adjective. Considerate or kindly in disposition; amiable and tender.

adjective. Not harsh or severe; mild and soft.

adjective. Easily managed or handled; docile.

adjective. Not steep or sudden; gradual.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Of good family; wellborn.

adjective. Suited to one of good breeding; refined and polite.

adjective. Noble; chivalrous.

noun. One of good birth or relatively high station.

transitive verb. To make less severe or intense.

transitive verb. To soothe, as by stroking; pacify.

transitive verb. To tame or break (a horse).

transitive verb. To raise to the status of a noble.

To make or constitute gentle, or as if gentle; place in the rank of gentlemen; raise from a vulgar or ignoble condition.

To make gentle in manner or appearance; render mild and amiable; soften; subdue: as, to gentle a colt.

Of good birth or family; well-born; specifically, belonging to the gentry as distinguished from the nobility: as, the studies of noble and gentle youth.

Pertaining to or characteristic of good birth or station; honorable; respectable; refined.

Of well-bred character or quality; gracious; courteous; kindly and considerate; not rough or harsh; mild; soothing: as, a gentle nurse; a gentle nature, manner, voice.

Tame; docile; tractable; peaceable; not wild or refractory: as, a gentle horse or hawk.

Improved by cultivation; ameliorated; domesticated.

Soft; mild in action, performance, or use; not rude or boisterous: as, a gentle breeze; a gentle tap; a gentle tone.

Refreshing; reviving.

Gradual; easy; not steep; moderate in degree; not sharply defined: as, a gentle slope; the gentle curves of a river or a figure.

noun. A person of good family; a person of gentle birth; a gentleman.

noun. In falconry, a falcon-gentle; a trained hawk: whence one of the names of the common goshawk of Europe, Falco gentilis.

noun. A maggot or larva of the flesh-fly, used in fishing.

noun. One well born; a gentleman.

noun. A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.

noun. A dipterous larva used as fish bait.

transitive verb. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble.

transitive verb. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable.

transitive verb. To make kind and docile, as a horse.

adjective. Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.

adjective. Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender

adjective. A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation.

adjective. Not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable.

adjective. Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific.

adjective. the art or trade of shoemaking.

adjective. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition

adjective. Soft and mild rather than hard or severe

adjective. Docile and easily managed

adjective. Gradual rather than steep or sudden

adjective. Polite and respectful rather than rude

verb. to become gentle

verb. to ennoble

verb. to break; to tame; to domesticate

verb. To soothe; to calm.

noun. A person of high birth.

noun. A maggot used as bait by anglers

adjective. having little impact

"And as, in this battle of thoughts, those which spoke for her won the victory, it seemed to me becoming to address her, and I said this sonnet, which begins, 'A gentle thought '; and I called it _gentle_ because I was speaking to a gentle lady, -- but otherwise it was most vile."

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