gentle
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Is gentle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.Examples: ""You are of gentle blood," she said […]"; "1893-1897, Charles Kendall Adams (editor), Johnson's Universal Encyclopedia British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple."; "the studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time"archaic
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To become gentle.Examples: "“She's experienced a horrific and nasty scare and is in a state of shock, but otherwise she's relatively okay.” Conrad replied, his tone at first grim (as he recalled what he'd seen in the family room) and then it gentled to a more doctorial tone as he directed his next comments to his patient."intransitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To ennoble.Examples: "[…] For he to-day that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, / This day shall gentle his condition […]"obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive, animal husbandry) To break; to tame; to domesticate.Examples: "Yakima could have tried to catch him, gentle him as Wolf had been gentled, but having two stallions in his cavvy would lead to a different kind of trouble."transitive
4. (transitive) To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.Examples: "A hornist, his playing gentled by perspective, is out of sight within the woods, but his notes are heard through or over the murmuring mix of bird song and breeze in leaves."transitive
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A person of high birth.Examples: "Gentles, methinks you frown."; "While actual medieval societies were full of lots of peasants and a few rich and noble gentles, SCA personas tend to be nobles rather than commoners."archaic
2. (fishing) A maggot used as bait by anglers.Examples: "Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles"; "Years ago, on Victoria's Port Phillip Bay, the recognised bait for garfish were `gentles', a genteel word for maggots, which were especially grown for gar fishermen."
Definition source: Wiktionary