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Pertaining to a genus 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.

ering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. Milton.

on or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.

A kind of blue color. Johnson.

Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make kind and docile, as a horse. [Colloq.]

Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.

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

A kind of brown loaf. [Obs.] Dryden.

A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow.

and a scew point. -- German carp (Zoöl.), the crucian carp. -- German millet (Bot.), a kind of millet (Setaria Italica, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. -- German paste, a prepared food for caged birds. -- German process (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting,…

A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.

obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [India] Malcom.

A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.

ntelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.

A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp.

A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.