Gen"tly (?), adv. In a gentle manner.
My mistress gently chides the fault I made.
Dryden.
Gen*too" (?), n.; pl. Gentoos (#). [Pg. gentio gentile, heathen. See
Gentile.] A native of Hindostan; a Hindoo. [Archaic]
Gen"try (?), n. [OE. genterie, gentrie, noble birth, nobility, cf.
gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE.
genteleri high-mindedness. See Gent, a., Gentle, a.] 1. 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.
2. People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted
sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry. Macaulay.