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The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.

Peculiar to a people; national. Sir T. Browne.

Good extraction; dignity of birth. Macaulay. He . . . mines my gentility with my education. Shak.

with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden.

Glittering. [Obs.] Spenser.

In a glittering manner.

A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape.

Governableness.

State of being gracilent; slenderness. Milman. "Youthful gracility." W. D. Howells.

The state of being gradual; gradualness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements.

A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

Any species of slate suitable to be written on.

One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.

Of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate.

The quality of being guttural. [R.] "The old gutturality of k." Earle.

Qualified or entitled. [Obs.] Bacon.

Equipment; qualification. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ability; aptitude. [Obs.] Robynson. (More's Utopia).

Habitableness.