Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See jennet.
  • noun See genet.

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Examples

  • As far as she was concerned, this little color-coded, height-proportioned arrangement was just one more example of Starfleet's anal compulsion for rules and order instead of for what any half-minded gennet - herder could tell you was right.

    Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

  • At our coming to the Governor's House we found the great door where the mules do usually unlade, even then opened, a candle lighted upon the top of the stairs; and a fair gennet ready saddled, either for the Governor himself, or some other of his household to carry it after him.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols

  • His maine belike he took from _Pegasus_, making him a hobbie to make this a compleat gennet [DN], which main he weares so curld, much after the women's fashions now adayes; this I am sure of howsoever, it becomes them, [and] it sets forth our gennet well.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • At our coming to the Governor’s House, we found the great door where the mules do usually unlade, even then opened, a candle lighted upon the top of the stairs; and a fair gennet ready saddled, either for the Governor himself, or some other of his household to carry it after him.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived. Paras. 1-99 1909

  • Among animals, the greyhound is more beautiful than the mastiff; and the delicacy of a gennet, a barb, or an Arabian horse, is much more amiable than the strength and stability of some horses of war or carriage.

    Delicacy 1909

  • Mark but the cleanness of his shapes too: his dam may be a Spanish gennet, but a true barb by the sire, or I have no skill in horseflesh: -- Marry, I ask six hundred xeriffs for him.

    The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 John Dryden 1665

  • _Ginet-moils_, _gennet-moil_, a kind of apple ripe before others.

    The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. living/blog; living = 1; nickname = robbie-gennet; entry_id = 409362; barack-obama = 1; hawaii = 1; health = 1; obama = 1; oceans = 1; president-obama = 1; secret-service = 1; vacation = 1",

    Robbie Gennet: Let The President Surf! 2010

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; politics = 1; nickname = robbie-gennet; entry_id = 174507; afghanistan = 1; al-qaeda = 1; biofuels = 1; drugs = 1; global-warming = 1; hemp = 1; marijuana = 1; middle-east = 1; oil = 1; taliban = 1; terrorism = 1; war-on-drugs = 1; war-on-terror = 1",

    Robbie Gennet: Biofuel, Not Drugs 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. green/blog; green = 1; nickname = robbie-gennet; entry_id = 168399; afghanistan = 1; al-qaeda = 1; auto-industry = 1; biofuels = 1; cars = 1; drugs = 1; economy = 1; energy = 1; ford = 1; hemp = 1; marijuana = 1; military = 1; oil = 1; taliban = 1; terrorism = 1; united-nations = 1; united-states = 1; war-on-terror = 1",

    Robbie Gennet: Afghanistan's Biofuel Revolution 2009

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