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The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.

The deportment or conduct of a gentleman. [Obs.] Ascham.

e, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night." Dryden.

description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.

A cell, of either sex, directly concerned in the production of a new organism.

ooked. -- German silver (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harde…

Reproduction by means of germs.

To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.

Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator.

An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.

The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoïn.

To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show. Against right reason all your counsels go. Dryden. To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. Si…

gs out according to their journeys." Num. xxxiii. 2. -- Goings on, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.

f the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.

A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.

To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority. "Fit to govern and rule multitudes." Shak.