English Dictionary: garmentmaker | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Garment \Gar"ment\, n. [OE. garnement, OF. garnement, garniment, fr. garnir to garnish. See {Garnish}.] Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. --Matt. ix. 16. | |
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Garmented \Gar"ment*ed\, p. a. Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic] A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. --Shelley. | |
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Garmenture \Gar"men*ture\, n. Clothing; dress. | |
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Geraniine \Ge*ra"ni*ine\, Geranine \Ger"a*nine\, n. [See {Geranium}.] 1. (Med.) A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the {Geranium maculatum} or crane's-bill. 2. (Chem.) A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill ({Geranium maculatum}), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. [Written also {geraniin}.] | |
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Geraniine \Ge*ra"ni*ine\, Geranine \Ger"a*nine\, n. [See {Geranium}.] 1. (Med.) A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the {Geranium maculatum} or crane's-bill. 2. (Chem.) A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill ({Geranium maculatum}), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. [Written also {geraniin}.] | |
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Geraniine \Ge*ra"ni*ine\, Geranine \Ger"a*nine\, n. [See {Geranium}.] 1. (Med.) A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the {Geranium maculatum} or crane's-bill. 2. (Chem.) A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill ({Geranium maculatum}), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. [Written also {geraniin}.] | |
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Geranium \Ge*ra"ni*um\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], from [?] crane: cf. F. g[82]ranium. See {Crane}, n.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill. 2. (Floriculture) A cultivated pelargonium. Note: Many plants referred to the genus {Geranium} by the earlier botanists are now separated from it under the name of {Pelargonium}, which includes all the commonly cultivated [bd]geraniums[b8], mostly natives of South Africa. | |
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Geraniine \Ge*ra"ni*ine\, Geranine \Ger"a*nine\, n. [See {Geranium}.] 1. (Med.) A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the {Geranium maculatum} or crane's-bill. 2. (Chem.) A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill ({Geranium maculatum}), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. [Written also {geraniin}.] | |
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Pigeonfoot \Pi"geon*foot`\, n. (Bot.) The dove's-foot geranium ({Geranium molle}). | |
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Germain \Ger*main"\, a. [Obs.] See {Germane}. | |
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Umber \Um"ber\, n. [F. ombre ocherous ore of iron, terre d'ombre, It. terra d'ombra, literally, earth of shadow or shade, L. umbra shadow, shade. Cf. {Umber}, 3 & 4, {Umbrage}.] 1. (Paint.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called {burnt umber}; when not heated, it is called {raw umber}. See {Burnt umber}, below. 2. An umbrere. [Obs.] 3. [F. ombre, umbre, L. umbra.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Grayling}, 1. 4. [Cf. NL. scopus umbretta, F. ombrette; probably fr. L. umbra shade, in allusion to its dark brown color. See {Umber} a pigment.] (Zo[94]l.) An African wading bird ({Scopus umbretta}) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also {umbrette}, {umbre}, and {umber bird}. {Burnt umber} (Paint.), a pigment made by burning raw umber, which is changed by this process from an olive brown to a bright reddish brown. {Cologne}, [or] {German}, {umber}, a brown pigment obtained from lignite. See {Cologne earth}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [OE. german, germain, F. germain, fr. L. germanus full, own (said of brothers and sisters who have the same parents); akin to germen germ. Cf. {Germ}, {Germane}.] Nearly related; closely akin. Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. --Shak. {Brother german}. See {Brother german}. {Cousins german}. See the Note under {Cousin}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. {Germans}[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis origin.] 1. A native or one of the people of Germany. 2. The German language. 3. (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. (b) A social party at which the german is danced. {High German}, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the 15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature. The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern literary language, are often called Middle German, and the Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is also used to cover both groups. {Low German}, the language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including {Friesic}; {Anglo-Saxon} or {Saxon}; {Old Saxon}; {Dutch} or {Low Dutch}, with its dialect, {Flemish}; and {Plattdeutsch} (called also {Low German}), spoken in many dialects. | |
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Aster \As"ter\ ([acr]s"t[etil]r), n. [L. aster aster, star, Gr. 'asth`r star. See {Star}.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy. 2. (Floriculture) A plant of the genus {Callistephus}. Many varieties (called {China asters}, {German asters}, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers. | |
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Dunker \Dun"ker\, n. [G. tunken to dip.] One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also {Tunkers}, {Dunkards}, {Dippers}, and, by themselves, {Brethren}, and {German Baptists}. Note: The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States. {Seventh-day Dunkers}, a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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Crucian carp \Cru"cian carp`\ (-shan k?rp`). [Cf. Sw. karussa, G. karausche, F. carousse, -assin, corassin, LL. coracinus, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?] a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) A kind of European carp ({Carasius vulgaris}), inferior to the common carp; -- called also {German carp}. Note: The gibel or Prussian carp is now generally considered a variety of the crucian carp, or perhaps a hybrid between it and the common carp. | |
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Gromwell \Grom"well\, n. [Called also gromel, grommel, graymill, and gray millet, all prob. fr. F. gr?mil, cf. W. cromandi.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Lithospermum} ({L. arvense}), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The {German gromwell} is the {Stellera}. [Written also {gromill}.] | |
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Ivy \I"vy\, n.; pl. {Ivies}. [AS. [c6]fig; akin to OHG. ebawi, ebah, G. epheu.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Hedera} ({H. helix}), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers. Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. --Milton. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere. --Milton. {American ivy}. (Bot.) See {Virginia creeper}. {English ivy} (Bot.), a popular name in America for the ivy proper ({Hedera helix}). {German ivy} (Bot.), a creeping plant, with smooth, succulent stems, and fleshy, light-green leaves; a species of {Senecio} ({S. scandens}). {Ground ivy}. (Bot.) Gill ({Nepeta Glechoma}). {Ivy bush}. (Bot.) See {Mountain laurel}, under {Mountain}. {Ivy owl} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. {Ivy tod} (Bot.), the ivy plant. --Tennyson. {Japanese ivy} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Ampelopsis tricuspidata}), closely related to the Virginia creeper. {Poison ivy} (Bot.), an American woody creeper ({Rhus Toxicodendron}), with trifoliate leaves, and greenish-white berries. It is exceedingly poisonous to the touch for most persons. {To pipe in an ivy leaf}, to console one's self as best one can. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {West Indian ivy}, a climbing plant of the genus {Marcgravia}. | |
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d8Rubella \[d8]Ru*bel"la\, n. [NL., fr. L. rubellus reddish.] (Med.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also {German measles}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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Tombac \Tom"bac\, n. [Pg. tambaca,tambaque, fr. Malay tamb[be]ga copper; cf. Skr. t[be]mraka; cf. F. tombac.] (Metal.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also {German, [or] Dutch, brass}. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called {Dutch metal}. The addition of arsenic makes {white tombac}. [Written also {tombak}, and {tambac}.] | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the {Prunus domestica} are described; among them the {greengage}, the {Orleans}, the {purple gage}, or {Reine Claude Violette}, and the {German prune}, are some of the best known. Note: Among the true plums are; {Beach plum}, the {Prunus maritima}, and its crimson or purple globular drupes, {Bullace plum}. See {Bullace}. {Chickasaw plum}, the American {Prunus Chicasa}, and its round red drupes. {Orleans plum}, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets. {Wild plum of America}, {Prunus Americana}, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the {Iowa plum} and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than {Prunus}, are; {Australian plum}, {Cargillia arborea} and {C. australis}, of the same family with the persimmon. {Blood plum}, the West African {H[91]matostaphes Barteri}. {Cocoa plum}, the Spanish nectarine. See under {Nectarine}. {Date plum}. See under {Date}. {Gingerbread plum}, the West African {Parinarium macrophyllum}. {Gopher plum}, the Ogeechee lime. {Gray plum}, {Guinea plum}. See under {Guinea}. {Indian plum}, several species of {Flacourtia}. 2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. 3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of [9c]100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. {Plum bird}, {Plum budder} (Zo[94]l.), the European bullfinch. {Plum gouger} (Zo[94]l.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. {Plum weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also {turk}, and {plum curculio}. See Illust. under {Curculio}. | |
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Prune \Prune\, n. [F. prune, from L. prunum a plum. See {Plum}.] A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes. {German prune} (Bot.), a large dark purple plum, of oval shape, often one-sided. It is much used for preserving, either dried or in sirup. {Prune tree}. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the genus {Prunus} ({P. domestica}), which produces prunes. (b) The West Indian tree, {Prunus occidentalis}. {South African prune} (Bot.), the edible fruit of a sapindaceous tree ({Pappea Capensis}). | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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Nickel \Nick"el\, n. [G., fr. Sw. nickel, abbrev. from Sw. kopparnickel copper-nickel, a name given in derision, as it was thought to be a base ore of copper. The origin of the second part of the word is uncertain. Cf. {Kupfer-nickel}, {Copper-nickel}.] 1. (Chem.) A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6. Note: On account of its permanence in air and inertness to oxidation, it is used in the smaller coins, for plating iron, brass, etc., for chemical apparatus, and in certain alloys, as german silver. It is magnetic, and is very frequently accompanied by cobalt, both being found in meteoric iron. 2. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. [Colloq. U.S.] {Nickel silver}, an alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; -- usually called {german silver}; called also {argentan}. | |
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Silver \Sil"ver\, n. [OE. silver, selver, seolver, AS. seolfor, siolfur, siolufr, silofr, sylofr; akin to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG. silabar, silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan. s[94]lv, Goth. silubr, Russ. serebro, Lith. sidabras; of unknown origin.] 1. (Chem.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the [bd]noble[b8] metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5. Note: Silver was known under the name of luna to the ancients and also to the alchemists. Some of its compounds, as the halogen salts, are remarkable for the effect of light upon them, and are used in photography. 2. Coin made of silver; silver money. 3. Anything having the luster or appearance of silver. 4. The color of silver. Note: Silver is used in the formation of many compounds of obvious meaning; as, silver-armed, silver-bright, silver-buskined, silver-coated, silver-footed, silver-haired, silver-headed, silver-mantled, silver-plated, silver-slippered, silver-sounding, silver-studded, silver-tongued, silver-white. See {Silver}, a. {Black silver} (Min.), stephanite; -- called also {brittle silver ore}, or {brittle silver glance}. {Fulminating silver}. (Chem.) (a) A black crystalline substance, {Ag2O.(NH3)2}, obtained by dissolving silver oxide in aqua ammonia. When dry it explodes violently on the slightest percussion. (b) Silver fulminate, a white crystalline substance, {Ag2C2N2O2}, obtained by adding alcohol to a solution of silver nitrate. When dry it is violently explosive. {German silver}. (Chem.) See under {German}. {Gray silver}. (Min.) See {Freieslebenite}. {Horn silver}. (Min.) See {Cerargyrite}. {King's silver}. (O. Eng. Law) See {Postfine}. {Red silver}, [or] {Ruby silver}. (Min.) See {Proustite}, and {Pyrargyrite}. {Silver beater}, one who beats silver into silver leaf or silver foil. {Silver glance}, [or] {Vitreous silver}. (Min.) See {Argentine}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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Nickel \Nick"el\, n. [G., fr. Sw. nickel, abbrev. from Sw. kopparnickel copper-nickel, a name given in derision, as it was thought to be a base ore of copper. The origin of the second part of the word is uncertain. Cf. {Kupfer-nickel}, {Copper-nickel}.] 1. (Chem.) A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6. Note: On account of its permanence in air and inertness to oxidation, it is used in the smaller coins, for plating iron, brass, etc., for chemical apparatus, and in certain alloys, as german silver. It is magnetic, and is very frequently accompanied by cobalt, both being found in meteoric iron. 2. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. [Colloq. U.S.] {Nickel silver}, an alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; -- usually called {german silver}; called also {argentan}. | |
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Silver \Sil"ver\, n. [OE. silver, selver, seolver, AS. seolfor, siolfur, siolufr, silofr, sylofr; akin to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG. silabar, silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan. s[94]lv, Goth. silubr, Russ. serebro, Lith. sidabras; of unknown origin.] 1. (Chem.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the [bd]noble[b8] metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5. Note: Silver was known under the name of luna to the ancients and also to the alchemists. Some of its compounds, as the halogen salts, are remarkable for the effect of light upon them, and are used in photography. 2. Coin made of silver; silver money. 3. Anything having the luster or appearance of silver. 4. The color of silver. Note: Silver is used in the formation of many compounds of obvious meaning; as, silver-armed, silver-bright, silver-buskined, silver-coated, silver-footed, silver-haired, silver-headed, silver-mantled, silver-plated, silver-slippered, silver-sounding, silver-studded, silver-tongued, silver-white. See {Silver}, a. {Black silver} (Min.), stephanite; -- called also {brittle silver ore}, or {brittle silver glance}. {Fulminating silver}. (Chem.) (a) A black crystalline substance, {Ag2O.(NH3)2}, obtained by dissolving silver oxide in aqua ammonia. When dry it explodes violently on the slightest percussion. (b) Silver fulminate, a white crystalline substance, {Ag2C2N2O2}, obtained by adding alcohol to a solution of silver nitrate. When dry it is violently explosive. {German silver}. (Chem.) See under {German}. {Gray silver}. (Min.) See {Freieslebenite}. {Horn silver}. (Min.) See {Cerargyrite}. {King's silver}. (O. Eng. Law) See {Postfine}. {Red silver}, [or] {Ruby silver}. (Min.) See {Proustite}, and {Pyrargyrite}. {Silver beater}, one who beats silver into silver leaf or silver foil. {Silver glance}, [or] {Vitreous silver}. (Min.) See {Argentine}. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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Tinder \Tin"der\, n. [OE. tinder, tunder, AS. tynder, tyndre; akin to tendan to kindle, D. tonder tinder, G. zunder, OHG. zuntara, zuntra, Icel. tundr, Sw. tunder, Dan. t[94]nder. See {Tind}.] Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen. {German tinder}. Same as {Amadou}. {Tinder box}, a box in which tinder is kept. | |
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German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}. {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp. {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds. {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. {German tinder}. See {Amadou}. | |
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Wheat \Wheat\ (hw[emac]t), n. [OE. whete, AS. hw[aemac]te; akin to OS. hw[emac]ti, D. weit, G. weizen, OHG. weizzi, Icel. hveiti, Sw. hvete, Dan. hvede, Goth. hwaiteis, and E. white. See {White}.] (Bot.) A cereal grass ({Triticum vulgare}) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race. Note: Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat, white wheat, bald wheat, bearded wheat, winter wheat, summer wheat, and the like. Wheat is not known to exist as a wild native plant, and all statements as to its origin are either incorrect or at best only guesses. {Buck wheat}. (Bot.) See {Buckwheat}. {German wheat}. (Bot.) See 2d {Spelt}. {Guinea wheat} (Bot.), a name for Indian corn. {Indian wheat}, [or] {Tartary wheat} (Bot.), a grain ({Fagopyrum Tartaricum}) much like buckwheat, but only half as large. {Turkey wheat} (Bot.), a name for Indian corn. {Wheat aphid}, [or] {Wheat aphis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Aphis and allied genera, which suck the sap of growing wheat. {Wheat beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small, slender, rusty brown beetle ({Sylvanus Surinamensis}) whose larv[91] feed upon wheat, rice, and other grains. (b) A very small, reddish brown, oval beetle ({Anobium paniceum}) whose larv[91] eat the interior of grains of wheat. {Wheat duck} (Zo[94]l.), the American widgeon. [Western U. S.] {Wheat fly}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Wheat midge}, below. {Wheat grass} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Agropyrum caninum}) somewhat resembling wheat. It grows in the northern parts of Europe and America. {Wheat jointworm}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Jointworm}. {Wheat louse} (Zo[94]l.), any wheat aphid. {Wheat maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a wheat midge. {Wheat midge}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small two-winged fly ({Diplosis tritici}) which is very destructive to growing wheat, both in Europe and America. The female lays her eggs in the flowers of wheat, and the larv[91] suck the juice of the young kernels and when full grown change to pup[91] in the earth. (b) The Hessian fly. See under {Hessian}. {Wheat moth} (Zo[94]l.), any moth whose larv[91] devour the grains of wheat, chiefly after it is harvested; a grain moth. See {Angoumois Moth}, also {Grain moth}, under {Grain}. {Wheat thief} (Bot.), gromwell; -- so called because it is a troublesome weed in wheat fields. See {Gromwell}. {Wheat thrips} (Zo[94]l.), a small brown thrips ({Thrips cerealium}) which is very injurious to the grains of growing wheat. {Wheat weevil}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The grain weevil. (b) The rice weevil when found in wheat. | |
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Spelt \Spelt\, n. [AS. spelt, fr. L. spelta.] (Bot.) A species of grain ({Triticum Spelta}) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also {German wheat}. | |
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Germander \Ger*man"der\, n. [OE. germaunder, F. germandr[82]e, It. calamandrea, L. chamaedrys, fr. Gr.[?]; [?] on the earth or ground + [?] tree. See {Humble}, and {Tree}.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Teucrium} (esp. {Teucrium Cham[91]drys} or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. {American germander}, {Teucrium Canadense}. {Germander chickweed}, {Veronica agrestis}. {Water germander}, {Teucrium Scordium}. {Wood germander}, {Teucrium Scorodonia}. | |
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Germander \Ger*man"der\, n. [OE. germaunder, F. germandr[82]e, It. calamandrea, L. chamaedrys, fr. Gr.[?]; [?] on the earth or ground + [?] tree. See {Humble}, and {Tree}.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Teucrium} (esp. {Teucrium Cham[91]drys} or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. {American germander}, {Teucrium Canadense}. {Germander chickweed}, {Veronica agrestis}. {Water germander}, {Teucrium Scordium}. {Wood germander}, {Teucrium Scorodonia}. | |
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Germane \Ger*mane"\, a. [See {German} akin, nearly related.] Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. --Shak. [An amendment] must be germane. --Barclay (Digest). | |
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Germanic \Ger*man"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, germanium. | |
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Germanic \Ger*man"ic\, a. [L. Germanicus: cf. F. germanique. See {German}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy. 2. Teutonic. [A loose sense] | |
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Germanism \Ger"man*ism\, n. [Cf. F. germanisme.] 1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. --J. W. Alexander. | |
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Ekasilicon \Ek`a*sil"i*con\, n. [Skr. [emac]ka one + E. silicon.] (Chem.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named {germanium}; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See {Germanium}, and cf. {Ekabor}. | |
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Germanium \Ger*ma"ni*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. Germania Germany.] (Chem.) A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3. | |
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Ekasilicon \Ek`a*sil"i*con\, n. [Skr. [emac]ka one + E. silicon.] (Chem.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named {germanium}; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See {Germanium}, and cf. {Ekabor}. | |
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Germanium \Ger*ma"ni*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. Germania Germany.] (Chem.) A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3. | |
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Germanization \Ger`man*i*za"tion\, n. The act of Germanizing. --M. Arnold. | |
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Germanize \Ger"man*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Germanized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Germanizing}.] To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society. | |
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Germanize \Ger"man*ize\, v. i. To reason or write after the manner of the Germans. | |
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Germanize \Ger"man*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Germanized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Germanizing}.] To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society. | |
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Germanize \Ger"man*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Germanized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Germanizing}.] To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society. | |
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German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. {Germans}[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis origin.] 1. A native or one of the people of Germany. 2. The German language. 3. (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. (b) A social party at which the german is danced. {High German}, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the 15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature. The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern literary language, are often called Middle German, and the Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is also used to cover both groups. {Low German}, the language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including {Friesic}; {Anglo-Saxon} or {Saxon}; {Old Saxon}; {Dutch} or {Low Dutch}, with its dialect, {Flemish}; and {Plattdeutsch} (called also {Low German}), spoken in many dialects. | |
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Germen \Ger"men\ (j[etil]r"m[ecr]n), n.; pl. E. {Germens}, L. {Germina}. [L.] See {Germ}. | |
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Germen \Ger"men\ (j[etil]r"m[ecr]n), n.; pl. E. {Germens}, L. {Germina}. [L.] See {Germ}. | |
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Germen \Ger"men\ (j[etil]r"m[ecr]n), n.; pl. E. {Germens}, L. {Germina}. [L.] See {Germ}. | |
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Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells. | |
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Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See {Germ}.] Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. {Germinal layers} (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes included. {Germinal membrane}. (Biol.) Same as {Blastoderm}. {Germinal spot} (Biol.), the nucleolus of the ovum. {Germinal vesicle}, (Biol.), the nucleus of the ovum of animals. | |
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Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See {Germ}.] Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. {Germinal layers} (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes included. {Germinal membrane}. (Biol.) Same as {Blastoderm}. {Germinal spot} (Biol.), the nucleolus of the ovum. {Germinal vesicle}, (Biol.), the nucleus of the ovum of animals. | |
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Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See {Germ}.] Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. {Germinal layers} (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes included. {Germinal membrane}. (Biol.) Same as {Blastoderm}. {Germinal spot} (Biol.), the nucleolus of the ovum. {Germinal vesicle}, (Biol.), the nucleus of the ovum of animals. | |
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Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See {Germ}.] Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. {Germinal layers} (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes included. {Germinal membrane}. (Biol.) Same as {Blastoderm}. {Germinal spot} (Biol.), the nucleolus of the ovum. {Germinal vesicle}, (Biol.), the nucleus of the ovum of animals. | |
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Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See {Germ}.] Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. {Germinal layers} (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes included. {Germinal membrane}. (Biol.) Same as {Blastoderm}. {Germinal spot} (Biol.), the nucleolus of the ovum. {Germinal vesicle}, (Biol.), the nucleus of the ovum of animals. | |
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Germinant \Ger"mi*nant\, a. [L. germinans, p. pr.] Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds. | |
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Germinate \Ger"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Germinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Germinating}.] [L. germinatus, p. p. of germinare to sprout, fr. germen. See {Germ}.] To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ. --Bacon. | |
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Germinate \Ger"mi*nate\, v. t. To cause to sprout. --Price (1610). | |
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Germinate \Ger"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Germinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Germinating}.] [L. germinatus, p. p. of germinare to sprout, fr. germen. See {Germ}.] To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ. --Bacon. | |
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Germinate \Ger"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Germinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Germinating}.] [L. germinatus, p. p. of germinare to sprout, fr. germen. See {Germ}.] To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ. --Bacon. | |
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Germination \Ger`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. germinatio: cf. F. germination.] The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. {Germination apparatus}, an apparatus for malting grain. | |
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Germination \Ger`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. germinatio: cf. F. germination.] The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. {Germination apparatus}, an apparatus for malting grain. | |
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Germinative \Ger"mi*na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. germinatif.] Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. {Germinative spot}, {Germinative vesicle}. (Biol.) Same as {Germinal spot}, {Germinal vesicle}, under {Germinal}. | |
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Germinative \Ger"mi*na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. germinatif.] Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. {Germinative spot}, {Germinative vesicle}. (Biol.) Same as {Germinal spot}, {Germinal vesicle}, under {Germinal}. | |
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Germinative \Ger"mi*na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. germinatif.] Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. {Germinative spot}, {Germinative vesicle}. (Biol.) Same as {Germinal spot}, {Germinal vesicle}, under {Germinal}. | |
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Gerrymander \Ger`ry*man"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gerrymandered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gerrymandering}.] To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent. [Political Cant, U. S.] Note: This was done in Massachusetts at a time when Elbridge Gerry was governor, and was attributed to his influence, hence the name; though it is now known that he was opposed to the measure. --Bartlett. | |
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Gerrymander \Ger`ry*man"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gerrymandered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gerrymandering}.] To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent. [Political Cant, U. S.] Note: This was done in Massachusetts at a time when Elbridge Gerry was governor, and was attributed to his influence, hence the name; though it is now known that he was opposed to the measure. --Bartlett. | |
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Gerrymander \Ger`ry*man"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gerrymandered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gerrymandering}.] To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent. [Political Cant, U. S.] Note: This was done in Massachusetts at a time when Elbridge Gerry was governor, and was attributed to his influence, hence the name; though it is now known that he was opposed to the measure. --Bartlett. | |
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Gormand \Gor"mand\, a. Gluttonous; voracious. --Pope. | |
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Gormand \Gor"mand\, n. [F. gourmand; cf. Prov. F. gourmer to sip, to lap, gourmacher to eat improperly, F. gourme mumps, glanders, Icel. gormr mud, mire, Prov. E. gorm to smear, daub; all perh. akin to E. gore blood, filth. Cf. {Gourmand}.] A greedy or ravenous eater; a {luxurious feeder}; {a gourmand}. | |
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Gormander \Gor"mand*er\, n. See {Gormand}, n. [Obs.] | |
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Gormandism \Gor"mand*ism\, n. Gluttony. | |
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Gormandize \Gor"mand*ize\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Gormandized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gormandizing}.] [F. gourmandise gluttony. See {Gormand}.] To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. --Shak. | |
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Gormandize \Gor"mand*ize\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Gormandized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gormandizing}.] [F. gourmandise gluttony. See {Gormand}.] To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. --Shak. | |
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Gormandizer \Gor"mand*i`zer\, n. A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton. | |
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Gormandize \Gor"mand*ize\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Gormandized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gormandizing}.] [F. gourmandise gluttony. See {Gormand}.] To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. --Shak. | |
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Gourmand \Gour"mand\, n. [F.] A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See {Gormand}. That great gourmand, fat Apicius --B. Jonson. | |
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Grain \Grain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Graining.}] 1. To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc. 2. To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains. 3. To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.). | |
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Graining \Grain"ing\, n. 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. --Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc. 4. (Soap Making) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. | |
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Graining \Grain"ing\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace. | |
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Graminaceous \Gram"i*na"ceous\, a. [L. gramen, graminis, grass.] Pertaining to, or resembling, the grasses; gramineous; as, graminaceous plants. | |
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Gramineal \Gra*min"e*al\, a. Gramineous. | |
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Gramineous \Gra*min"e*ous\, a. [L. gramineus, fr. gramen, graminis, grass.] (Bot.) Like, Or pertaining to, grass. See {Grass}, n., 2. | |
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Graminifolious \Gram"i*ni*fo"li*ous\, a. [L. gramen, graminis, grass + folium leaf.] (Bot.) Bearing leaves resembling those of grass. | |
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Graminivorous \Gram"i*niv"o*rous\, a. [L. gramen, graminis, grass + vorare to eat greedily.] Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals. | |
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Gramme machine \Gramme" ma*chine"\ (Elec.) A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. --Knight. | |
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Grannam \Gran"nam\, n. A grandam. [Colloq.] | |
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Manganite \Man"ga*nite\, n. 1. (Min.) One of the oxides of manganese; -- called also {gray manganese ore}. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive. 2. (Chem.) A compound of manganese dioxide with a metallic oxide; so called as though derived from the hypothetical manganous acid. | |
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Nun \Nun\, n. [OE. nunne, AS. nunne, fr. L. nonna nun, nonnus monk; cf. Gr. [?], [?]; of unknown origin. Cf. {Nunnery}.] 1. A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. --Wordsworth. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head. (b) The smew. (c) The European blue titmouse. {Gray nuns} (R. C. Ch.), the members of a religious order established in Montreal in 1745, whence branches were introduced into the United States in 1853; -- so called from the color or their robe, and known in religion as {Sisters of Charity of Montreal}. {Nun buoy}. See under {Buoy}. | |
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Green \Green\, a. [Compar. {Greener}; superl. {Greenest.}] [OE. grene, AS. gr?ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr?ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr?n, Dan. & Sw. gr?n, Icel. gr?nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See {Grow.}] 1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. 2. Having a sickly color; wan. To look so green and pale. --Shak. 3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. --Burke. 4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. 5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.] We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L. Watts. 6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. --Sir W. Scott. 7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. --Shak. {Green brier} (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also {cat brier}. {Green con} (Zo[94]l.), the pollock. {Green crab} (Zo[94]l.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named {joe-rocker}. {Green crop}, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc. {Green diallage}. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite. {Green dragon} (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant ({Aris[91]ma Dracontium}), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also {dragon root}. {Green earth} (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also {mountain green}. {Green ebony}. (a) A south American tree ({Jacaranda ovalifolia}), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian green ebony. See {Ebony}. {Green fire} (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due. {Green fly} (Zo[94]l.), any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants. {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary. {Green gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[91]. {Green hand}, a novice. [Colloq.] {Green heart} (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the {Nectandra Rodi[d2]i}, that of Martinique is the {Colubrina ferruginosa}. {Green iron ore} (Min.) dufrenite. {Green laver} (Bot.), an edible seaweed ({Ulva latissima}); -- called also {green sloke}. {Green lead ore} (Min.), pyromorphite. {Green linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the greenfinch. {Green looper} (Zo[94]l.), the cankerworm. {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine. {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See {Greengill}. {Green monkey} (Zo[94]l.) a West African long-tailed monkey ({Cercopithecus callitrichus}), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there. {Green salt of Magnus} (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. {Green sand} (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. {Green sea} (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. {Green sickness} (Med.), chlorosis. {Green snake} (Zo[94]l.), one of two harmless American snakes ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [91]stivus}). They are bright green in color. {Green turtle} (Zo[94]l.), an edible marine turtle. See {Turtle}. {Green vitriol}. (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as {copperas}, {melanterite} and {sulphate of iron}. {Green ware}, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. {Green woodpecker} (Zo[94]l.), a common European woodpecker ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}. | |
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Green \Green\, a. [Compar. {Greener}; superl. {Greenest.}] [OE. grene, AS. gr?ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr?ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr?n, Dan. & Sw. gr?n, Icel. gr?nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See {Grow.}] 1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. 2. Having a sickly color; wan. To look so green and pale. --Shak. 3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. --Burke. 4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. 5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.] We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L. Watts. 6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. --Sir W. Scott. 7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. --Shak. {Green brier} (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also {cat brier}. {Green con} (Zo[94]l.), the pollock. {Green crab} (Zo[94]l.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named {joe-rocker}. {Green crop}, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc. {Green diallage}. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite. {Green dragon} (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant ({Aris[91]ma Dracontium}), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also {dragon root}. {Green earth} (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also {mountain green}. {Green ebony}. (a) A south American tree ({Jacaranda ovalifolia}), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian green ebony. See {Ebony}. {Green fire} (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due. {Green fly} (Zo[94]l.), any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants. {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary. {Green gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[91]. {Green hand}, a novice. [Colloq.] {Green heart} (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the {Nectandra Rodi[d2]i}, that of Martinique is the {Colubrina ferruginosa}. {Green iron ore} (Min.) dufrenite. {Green laver} (Bot.), an edible seaweed ({Ulva latissima}); -- called also {green sloke}. {Green lead ore} (Min.), pyromorphite. {Green linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the greenfinch. {Green looper} (Zo[94]l.), the cankerworm. {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine. {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See {Greengill}. {Green monkey} (Zo[94]l.) a West African long-tailed monkey ({Cercopithecus callitrichus}), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there. {Green salt of Magnus} (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. {Green sand} (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. {Green sea} (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. {Green sickness} (Med.), chlorosis. {Green snake} (Zo[94]l.), one of two harmless American snakes ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [91]stivus}). They are bright green in color. {Green turtle} (Zo[94]l.), an edible marine turtle. See {Turtle}. {Green vitriol}. (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as {copperas}, {melanterite} and {sulphate of iron}. {Green ware}, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. {Green woodpecker} (Zo[94]l.), a common European woodpecker ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}. | |
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Green \Green\, a. [Compar. {Greener}; superl. {Greenest.}] [OE. grene, AS. gr?ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr?ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr?n, Dan. & Sw. gr?n, Icel. gr?nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See {Grow.}] 1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. 2. Having a sickly color; wan. To look so green and pale. --Shak. 3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. --Burke. 4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. 5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.] We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L. Watts. 6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. --Sir W. Scott. 7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. --Shak. {Green brier} (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also {cat brier}. {Green con} (Zo[94]l.), the pollock. {Green crab} (Zo[94]l.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named {joe-rocker}. {Green crop}, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc. {Green diallage}. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite. {Green dragon} (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant ({Aris[91]ma Dracontium}), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also {dragon root}. {Green earth} (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also {mountain green}. {Green ebony}. (a) A south American tree ({Jacaranda ovalifolia}), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian green ebony. See {Ebony}. {Green fire} (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due. {Green fly} (Zo[94]l.), any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants. {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary. {Green gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[91]. {Green hand}, a novice. [Colloq.] {Green heart} (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the {Nectandra Rodi[d2]i}, that of Martinique is the {Colubrina ferruginosa}. {Green iron ore} (Min.) dufrenite. {Green laver} (Bot.), an edible seaweed ({Ulva latissima}); -- called also {green sloke}. {Green lead ore} (Min.), pyromorphite. {Green linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the greenfinch. {Green looper} (Zo[94]l.), the cankerworm. {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine. {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See {Greengill}. {Green monkey} (Zo[94]l.) a West African long-tailed monkey ({Cercopithecus callitrichus}), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there. {Green salt of Magnus} (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. {Green sand} (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. {Green sea} (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. {Green sickness} (Med.), chlorosis. {Green snake} (Zo[94]l.), one of two harmless American snakes ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [91]stivus}). They are bright green in color. {Green turtle} (Zo[94]l.), an edible marine turtle. See {Turtle}. {Green vitriol}. (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as {copperas}, {melanterite} and {sulphate of iron}. {Green ware}, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. {Green woodpecker} (Zo[94]l.), a common European woodpecker ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Greening \Green"ing\, n. A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Green \Green\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Greened} (great): p. pr. & vb. n. {Greening}.] To make green. Great spring before Greened all the year. --Thomson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Griman \Gri"man\, n. The man who manipulates a grip. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Griminess \Grim"i*ness\ n. The state of being grimy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grin \Grin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Grinned} (gr[icr]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Grinning}.] [OE. grinnen, grennen, AS. grennian, Sw. grina; akin to D. grijnen, G. greinen, OHG. grinan, Dan. grine. [root]35. Cf. {Groan}.] 1. To show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl. 2. To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain. The pangs of death do make him grin. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grinningly \Grin"ning*ly\, adv. In a grinning manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Groan \Groan\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Groaned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Groaning}.] [OE. gronen, granen, granien, AS. gr[?]nian, fr. the root of grennian to grin. [fb]35. See {2d Grin}, and cf. {Grunt}.] 1. To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan. For we . . . do groan, being burdened. --2 Cor. v. 4. He heard the groaning of the oak. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To strive after earnestly, as with groans. Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so. --Herbert. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Groin \Groin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Groined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Groining}.] (Arch.) To fashion into groins; to build with groins. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. --Emerson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Groom \Groom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Groomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grooming}.] To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Caffeine \Caf*fe"ine\, n. [Cf. F. caf[82]ine. See {Coffee}.] (Chem.) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid {theine} from tea leaves, and with {guaranine} from guarana. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Guaranine \Gua"ra*nine`\, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as {Caffeine}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Caffeine \Caf*fe"ine\, n. [Cf. F. caf[82]ine. See {Coffee}.] (Chem.) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid {theine} from tea leaves, and with {guaranine} from guarana. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Guaranine \Gua"ra*nine`\, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as {Caffeine}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gyromancy \Gyr"o*man"cy\, n. [Gr. [?] ring, circle + -mancy: cf. F. gyromancie.] A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it. --Brande & C. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
German Valley, IL (village, FIPS 29093) Location: 42.21584 N, 89.48379 W Population (1990): 480 (179 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61039 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Germansville, PA Zip code(s): 18053 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Germanton, NC Zip code(s): 27019 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Germantown, IL (village, FIPS 29041) Location: 38.55227 N, 89.53758 W Population (1990): 1167 (428 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62245 Germantown, KY (city, FIPS 30718) Location: 38.65196 N, 83.96716 W Population (1990): 213 (100 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 41044 Germantown, MD (CDP, FIPS 32025) Location: 39.17819 N, 77.26065 W Population (1990): 41145 (17121 housing units) Area: 27.8 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 20876 Germantown, NY Zip code(s): 12526 Germantown, OH (city, FIPS 29932) Location: 39.63495 N, 84.36246 W Population (1990): 4916 (1884 housing units) Area: 9.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45327 Germantown, TN (city, FIPS 28960) Location: 35.08887 N, 89.79170 W Population (1990): 32893 (11131 housing units) Area: 39.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38138, 38139 Germantown, WI (village, FIPS 28875) Location: 43.23605 N, 88.12031 W Population (1990): 13658 (5100 housing units) Area: 89.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53022 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Germantown Hills, IL (village, FIPS 29080) Location: 40.76893 N, 89.46796 W Population (1990): 1195 (412 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Geronimo, OK (town, FIPS 29100) Location: 34.48247 N, 98.38327 W Population (1990): 990 (384 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73543 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Gorman, CA Zip code(s): 93243 Gorman, NC (CDP, FIPS 27120) Location: 36.03800 N, 78.81306 W Population (1990): 1090 (442 housing units) Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Gorman, TX (city, FIPS 30308) Location: 32.21397 N, 98.67181 W Population (1990): 1290 (609 housing units) Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76454 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Gormania, WV Zip code(s): 26720 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Graymont, IL Zip code(s): 61743 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Green Mountain Falls, CO (town, FIPS 32650) Location: 38.93415 N, 105.01967 W Population (1990): 663 (554 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Greenmount, MD Zip code(s): 21074 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Greenmountain, NC Zip code(s): 28740 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
German alphabet) and spoken in Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland. German writing normally uses four non-{ASCII} characters: "äöüß", the first three have "umlauts" (two dots over the top): A O and U and the last is a double-S ("scharfes S") which looks like the Greek letter beta (except in capitalised words where it should be written "SS"). These can be written in ASCII in several ways, the most common are ae, oe ue AE OE UE ss or sz and the {TeX} versions "a "o "u "A "O "U "s. See also {ABEND}, {blinkenlights}, {DAU}, {DIN}, {gedanken}, {GMD}, {kluge}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:soc.culture.german}. {(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/soc.answers/german-faq)}, {(ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/pub/dictionaries/german.dat.Z)}. (1995-03-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
green monitor {Advanced Power Management} | |
From The Elements (22Oct97) [elements]: | |
germanium Symbol: Ge Atomic number: 32 Atomic weight: 72.59 Lustrous hard metalloid element, belongs to group 14 of the periodic table. Forms a large number of organometallic compounds. Predicted by Mendeleev in 1871, it was actually found in 1886 by Winkler. | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
Germany Germany:Geography Location: Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark Map references: Europe Area: total area: 356,910 sq km land area: 349,520 sq km comparative area: slightly smaller than Montana note: includes the formerly separate Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and Berlin following formal unification on 3 October 1990 Land boundaries: total 3,621 km, Austria 784 km, Belgium 167 km, Czech Republic 646 km, Denmark 68 km, France 451 km, Luxembourg 138 km, Netherlands 577 km, Poland 456 km, Switzerland 334 km Coastline: 2,389 km Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: none Climate: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm, tropical foehn wind; high relative humidity Terrain: lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south Natural resources: iron ore, coal, potash, timber, lignite, uranium, copper, natural gas, salt, nickel Land use: arable land: 34% permanent crops: 1% meadows and pastures: 16% forest and woodland: 30% other: 19% Irrigated land: 4,800 sq km (1989 est.) Environment: current issues: emissions from coal-burning utilities and industries and lead emissions from vehicle exhausts (the result of continued use of leaded fuels) contribute to air pollution; acid rain, resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions, is damaging forests; heavy pollution in the Baltic Sea from raw sewage and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany natural hazards: NA international agreements: party to - Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands, Whaling; signed, but not ratified - Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes Note: strategic location on North European Plain and along the entrance to the Baltic Sea Germany:People Population: 81,337,541 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 16% (female 6,518,108; male 6,857,577) 15-64 years: 68% (female 27,167,824; male 28,130,083) 65 years and over: 16% (female 8,127,938; male 4,536,011) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 0.26% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 10.98 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 10.83 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 2.46 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 6.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 76.62 years male: 73.5 years female: 79.92 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.5 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: German(s) adjective: German Ethnic divisions: German 95.1%, Turkish 2.3%, Italians 0.7%, Greeks 0.4%, Poles 0.4%, other 1.1% (made up largely of people fleeing the war in the former Yugoslavia) Religions: Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 37%, unaffiliated or other 18% Languages: German Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991 est.) total population: 99% Labor force: 36.75 million by occupation: industry 41%, agriculture 6%, other 53% (1987) Germany:Government Names: conventional long form: Federal Republic of Germany conventional short form: Germany local long form: Bundesrepublik Deutschland local short form: Deutschland Digraph: GM Type: federal republic Capital: Berlin note: the shift from Bonn to Berlin will take place over a period of years with Bonn retaining many administrative functions and several ministries Administrative divisions: 16 states (laender, singular - land); Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thueringen Independence: 18 January 1871 (German Empire unification); divided into four zones of occupation (UK, US, USSR, and later, France) in 1945 following World War II; Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or West Germany) proclaimed 23 May 1949 and included the former UK, US, and French zones; German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) proclaimed 7 October 1949 and included the former USSR zone; unification of West Germany and East Germany took place 3 October 1990; all four power rights formally relinquished 15 March 1991 National holiday: German Unity Day (Day of Unity), 3 October (1990) Constitution: 23 May 1949, known as Basic Law; became constitution of the united German people 3 October 1990 Legal system: civil law system with indigenous concepts; judicial review of legislative acts in the Federal Constitutional Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Roman HERZOG (since 1 July 1994) head of government: Chancellor Dr. Helmut KOHL (since 4 October 1982) cabinet: Cabinet; appointed by the president upon the proposal of the chancellor Legislative branch: bicameral chamber (no official name for the two chambers as a whole) Federal Assembly (Bundestag): last held 16 October 1994 (next to be held by NA 1998); results - CDU 34.2%, SPD 36.4%, Alliance 90/Greens 7.3%, CSU 7.3%, FDP 6.9%, PDS 4.4%, Republicans 1.9% ; seats - (662 total, but number can vary) CDU 244, SPD 252, Alliance 90/Greens 49, CSU 50, FDP 47, PDS 30; elected by direct popular vote under a system combining direct and proportional representation; a party must win 5% of the national vote or 3 direct mandates to gain representation Federal Council (Bundesrat): State governments are directly represented by votes; each has 3 to 6 votes depending on size and are required to vote as a block; current composition: votes - (68 total) SPD-led states 37, CDU-led states 31 Judicial branch: Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) Political parties and leaders: Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Helmut KOHL, chairman; Christian Social Union (CSU), Theo WAIGEL, chairman; Free Democratic Party (FDP), Klaus KINKEL, chairman; Social Democratic Party (SPD), Rudolf SCHARPING, chairman; Alliance '90/Greens, Krista SAGER, Juergen TRITTIN, cochairpersons; Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), Lothar BISKY, chairman; Republikaner, Rolf SCHLIERER, chairman; National Democratic Party (NPD), Guenter DECKERT; Communist Party (DKP), Rolf PRIEMER Other political or pressure groups: expellee, refugee, and veterans groups Member of: AfDB, AG (observer), AsDB, Australia Group, BDEAC, BIS, CBSS, CCC, CDB (non-regional), CE, CERN, EBRD, EC, ECE, EIB, ESA, FAO, G- 5, G- 7, G-10, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MINURSO, MTCR, NACC, NAM (guest), NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OSCE, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNOMIG, UPU, WEU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: Ambassador Juergen CHROBOG chancery: 4645 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20007 telephone: [1] (202) 298-4000 FAX: [1] (202) 298-4249 consulate(s) general: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Seattle consulate(s): Manila (Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands) and Wellington (America Samoa) US diplomatic representation: chief of mission: Ambassador Charles E. REDMAN embassy: Deichmanns Aue 29, 53170 Bonn mailing address: Unit 21701, Bonn; APO AE 09080 telephone: [49] (228) 3391 FAX: [49] (228) 339-2663 branch office: Berlin consulate(s) general: Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, and Stuttgart Flag: three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and yellow Economy Overview: Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, progress towards economic integration between eastern and western Germany is clearly visible, yet the eastern region almost certainly will remain dependent on subsidies funded by western Germany until well into the next century. The staggering $390 billion in western German assistance that the eastern states have received since 1990 - 40 times the amount in real terms of US Marshall Fund aid sent to West Germany after World War II - is just beginning to have an impact on the eastern German standard of living, which plummeted after unification. Assistance to the east continues to run at roughly $100 billion annually. Although the growth rate in the east was much greater than in the west in 1993-94, eastern GDP per capita nonetheless remains well below preunification levels; it will take 10-15 years for the eastern states to match western Germany's living standards. The economic recovery in the east is led by the construction industries which account for one-third of industrial output, with growth increasingly supported by the service sectors and light manufacturing industries. Eastern Germany's economy is changing from one anchored on manufacturing to a more service-oriented economy. Western Germany, with three times the per capita output of the eastern states, has an advanced market economy and is a world leader in exports. The strong recovery in 1994 from recession began in the export sector and spread to the investment and consumption sectors in response to falling interest rates. Western Germany has a highly urbanized and skilled population that enjoys excellent living standards, abundant leisure time, and comprehensive social welfare benefits. It is relatively poor in natural resources, coal being the most important mineral. Western Germany's world-class companies manufacture technologically advanced goods. The region's economy is mature: services and manufacturing account for the dominant share of economic activities, and raw materials and semimanufactured goods constitute a large portion of imports. National product: Germany: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.3446 trillion (1994 est.) western: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.2363 trillion (1994 est.) eastern: GDP - purchasing power parity - $108.3 billion (1994 est.) National product real growth rate: Germany: 2.9% (1994 est.) western: 2.3% (1994 est.) eastern: 9.2% (1994 est.) National product per capita: Germany: $16,580 (1994 est.) western: $19,660 (1994 est.) eastern: $5,950 (1994 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): western: 3% (1994) eastern: 3.2% (1994 est.) Unemployment rate: western: 8.2% (December 1994) eastern: 13.5% (December 1994) Budget: revenues: $690 billion expenditures: $780 billion, including capital expenditures of $96.5 billion (1994) Exports: $437 billion (f.o.b., 1994) commodities: manufactures 89.3% (including machines and machine tools, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel products), agricultural products 5.5%, raw materials 2.7%, fuels 1.3% (1993) partners: EC 47.9% (France 11.7%, Netherlands 7.4%, Italy 7.5%, UK 7.7%, Belgium-Luxembourg 6.6%), EFTA 15.5%, US 7.7%, Eastern Europe 5.2%, OPEC 3.0% (1993) Imports: $362 billion (f.o.b., 1994) commodities: manufactures 75.1%, agricultural products 10.0%, fuels 8.3%, raw materials 5.0% (1993) partners: EC 46.4% (France 11.3%, Netherlands 8.4%, Italy 8.1%, UK 6.0%, Belgium-Luxembourg 5.7%), EFTA 14.3%, US 7.3%, Japan 6.3%, Eastern Europe 5.1%, OPEC 2.6% (1993) External debt: $NA Industrial production: western: growth rate 2.8% (1994) eastern: growth rate $NA Electricity: capacity: 115,430,000 kW production: 493 billion kWh consumption per capita: 5,683 kWh (1993) Industries: western: among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics; food and beverages eastern: metal fabrication, chemicals, brown coal, shipbuilding, machine building, food and beverages, textiles, petroleum refining Agriculture: western: accounts for about 1% of GDP (including fishing and forestry); diversified crop and livestock farming; principal crops and livestock include potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets, fruit, cabbage, cattle, pigs, poultry; net importer of food eastern: accounts for about 10% of GDP (including fishing and forestry); principal crops - wheat, rye, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, fruit; livestock products include pork, beef, chicken, milk, hides and skins; net importer of food Illicit drugs: source of precursor chemicals for South American cocaine processors; transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and Latin American cocaine for West European markets Economic aid: western-donor: ODA and OOF commitments (1970-89), $75.5 billion eastern-donor: bilateral to non-Communist less developed countries (1956-89) $4 billion Currency: 1 deutsche mark (DM) = 100 pfennige Exchange rates: deutsche marks (DM) per US$1 - 1.5313 (January 1995), 1.6228 (1994), 1.6533 (1993), 1.5617 (1992), 1.6595 (1991), 1.6157 (1990) Fiscal year: calendar year Germany:Transportation Railroads: total: 43,457 km standard gauge: 43,190 km (electrified 16,694 km) narrow gauge: 267 km (1994) Highways: total: 636,282 km paved: 501,282 km (10,955 km of autobahn) unpaved: 135,000 km (1991) Inland waterways: western: 5,222 km, of which almost 70% are usable by craft of 1,000-metric-ton capacity or larger; major rivers include the Rhine and Elbe; Kiel Canal is an important connection between the Baltic Sea and North Sea eastern: 2,319 km (1988) Pipelines: crude oil 3,644 km; petroleum products 3,946 km; natural gas 97,564 km (1988) Ports: Berlin, Bonn, Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cologne, Dresden, Duisburg, Emden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Lubeck, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Rostock, Stuttgart Merchant marine: total: 481 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,065,074 GRT/6,409,198 DWT ships by type: barge carrier 6, bulk 8, cargo 224, chemical tanker 16, combination bulk 4, combination ore/oil 5, container 158, liquefied gas tanker 13, oil tanker 10, passenger 3, railcar carrier 4, refrigerated cargo 7, roll-on/roll-off cargo 18, short-sea passenger 5 note: the German register includes ships of the former East and West Germany Airports: total: 660 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 13 with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 64 with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 68 with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 53 with paved runways under 914 m: 381 with unpaved runways over 3,047 m: 2 with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 8 with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 9 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 62 Germany:Communications Telephone system: western: 40,300,000 telephones; highly developed, modern telecommunication service to all parts of the country; fully adequate in all respects; intensively developed, highly redundant cable and microwave radio relay networks, all completely automatic local: very modern intercity: domestic satellite, microwave radio relay, and cable systems international: 12 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean), 2 INTELSAT (Indian Ocean), and 1 EUTELSAT earth station; 2 HF radiocommunication centers; tropospheric scatter links eastern: 3,970,000 telephones; badly needs modernization local: NA intercity: NA international: 1 INTELSAT earth station and 1 Intersputnik system Radio: western: NA broadcast stations: AM 80, FM 470, shortwave 0 radios: NA eastern: NA broadcast stations: AM 23, FM 17, shortwave 0 radios: 67 million Television: broadcast stations: 246 (repeaters 6,000); note - there are 15 Russian repeaters in eastern Germany televisions: 25 million in western Germany, 6 million in eastern Germany Germany:Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy (includes Naval Air Arm), Air Force, Border Police, Coast Guard Manpower availability: males 15-49 20,274,127; males fit for military service 17,472,940; males reach military age (18) annually 428,082 (1995 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $40 billion, 1.8% of GNP (1995) |