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 picked, well arrayed, featly suited, quaintly dressed, handsomely attired; also, gentle, pliant, soft, easie.  Le gent corps. Aunciently signified one of a small stature; and may yet be applied to a prettie dapper man, or (if a woman) to a pretie soule.

Gente: f. as Iante. Gentement. Neatly, sprucely, finely, comptly, prettily, featly, quaintly, handsomely; also, gently, easily, softly, gingerly.

Gentiane: f. Gentian, Bitterwort, Fellwort, Baldmoine, or Baldmonie.  Gentiane grande. Great Gentian; beares a yellow flower.  Gentiane moindre. Crossewort Gentian; bearing a blew flower.  Gentiane petite. Little Crossewort Gentian; beares a small red flower.

Gentienne. as Gentiane. Gentifame: f. A Gentlewoman.

Gentil: m. ile: f. Gentle, tame, tractable; mild; affable, courteous, gracious; kind, louing; pliant, soft, supple, tender; smooth; also, comelie, sightlie; prettie, quaint, neat, fine; well-fashioned, well-behaued; goodlie, faire; gallant, noble; delightsome, pleasant; also, Gentile, Pagan, Heathenish; (When Gallia was conquered by the Francs, or ancient French, the Gaules, who were at that time Christians, tearmed the Cōquerors, by reason of their Heathenish Religion, Gentils, or Gentils-hommes.)  Gentil bois. Wild Line, wild Flax.  Bois gentil. Spurge-Flax, German Oliue Spurge, Mezereon, Dwarfe Bay.  Ouvrier gentil à l'hospital: Prov. The fine workeman dies in an Hospitall; (whether his pride, idlenesse, or ill-husbandrie seldome failes to send him;) Looke Ouvrier. Gentilesse: f. Gentrie, Gentilitie, Nobilitie.  Gentilesses. Prettie conceits, deuises, knacks, feats, trickes.

Gentilhomme: m. A Gentleman; also, a certain hollow engine (set thick on th'outside with pikes, and charged with powder and shot) which discharged, scatters it selfe, to the ruine of those it lights on; Looke Gentil. Gentilhomme servant. A waiter, or attendant on the King, at meale-times.  Gentilhomme de ville. A Gentleman of the first head, an vpstart Gentleman. Il iure comme vn Gentilhomme. He sweares after a thousand pound a yeare.

Gentilhommeau: m. A small, or single-soled, Gentleman; a Gentleman of low degree.

Gentiliser. To gentilize it, liue as the Heathen, play the Pagan.

Gentilisme: m. Paganisme, Heathenishnesse.

Gentilité: f. The same.

Gentillastre: m. A meane Gentleman; a new Gentleman, one that is scarce a Gentleman; one that passes, or affects to goe, for a Gentleman, though he be none.

Gentillastreté: f. Poore gentrie, meane gentrie; vsurped, or new gentrie.

Gentillement. Gently, louingly, kindly, graciously; softly, smoothly, tenderly; neatly, quaintly, handsomely; nobly, gallantly.

Gentils. les Gentils. The Gentiles, Pagans, Heathen people.

Gentiment. as Gentement; or as Gentillement.

Gentre. Looke Iantre. Genuflexion: f. A bowing, or bending, of the knee.

Geoffroy. Geffrey; a proper name.

Geographie: f. The description of the earth; Geographie.

Geographique: com. Geographicall, earth-describing.

Geolage: m. A Goalership; or the being in Goale; also, the fee thats due to a Goaler at th'entrie, and departure of a prisoner.

Geole: f. A Goale, or Prison; also, a cage, or coope for birds; also, the pinne, or circle in the middle of a white, or marke, at shooting.

Geoliage. as Geolage. Geolier: m. A Goaler; a Keeper.

Geoliere: f. A Goalers wife, a woman Goaler.

Geollage. as Geolage. Geolle, & Geollier. Looke Geole, & Geolier. Geomantie: f. Diuination by points, and circles made on the earth: ¶Rab. Geometrie. Geometrie; the measuring, or proportioning of figures.

Geometrien: m. A Geometrician; a professor of, or Maister in, Geometrie.

Geometrique. Geometricall; of, or belonging to, Geometrie.  Pied Geometrique. The Geometricall foot; is foure hand-breadthes, or sixteene fingers-breadthes.

Geraffe. as Giraffe. Geratien. A kind of blackish stone.

Gerbe de blé. A sheafe of corne.  Faire gerbe de foarre à dieu. To mocke, scorne, abuse, delude, defraud God of his right; or (in matters of Religion, and conscience, where bountie is required) to play the micher; In the Jewes law it was held a great impietie in any man to giue the Leuites chaffe, or straw, in stead of corne; thence came this Prouerbe, wherein many, abusiuely, vse Barbe, in stead of Gerbe. Gerbé: m. ée: f. Bound vp (as corne) into sheaues; also, ranged, ranked, or placed in order one vpon another.

Gerbée: f. A shocke, halfe-thraue, or heape of sheaues; also, a bundle of straw.

Gerber des javelles. To bind corne of swath into sheaues; to sheafe vp corne.  Gerber des tonneaux. To raunge, or set wine vessels one vpon another.

Gerbier: m. A stacke, or halfe-thraue, of corne; also, a great Garner to keepe salt in.

Gerbiere: f. A reeke, or stacke, of corne.

Gercé: m. ée: f. Chapped, riuen, cleft, chawned, with cold.

Gercer. To cleeue, riue, cut in many places, and by small clefts; to chinke, chap, chawne (as the North wind does) the face, hands, &c.

Gerceure. as Iarsure; or Gersure. Gere: f. The Hebrew halfepennie, somewhat more then our pennie, 40 of them going to the ounce.

Geré: m. ée: f. Done, wrought, executed, managed, handled; also, carried, brought, or borne.

Gerer. To doe, make, worke, exercise, execute, manage, handle; also, to carrie, or beare.

Gerfault: m. A Gerfaulcon; the greatest of Hawks; called also, Faulcon gerfaut. Germain. (A proper name for a man) German.

Germain: m. ine: f. Germaine; come of the same stock, bred of the same kind; neere of kinne, of all-one race.

Germaine. The name of an Apple, that yeeldes verie cleere, and pleasant cyder.