(a) A class or kind of individuals or things sharing certain traits [sometimes distinguished from species, which denotes a class based upon different criteria]; (b) a race or nation; (c) a sex; (d)……

(a) Gram. The genitive case; genetif case; (b) with punning reference to 'procreation' or 'genealogy'. …

To rule (a country, people, city, etc.) by exercise of sovereign or delegated authority; rule (the Church, a religious institution); -- (a) with or (b) without obj. …

(a) The ruling of a country, people, etc.; government, rule; haven in governing, to have (a country, etc.) under (one's) rule; (b) command of a naval force; (c) administrative regulation; management. …

(a) Sinful, immoral; (b) of clergy, monks, etc., and their life: not engaged in, or not fully conducive to, the serious quest for spiritual perfection [difficult to distinguish from (a)]; (c) not……

(a) Gram. Of mood: imperative; (b) of language: smacking of command. …

Gram. Of verbs: impersonal. …

(a) Unchangeable, unswerving; (b) gram. not inflected, indeclinable. …

Gram. indicatif mode, the morphologically distinguished mood in the conjugation of a Latin verb whose essential function is to state a fact (as opposed to a wish, supposition or command). …

(a) Crooked; fig. dishonest; (b) gram. not direct; indirect relacioun, a syntactic relationship between words which is not indicated by inflectional agreement; relatif indirect, a relative word……

Gram. The forming of an indefinite construction. …

Gram. Infinitive. …

(a) An exclamation, outcry; (b) gram. one of the parts of speech, an interjection. …

Gram. Used in asking a question. …

(a) To join (things) into a whole, unite, combine; joinen togederes; (b) joinen to (unto, with), to fasten (sth.) to (sth.) to form a whole; -- also refl.; (c) to combine (colors, parts of a word). …

(a) The action or process of fastening together; also fig.; (b) sticking together; sticking (to sth.); (c) copulation; (d) a hostile encounter, fight; (e) building or making by fastening parts……

(a) The aggregate of inherent qualities or properties of persons, animals, plants, elements, medicines, etc.; essential character; the nature of emotions, attributes, and the like; after the fleshes……

(a) Of God, Christ: to create (the earth, man, etc.); also, of Nature or a pagan deity: create (sth.); (b) maken of nought (erthe), to create (sth.) from nothing (the dust); as fer as god hath maked……

(a) Of sex: male; masculin gendre, male sex; of the male class or kind; as noun: a male; also, the male portion of a congregation; (b) of things thought to possess male functions or qualities: male……

(a) In a middle state between two extremes; (b) phys. & physiol. of color, temperament, food, etc.: of a mixed quality or character; (c) moderate in size or quantity; mene assise [see assise n. 6]……