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Noble birth. [Obs.] Harris (Voyages).

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

The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination. The origin and genasis of poor Sterling's club. Carlyle.

Pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth. Howell.

ating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth. Jhonson.

Generation; procreation; birth. Dryden.

Gentle; noble; of gentle birth. [Obs.] All of a knight [who] was fair and gent. Chaucer.

Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

Nobility of birth or of character; gentility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble. British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple. Johnson's Cyc. The studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time. Milton.

Birth; condition; rank by birth. [Obs.] "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak.

A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.

e the bag, to cheat. [Obs.] I fear our ears have given us the bag. J. Webster. -- To give birth to. (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child. (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise, idea. -- To give chase, to pursue. -- To give ear to. See under Ear. -- To give forth, to give out; to publish; to tell…

Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] Holland.

Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent. Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . . There was not such a gracious creature born. Shak.

; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc. He doth object I am too great of birth. Shak.

ches of the Christian church to have guardianship and protection of each human being from birth. (b) Hence, a protector or defender in general. O. W. Holmes. -- Guardian spirit, in the belief of many pagan nations, a spirit, often of a deceased relative or friend, that presides over the interests of a household, a cit…

A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. [Obs.] He was a gentle harlot and a kind. Chaucer.

The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.