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The act of burying with funeral rites. [Obs.] Knatchbull.

Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.

One who gains. Shak.

One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

See Genus.

Capability of being generated. Johnstone.

Capable of being generated or produced. Bentley.

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

Generalities; general terms. J. S. Mill.

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.

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

Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge

The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton.

To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. 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. W. Nicholson.

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

One who takes general or comprehensive views. Tyndall.

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

The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness. Sir P. Sidney.