To show us so much gentry and good will.
Shak.
Gen"ty (?), a. [From F. gentil. Cf. Jaunty.] Neat; trim. [Scot.] Burns.
||Ge"nu (?), n.; pl. Genua (#). [L., the knee.] (Anat.) (a) The knee.
||(b) The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the
||brain.
Gen`u*flect" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Genuflected; p. pr. & vb. n.
Genuflecting.] [See Genuflection.] To bend the knee, as in worship.
Gen`u*flec"tion (?), n. [F. gÈnuflexion, fr. LL. genuflexio, fr. L.
genu knee + flexio a bending, fr. flectere, flexum, to bend. See Knee,
Flexible.] The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship. Bp.
Stillingfleet.
Gen"u*ine (?), a. [L. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to beget, in
pass., to be born: cf. F. gÈnuine. See Gender.] Belonging to, or
proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit,
spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure;
as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. "True,
genuine night." Dryden.
Syn. -- Authentic; real; true; pure; unalloyed; unadulterated. See
Authentic.
-- Gen"u*ine*ly, adv. -- Gen"u*ine*ness, n.
The evidence, both internal and external, against the genuineness
of these letters, is overwhelming.
Macaulay.
Ge"nus (j"ns), n.; pl. Genera (#). [L., birth, race, kind, sort; akin
to Gr. &?;. See Gender, and cf. Benign.]
1. (Logic) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species;
a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly
divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of
terms.
2. (Biol.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points
of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists,
they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily
the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into
several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is
natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or
less an artificial genus.
Thus in the animal kingdom the lion, leopard, tiger, cat, and panther
are species of the Cat kind or genus, while in the vegetable kingdom
all the species of oak form a single genus. Some genera are represented
by a multitude of species, as Solanum (Nightshade) and Carex (Sedge),
others by few, and some by only one known species.
Subaltern genus (Logic), a genus which may be a species of a higher
genus, as the genus denoted by quadruped, which is also a species of
mammal. -- Summum genus [L.] (Logic), the highest genus; a genus which
can not be classed as a species, as being.
||Ge"nys (j"ns), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ge`nys the under jaw.] (Zoˆl.) See
||Gonys.
{ Ge`o*cen"tric (?), Ge`o*cen"tric*al (?), } a. [Gr. ge`a, gh^, the
earth + ke`ntron center: cf. F. gÈocentrique.] (Astron.) (a) Having
reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the
earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as,
the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet. (b) Having reference
to the center of the earth.
Geocentric latitude (of place) the angle included between the radius of
the earth through the place and the plane of the equator, in
distinction from geographic latitude. It is a little less than the
geographic latitude.
Ge`o*cen"tric*al*ly, adv. In a geocentric manner.
Ge*oc"ro*nite (?), n. [Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + Kro`nos Saturn, the
alchemistic name of lead: cf. G. geokronit.] (Min.) A lead-gray or
grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur,
antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.
Ge`o*cyc"lic (?), a. [Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + ky`klos circle.] 1.
Of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a
geocyclic machine.