The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.

The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.

Generality.

That which generates.

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.

One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.

A medication sold under its generic name; -- usually legal only after the patent has expired, or if no patent was issued for the substance. Generic drugs are usually less expensive than proprietary medications.

The name for a medication, as used in the pharmacopoeia; it cannot be a trademark. The name is typically given by the inventor or discoverer of the drug, but must be approved by a national or international naming authority.

With regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied.

The quality of being generic.

The act or process of generalizing.

Noble birth.

Of or relating to generation.

The doctrine or science of generation.

A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.

A birthday poem.

Genethliac.

The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth.

Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.

One who calculates nativities.

Same as Genetical.

Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development.

In a genetical manner.

a scientist who specializes in genetics.

A genus of mammals comprising the genets.

One of several species of small Carnivora of the genus Genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and without a pouch.

A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands.

A native or inhabitant of Geneva.

Strict Calvinism.

Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan. A native or inhabitant of Geneva; collectively, the inhabitants of Geneva; people of Geneva.

Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.

By genius or nature; naturally.

The quality of being genial.

Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence.

To form joints or knots on.

Same as Geniculate.

Same as Genius{1}.

A man of a particular turn of mind.

Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.

Any tree or shrub of the genus Genipa.

The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiace/. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.

A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe.

Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs; as, genital herpes.

The sex organs, especially the external sex organs, called the external genitalia; the genitals.

The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.

A species of apple that ripens very early.

Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb.

The genitive case.

Pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; -- applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves.

One who begets; a generator; an originator.

See Urogenital.

Generation; procreation; birth.

A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee.

Of or pertaining to genocide; as, the genocidal policies of the Serbs in Bosnia.

The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; as, the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II.

Of or pertaining to Genoa, a city of Italy; as, the Genoese sailor we call Columbus. A native or inhabitant of Genoa; collectively, the people of Genoa.

A group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution.

of or pertaining to genotypes (definition 2); as, genotypical pattern.

A metal plate covering the knee.

same as Genoese.

Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature.

A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

Somewhat genteel.

In a genteel manner.

The quality of being genteel.

Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.

The type genus of the Gentianaceae; it is a genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications it includes the genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella.

A natural family of chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals.

Of or pertaining to a natural family of plants (Gentianace/) of which the gentian is the type.

An order of plants including the Gentianaceae; Apocyanaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; and Salvadoraceae.

A kind of blue color.

Pertaining to or derived from the gentian; as, gentianic acid.

A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.

A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.

Gentle.

Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.

See Falcon-gentil.

Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility.

Heathenish; pagan.

To render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize your unworthy sones.

In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly.

A bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian.

A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin.

To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble.

Having a kind or gentle disposition.

Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.

The qualities or condition of a gentleman.

The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; befitting a man of good breeding; well-behaved; courteous; polite; as, gentlemanly behavior.

The carriage or quality of a gentleman.