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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.

To live like a gentile or heathen. [Obs.] Milton.

In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).

or set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation. If gentil men, or othere of hir contree Were wrothe, she wolde bringen hem atoon. Chaucer.

The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.

To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor.

Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.

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

A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.

The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

Gentilesse; gentleness. [Obs.]

Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. "The heathen philosopher." "All in gold, like heathen gods." Shak.