Gender, subst. 1) race, kind, sort: “and thou treble-dated crow, that thy sable g. makest with the breath thou givest and takest,” Phoen. 18. “the love the general g. bear him,” Hml. IV, 7, 18. “supply it with one g. of herbs,” Oth. I, 3, 326.
2) grammatical distinction of sex: Wiv. IV, 1, 73.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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