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The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith.

Generality. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Generative; producing; esp. (Geom.),

to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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

Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.

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.

or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a generic difference; a generic name.

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. Out of this the universal is elaborated by generification. Sir W. Hamilton.

The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness. Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. Barrow.

Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. [Obs.] The generous and gravest citizens. Shak.

A garner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who gathers after reapers.

A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.

An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.

Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.

One who grins. Addison.