Well born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble; as the studies of noble and gentle youth; gentle blood.

Mild; meek; soft; bland; not rough, harsh or severe; as a gentle nature, temper or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice.7 Thessalonians 2:7; 2 Timothy 2:24.

Tame; peaceable; not wild, turbulent or refractory; as a gentle horse or beast.

Soothing; pacific.

Treating with mildness; not violent. A gentle hand may lead the elephant with a hair.

A gentleman.

Akind of worm.

To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar.