Word Meanings - SEDGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Overgrown with sedge. On the gentle Severn''s sedgy bank. Shak.

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• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• GENTLE-HEARTED
  Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.
• GENTLEMANHOOD
  The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
• SEDGE
  Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.
• GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.
• GENTLE
  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, gignere, to beget; hence gentle, properly, of birth or family,
• GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
  An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.
• SEDGY
  Overgrown with sedge. On the gentle Severn''s sedgy bank. Shak.
• GENTLENESS
  The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
• GENTLEMAN
  One who bears arms, but has no title. 4. The servant of a man of rank. The count's gentleman, one Cesario. Shak. 5. A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
• GENTLEMANLINESS
  The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
• GENTLESHIP
  The deportment or conduct of a gentleman. Ascham.
• GENTLESSE
  Gentilesse; gentleness.
• GENTLEMANSHIP
  The carriage or quality of a gentleman.
• SEDGED
  Made or composed of sedge. With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks. Shak.
• UNGENTLE
  Not gentle; lacking good breeding or delicacy; harsh. Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind. Shak. That ungentle flavor which distinguishes nearly all our native and uncultivated grapes. Hawthorne. -- Un*gen"tle*ness, n. -- Un*gen"tly, adv.
• FLOWER-GENTLE
  A species of amaranth .
• OLD-GENTLEMANLY
  Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron.
• DISEDGE
  To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.