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• Gentle — Gen tle, a. [Compar. {Gentler}; superl. {Gentlest}.] [OE. gentil, F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful, fr. L. gentilis of the same clan or race, fr. gens, gentis, tribe, clan, race, orig. that which belongs together by birth, fr. the root of genere …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• gentle —    Formerly a vocative in its own right, especially in the plural when it was used to address a group of nobles or gentlemen and gentlewomen. Examples of such usage occur in, e.g., The Merry Wives of Windsor (3:ii) and Henry the Fifth (l:i). The… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• Manners bit — Manner Man ner, n. [OE. manere, F. mani[ e]re, from OF. manier, adj., manual, skillful, handy, fr. (assumed) LL. manarius, for L. manuarius belonging to the hand, fr. manus the hand. See {Manual}.] 1. Mode of action; way of performing or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• GENTLE SHEPHERD —    1) a famous pastoral by Allan Ramsay, with some happy descriptive scenes and a pleasant delineation of manners, published in 1723.    2) a nickname George Grenville bore from a retort of the elder Pitt one day in Parliament …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• The gentle craft — Gentle Gen tle, a. [Compar. {Gentler}; superl. {Gentlest}.] [OE. gentil, F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful, fr. L. gentilis of the same clan or race, fr. gens, gentis, tribe, clan, race, orig. that which belongs together by birth, fr. the root of …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• To make one's manners — Manner Man ner, n. [OE. manere, F. mani[ e]re, from OF. manier, adj., manual, skillful, handy, fr. (assumed) LL. manarius, for L. manuarius belonging to the hand, fr. manus the hand. See {Manual}.] 1. Mode of action; way of performing or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• The Gentle Shepherd — is a famous pastoral by Allan Ramsay first published in 1725.The pastoral has some happy descriptive scenes and a pleasant delineation of manners.References*NuttallExternal links* [http://www.scotstext.org/makars/allan ramsay/default.asp Text of… …   Wikipedia

• Evelina — Infobox Book | name = Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady s Entrance into the World image caption = First edition title page for Vol II author = Frances Burney illustrator = Thomas Lowndes (publisher) cover artist = country = United Kingdom… …   Wikipedia

• Flora MacDonald (Scottish Jacobite) — Flora MacDonald (Gaelic: Fionnghal NicDhòmhnaill) (1722 ndash; March 4, 1790), Jacobite heroine, was the daughter of Ranald MacDonald of Milton on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and his wife Marion, the daughter of… …   Wikipedia

• Taylor, Jeremy — (1613 1667)    Divine, was b. at Camb. His f., though of gentle descent, followed the trade of a barber, and Jeremy entered Caius Coll. as a sizar. After his graduation in 1634 he was asked to preach in London, where his eloquence attracted the… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

• Ladies — Lady La dy (l[=a] d[y^]), n.; pl. {Ladies} (l[=a] d[i^]z). [OE. ladi, l[ae]fdi, AS. hl[=ae]fdige, hl[=ae]fdie; AS. hl[=a]f loaf + a root of uncertain origin, possibly akin to E. dairy. See {Loaf}, and cf. {Lord}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A woman who… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English