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.

The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

The deportment or conduct of a gentleman.

Gentilesse; gentleness.

In a gentle manner.

A penguin (Pygosceles t/niata).

Nobility of birth or of character; gentility.

Birth; condition; rank by birth.

Neat; trim.

The knee. The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.

To bend the knee, as in worship.

The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship or reverence.

Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.

See Gonys.

Having, considering, or based on, the earth as center; as, the geocentric theory of the universe; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as, the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet.

In a geocentric manner.

A genus of giant tortoises.

The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth.

The genus of birds comprising the roadrunners.

A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.

Of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a geocyclic machine.

A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter. The cavity in such a nodule.

Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles.

A geodetic line or curve.

A domelike structure invented by R. Buckminster Fuller, in which straight structural parts are connected to form interlocking polygons, affording great strength and rigidity combined with light weight. The typical form has the outlines of the top half of an icosahedron, with the triangular spaces filled with structural members forming triangles, hexagons, and squares.

Of or pertaining to geodesy; geodetic.

One versed in geodesy.

That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast.

Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers.

In a geodetic manner; according to geodesy.

Same as Geodesy.

Producing geodes; containing geodes.

Knowledge of the earth.

One versed in geognosy; a geologist.

Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological.

That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.

Of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth.

The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.

One versed in geography.

Of or pertaining to geography.

In a geographical manner or method; according to geography.

Same as geography.

The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, features, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited. It also includes the responses and adaptations of people to topography, climate, soil and vegetation

The worship of the earth.

A geologist.

Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth.

In a geological manner.

One versed in the science of geology.

To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.

The tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation.

One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy.

A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.

Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.

One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.

Pertaining to geometry.

Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.

According to the rules or laws of geometry.

One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.

One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometrid/; -- so called because their larv/ (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms.

A natural family of moths whose larvae are called measuring worms.

To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.

The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under Dirt.

One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc.

Earth-eating.

The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

A natural family of small extremely elongate earth-living centipedes.

an order of myriopod arthropods containing elongated centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs.

The type type genus of the Geophilidae, a cosmopolitan genus of centipedes sometimes called earwigs.

of or pertaining to geophysics; as, geophysical sciences.

a specialist in geology.

A branch of geology that uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth.

a perennial plant propagated by overwintering buds on underground bulbs or tubers or corms.

of or pertaining to geopolitics.

the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state.

Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture.

The art or science of cultivating the earth; agriculture.

A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.

A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.

A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.

A native of, or dweller in, Georgia.

A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.

Relating to agriculture and rural affairs.

Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection.

Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena.

Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance.

the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal.

A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.

Belonging to earth; terrestrial.

Relating to, or showing, geotropism.

A disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ.

An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without set/.