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 Generosité: f. Generositie; gentilitie, gentrie; generousnesse, noblenesse, great worthinesse; brauerie of disposition, gallantnesse of humor; courage, valour, stoutnesse.

Genesie: f. Generation, natiuitie; also, a kind of hearb of sundrie colours.

Genest: m. Broome; (especially that kind therof which is called, Bastard Spanish Broome.)  Genest d'Afrique. as Genest d'Espaigne; Spanish Broome. Genest d'Espaigne. Spanish Broome; (some also tearme Gaude so, because they resemble one another.)  Genest espineux. Furres, Whinnes, Gorse, Thorne-*broome.  Petit genest. Sweet Broome, Heath, or Ling.

Genestay: m. A Broome close.

Geneste: f. Ordinarie Broome, or the Broome whereof Beesomes are made; also, a kind of garden hearbe resembling Beets.

Genesteux: m. euse: f. Full of Broome.

Genestier: m. ere: f. Of Broome, belonging to Broome.

Genestriere: f. A ground, or countrey full of Broome, or Iuniper.

Genet: m. A kind of bit with a round port; a bit for a Genet; a Genet-bit.

Genethliaque. Birth, natiuitie.

Genethliatique. A Caster, or Calculator, of Natiuities.

Genette: f. A Genet, or Spanish horse; also, a bit for a Genet; also, a kind of Weesell, blacke-spotted, and bred in Spaine.  Vne housse à la genette. A verie short foot-cloth.  Ordre de la genette. Seeke Ordre. Chevaucher à la genette. To ride with verie short stirrups.

Genevre: m. Iuniper.

Genevrier: m. A shrub, or plant of Iuniper.  Genevrier rouge. Cedar Iuniper; the crimzon, or pricklie Cedar.

Gengive: f. as Gencive; A Gunne. Genial: m. ale: f. Geniall; belonging to lucke, or chance; or to a mans nature, disposition, inclination.

Genie. la g. Ones good, or bad angell; also, his nature, instinct, inclination, originall disposition.

Geniculiere. The hearbe Salomons seale, Scala cœli, White-root, or White-wort.

Genillette. A Henne: ¶Savoyard. Genin: m. A Wittall.

Genisse: f. A heyfer.  Mener la genisse au taureau. To play the Baud, sell a Virginitie, prostitute a maid.

Genital. Genitall, fit for breed, apt to beget, seruing to ingender.

Genitif: m. The Genitiue case.

Genitif: m. iue: f. Naturall, ingendering, of an ingendering facultie.

Genitoires: m. The genitories, or genitalls; the priuie parts, the instruments of generation.

Geniture: f. A race, linage, progenie, generation; also, a birth; an ingendering, breeding, begetting.

Genne: f. as Gehenne.

Genner. as Gehenner.

Genoillet: m. The hearbe called White-root, or White-wort, Salomons seale, and Scala cœli.

Genoilliere: f. as Genoillet.

Genouil: m. A knee; also, a certaine peece of crooked wood in the poope of a ship. Rompre l'anguille au genouil. To attempt impossibilities; to labour in vaine.

Genouillé: m. ée: f. Knottie; kneed; full of ioynts, as the staulke of some hearbes.

Genouillée: f. Kneed grasse; also, as Geniculiere; Some also call the hearbe Stitchwort so, because it is full of ioynts.

Genouillere: f. Salomons seale, Scala cœli, White-root, White-wort.

Genouilleres: f. Pullie-peeces (Armour) for the knees.

Genouillet: m. A little knee; also, a knot, or ioynt in the staulke of an hearbe, or of corne; also, as Genoillet. Genre: m. Kind; a kind of.

Gens: m. Men, people, folke; nations, inhabitants of a countrey; also, the ordinarie attendants, or followers of a great man.  Gens d'armes. Compleat horsemen, men of Armes; Looke Gensdarmes. Gens de comptes. The Officers, or Ouerseers of the Chamber of Accompts.  Gens de corps, ou de corsage. Villeines; or such as hold by a seruile tenure.  Gens d'eglise. The Ministerie, Clergie, Church-men; Prelates, Priests, Friers, &c.  Gens de Iustice. Counsellors, Judges, Justicers, Magistrates, Officers of Justice.  Gens de main morte. as Gens de poeste. Gens de mestier. Artificers, or handicrafts-men.  Gens d'Ordonnance. Trained horsemen; or, as Gensdarmes des Ordonnances. Gens perdus. Desperate people; also, souldiors exposed vnto the greatest hazards; the forlorne hope.  Gens de pied. Footmen; or th'Infanterie of an Armie.  Gens de poeste, poste, ou pote. Yeomen, Roturiers, ignoble vassalls, or tenants; vnnoble persons.  Gens de robbe longue. Lawyers; also, all others, whose ciuile professiō enioyns them, ordinarily, to weare long gownes.  Les gens du Roy. The Kings Counsell learned.  Gens de sac & de licol. Rascalls, rakehells, rogues, vagabonds, loytering scoundrells; also, begging Friers.  Gens de suitte. Villeines; Looke Suitte. Gens de voirie. Scauingers, Dung-farmers, Gold-*finders.  Gens de bien sont tousiours gracieux: Prov. Good men are euer gracious, affable, courteous.  À gens de bien on ne pert rien: Prov. One seldome looses by dealing with, or dwelling neere, honest men.  De gens de bien vient tout bien: Prov. From good men comes all goodnesse.  Les gens de bien font tousjours bien, ont tousjours bien, & sont tousjours bien: Prov. Il y a gens & gens: Prov. There are of all sorts, good and bad; there is much choice of, great difference in, men; one should not expect (that cannot deserue) as much as another.  Tant de gens tant de guises: Prov. As many different natures as nations; as many seuerall fashions as folke.

Gens-d'-armes. Looke Gendarme. Gensemy: m. The little sweet flower Jasmine, Gelsomine, or Gesse.

Gent: f. A nation, people; stocke, race, kind, linage, familie, kindred; Looke Gens.

Gent: m. gente: f. Neat, spruce, fine, compt, prettie,