LekhoriLekhoriTender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
Stuart is a gentle man; he would never hurt you.
Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
I felt something touch my shoulder; it was gentle and a little slimy.
Docile and easily managed.
To become gentle.
“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.
A person of high birth.
Gentles, methinks you frown.
A maggot used as bait by anglers.
A surname.
From Middle English gentil (“courteous, noble”), from Old French gentil (“high-born, noble”), from Latin gentilis (“of the same family or clan”), from gens (“[Roman] clan”). Doublet of gentile, gentee...
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We had a gentle swim in the lake.
To ennoble.
[…] 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 […]
To break; to tame; to domesticate.
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.
Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles
A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.