Gentling [verb]

Instantly Devil stopped and meekly followed Roosevelt to the snubbing-post, where he was tied up for a period of 'gentling.'

If he stands, caress him as before, and continue gentling him in this way until you can get round him without making him move.

Again he felt a sweet security,—a taming, gentling influence through the innermost fiber of his being.

From Confucius down to Emily Post, greater and lesser minds have worked at gentling the human race.

Afterward he held the mare, gentling her in suppressed excitement while his father went into the house for his rifle.

The helmsman ran the spokes over with no hint of gentling, and the Malahini darted prettily into the wind and about.

He went about it much as he would go about gentling a refractory broncho, and with nearly the same results.

It was the way the men had spoken of and to him, a mingling of respect and gentling that showed how much beloved he was.

He knelt, compassion gentling his heart, and put one hand to the insentient face.

The work of gentling the horses went on day after day for a week or more, and Jack never wearied of watching the work.