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 Geminé: m. ée: f. Iterated, doubled, redoubled.

Geminer. To double, iterate, redouble.

Gemir. To grone; sigh, sob, mourne, complaine grieuously, as those which are opprest, or ouercharged.

Gemissable: com. Most lamentable, fit to be groned for, or sighed at.

Gemissement: m. A groning; sighing, wailing, sobbing, mourning, heauie lamentation.

Gemme: f. A gemme, a iewell, a pretious stone; also, pitch.

Gemmé. couleur gemmée. A pearle, or peacocke colour.

Gemmeux: m. euse: f. Pretious, rich, full of gemmes, iewells, pretious stones.

Genaux: m. Casters of Natiuities.

Gencive: f. A gumme.  Souliers à double gencive. Double soled, or two-soled, shooes.

Gendarme: m. A man of Armes; a horseman armed at all points; one that serues in compleat armor, and on a great horse.  Gensdarmes des Ordonnances. The ordinarie men of Armes of France; first reduced by Charles the seuenth (in the yeare 1444) into certaine Companies, & vnder particular Orders; Part whereof be; that the Gendarme must be, at the yongest, betweene 20 and 21 yeares old; and must haue beene, at least, one yeare, an Archer'' (which no man should bee but a Gentleman borne, and bred; or one that hath beene a Captaine, Lieutenant, Ensigne, or Sergeant Maior of a foot-Companie six yeares:) He must also keepe three horses; two for seruice, and one for his baggage; In regard whereof, &c, he hath 400. l. Tourn. of ordinarie, and yerelie, intertainment; (These Gensdarmes were at first only 1500; but since they haue bin increased vnto 100 Companies.''

se Gendarmer. To strout, or square it like a mā of arms; to put the better leg before; also, to tricke, set out, or stirre vp, himselfe; to prepare himselfe for a scuffling; to arme himselfe with all his helps, against a warre.

Gendarmerie: f. The Gendarmerie, men of Armes, or compleat horsemen, of an armie; a troupe of great horse.

Gendre: m. A sonne in law; (by the mariage of a daughter.)  D'une fille deux gendres: Prov. Two friends gotten by one good office performed, or fauour done; a seuerall gaine drawne from sundrie men by the venting, or vse, of one thing.  Tel est le gendre comme le soleil d'hyver: Prov. viz: That does but a little good, and that but a little while.

Gendresse: f. A daughter in law (by the mariage of a sonne.)

Genealogie: f. A Genealogie; Pedegree.

General: m. A Generall, or chiefe Commaunder, of an Armie; or of an Order of Friers, &c. Les Generaux des Aides. Were at first foure Commissioners deputed for the leuying of th' Aides throughout all the kingdome; to which end each of them had assigned him certaine generall Prouinces, whose particular Townes, Diocesses, and Diuisions he rated at such summes as he thought they could beare: At length by reason of the warres they were made ordinarie Officers; and haue since increased much in number, and somewhat in authoritie; being Assistants, and next in degree, vnto les Presidens de la Cour des Aides; whereof they are stiled ordinarily, Conseillers gene-*
 * raux, or Generaux Conseillers.  Les Generaux des finances. The Treasurers, or disposers of the publicke treasure; or as Thresoriers de France.   Les Generaux des Monnoyes. Are Counsellors assistant vnto the Presidents of the Court of Moneyes, & th'ordinarie riders of circuit for that Court; In which seruice halfe of them (by halfe-yerelie turnes) are still abroad, (licensing, and swearing of Goldsmithes, and giuing them authoritie to fine their Laveures; visiting, and searching the houses of money-changers; and prouiding, in generall, that th'Orders of that Court be duely obserued, and the breakers thereof quickly reformed, or informed against) whilest th'other halfe attend, and sit in, the Court, without any vacation, from before eight vnto ten of the clocke in the forenoone, and from three to fiue in the afternoone. These are also tearmed Conseillers generaux de la Cour des Monnoyes.   Les Generaux provinciaux, & subsidiaires, des Monnoyes. Whereof there is one belonging to euery one of the seuen (inferiour) Parliaments, within the precincts whereof he rides his circuit, with authoritie like vnto the Generaux that be sent from the Court of Moneyes, vnlesse they meet; for then he giues them place, and does nothing before he haue acquainted them withall.   Les quatre Generaux. The foure high Treasurers of France; or may be also meant of the Generaux des Aides, who in their first institution were but foure.

General: m. ale: f. Generall, vniuersall; common, or kindlie, vnto all.  Conseillers generaux de la Cour des Aides; &, de la Cour des Monnoyes; as Les generaux des Aides; & des Monnoyes. Les Thresoriers generaux. Tearmed otherwise, Les Thresoriers de France; whereof there is a number certaine in euerie Generaltie; Looke Thresorier. La Generale: f. An Admirall gallie, or ship.

Generalement. Generally, vniuersally, all-comprehending, altogether.

Generalité: f. Generalitie, generalnesse, vniuersalitie; also, a Generaltie; a place of generall receit of the Finances; whereof there be at this day, 21; viz: Paris, Rouen, Caen, Nantes, Tours, Bourges, Poictiers, Agen, Tholouse, Montpellier, Aix, Grenoble, Lyon, Dijon, Chaalons, Amiens, Orleans, Lymoges, Soissons, and Moulin; each hauing it peculiar limits, and Officers.

Generateur: m. An ingenderer, begetter, father, progenitor; creator.

Generatif: m. iue: f. Generatiue; ingendring; of an ingendering facultie, or breeding power.

Generation: f. A generation, linage, brood, kind; also, an ingendring, begetting, breeding.

Generatrice. humeur gen. Which breedeth, or ingendereth.

Generé: m. ée: f. Ingendered, begotten, bred, brought forth; made, created, forged, framed.

Generer. To beget, or ingender, as the male; to breed, or bring forth, as the female; to make, forge, create, frame.

Genereux: m. euse: f. Generous; noble, gentle, worthie, gallant; of a braue humor, of an excellent race, of the right stampe, of a good kind; also, valiant, couragious, hardie, stout. Plaids genereux. Sessions; Assises: ¶Valenciennois. Vin genereux. Strong, lustie, mightie wine.