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

ss of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

Somewhat genteel.

In a genteel manner.

The quality of being genteel.

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

Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Gentianaceæ) of which the gentian is the type.

A kind of blue color. Johnson.

Pertaining to or derived from the gentian; as, gentianic acid.

A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.

A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.

Gentle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.

See Falcon-gentil.

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

Heathenish; pagan.

Hethenism; paganism; the worship of false gods.

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

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