Word Meanings - GENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Gentle; noble; of gentle birth. All of a knight was fair and gent. Chaucer. 2. Neat; pretty; fine; elegant. Spenser. Her body gent and small. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GENT)

• Mordent
• Biting
• keen
• pun
• gent

Related words: (words related to GENT)

• MORDENTE
  An embellishment resembling a trill.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• BITTERSWEET
  1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter.
• BITUME
  Bitumen. May.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• BITHEISM
  Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
• BITARTRATE
  A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
• BITTACLE
  A binnacle.
• BITERNATE
  Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. Gray.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• BITANGENT
  Possessing the property of touching at two points. -- n.
• BITTOR; BITTOUR
  The bittern. Dryden.
• BITLESS
  Not having a bit or bridle.
• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• BITUMINIZE
  To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.
• BITTS
  A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts,
• BITO; BITO TREE
  A small scrubby tree growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia. The hard yellowish white wood is made into plows in Abyssinia; the bark is used in Farther India to stupefy fish; the ripe fruit is edible, when green it is an anthelmintic;
• BITING IN
  The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch. G. Francis.
• BITTERLY
  In a bitter manner.
• BITTOCK
  A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. Sir W. Scott.
• HOBIT
  A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
• BITE
  bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• REHIBITION
  The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• ARBITRESS
  A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• DISCUBITORY
  Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. Sir T. Browne.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• CRIBBER; CRIB-BITER
  A horse that has the habit of cribbing.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• HENBIT
  A weed of the genus Lamium with deeply crenate leaves.
• EXCUBITORIUM
  A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.