Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 12
Geet (n.) Jet. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Geez (n.) The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic.
Compare: Ethiopic
Ethiopic (n.) The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez.
Gehenna (n.) (Jewish Hist.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell. -- Milton.
Gehenna (n.) A place where the wicked are punished after death [syn: Gehenna, Tartarus].
Gehenna, () (originally Ge bene Hinnom; i.e., "the valley of the sons of Hinnom"), a deep, narrow glen to the south of Jerusalem, where the idolatrous Jews offered their children in sacrifice to Molech (2 Chr. 28:3; 33:6; Jer. 7:31; 19:2-6). This valley afterwards became the common receptacle for all the refuse of the city. Here the dead bodies of animals and of criminals, and all kinds of filth, were cast and consumed by fire kept always burning. It thus in process of time became the image of the place of everlasting destruction. In this sense it is used by our Lord in Matt. 5:22, 29, 30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15, 33; Mark 9:43, 45, 47; Luke 12:5. In these passages, and also in James 3:6, the word is uniformly rendered "hell," the Revised Version placing "Gehenna" in the margin. (See HELL; HINNOM.)
Geic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold.
Geic acid. (Chem.) See Humin.
Gein (n.) (Chem.) See Humin.
Compare: Humin
Humin (n.) (Chem.) A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.
Geissler tube () (Elec.) A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.
Geitonogamy (n.) (Bot.) Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.
Gelable (a.) Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.
Gelada (n.) (Zool.) A baboon ({Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.
Gelastic (a.) Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing. "Gelastic muscles." -- Sir T. Browne.
Gelatification (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) The formation of gelatin.
Gelatigenous (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues. Gelatin
Gelatin (n.) Alt. of Gelatine.
Gelatine (n.) (Chem.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order.
Note: Both spellings, gelatin and gelatine, are in good use, but the tendency of writers on physiological chemistry favors the form in -in, as in the United States Dispensatory, the United States Pharmacop[oe]ia, Fownes' Watts' Chemistry, Brande & Cox's Dictionary.
Blasting gelatin, An explosive, containing about ninety-five parts of nitroglycerin and five of collodion.
Gelatin process, A name applied to a number of processes in the arts, involving the use of gelatin. Especially:
Gelatin process, (a) (Photog.) A dry-plate process in which gelatin is used as a substitute for collodion as the sensitized material.
This is the dry-plate process in general use, and plates of extreme sensitiveness are produced by it.
Gelatin process, (b) (Print.) A method of producing photographic copies of drawings, engravings, printed pages, etc., and also of photographic pictures, which can be printed from in a press with ink, or (in some applications of the process) which can be used as the molds of stereotype or electrotype plates.
Gelatin process, (c) (Print. or Copying) A method of producing facsimile copies of an original, written or drawn in aniline ink upon paper, thence transferred to a cake of gelatin softened with glycerin, from which impressions are taken upon ordinary paper.
Vegetable gelatin. See Gliadin.
Gelatin (n.) A colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin [syn: gelatin, gelatine].
Gelatin (n.) An edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods [syn: gelatin, jelly].
Gelatin (n.) A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects [syn: gelatin, gel].
Gelatinated (imp. & p. p.) of Gelatinate.
Gelatinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gelatinate.
Gelatinate (v. t.) To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly.
Gelatinate (v. i.) To be converted into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly.
Gelatination (n.) The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
Gelatine (n.) Same as Gelatin.
Gelatiniferous (a.) (Physiol. Chem.) Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
Gelatiniform (a.) Having the form of gelatin.
Gelatinization (n.) Same as Gelatination.
Gelatinize (v. t.) To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t.
Gelatinize (v. t.) (Photog.) To coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin.
Gelatinize (v. i.) Same as Gelatinate, v. i.
Gelatinize (v.) Coat with gelatin.
Gelatinize (v.) Become gelatinous or change into a jelly; "the starch gelatinized when it was heated" [syn: gelatinize, gelatinise].
Gelatinize (v.) Convert into gelatinous form or jelly; "hot water will gelatinize starch" [syn: gelatinize, gelatinise].
Gelatinous (a.) Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
Gelatinous (a.) Thick like gelatin [syn: gelatinous, gelatinlike, jellylike].
Gelation (n.) (Astron.) The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.
Geld (n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom. [Obs.]
Note: This word occurs in old law books in composition, as in danegeld, or danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc.
Gelded (imp. & p. p.) of Geld.
Gelding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Geld.
Geld (v. t.) To castrate; to emasculate.
Geld (v. t.) To deprive of anything essential.
Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. -- Shak.
Geld (v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Geld (v.) Cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses); "the vet gelded the young horse" [syn: geld, cut].
GELD, () old Eng. law. It signifies a fine or compensation for an offence; also, rent, money or tribute.
Geldable (a.) Capable of being gelded.
Geldable (a.) Liable to taxation. [Obs.] -- Burrill.
Gelder (n.) One who gelds or castrates.
Gelder-rose (n.) Same as Guelder-rose.
Gelding (v. t.) A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.
They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. -- Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).
Gelding (p. pr. a. & vb. n.) from Geld, v. t.
Gelding (n.) Castrated male horse.
Gelid (a.) Cold; very cold; frozen. "Gelid founts." -- Thompson.
Gelid (a.) Extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar].
Gelid (a.) Extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds";
"icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar].
Gelidity (n.) The state of being gelid.
Gelidity (n.) Coldness due to a cold environment [syn: chill, iciness, gelidity].
Gelidly (adv.) In a gelid manner; coldly.
Gelidness (n.) The state of being gelid; gelidity.
Gelly (n.) Jelly. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Gelly (n.) A type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate [syn: gelignite, gelly].
Geloscopy (n.) Divination by means of laughter.
Gelose (n.) (Chem.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.
Gelsemic (a.) Gelseminic.
Gelsemine (n.) (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine ({Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia.
Gelseminic (n.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine ({Gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin.
Gelsemium (n.) (Bot.) A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine ({Gelsemium sempervirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.
Gelsemium (n.) (Med.) The root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc.
Gelsemium (n.) Evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia [syn: Gelsemium, genus Gelsemium].
Gelt (n.) Trubute, tax. [Obs.]
All these the king granted unto them . . . free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner. -- Fuller.
Gelt (n.) A gelding. [Obs.] -- Mortimer.
Gelt (n.) Gilding; tinsel. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Gelt (n.) Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum].
Gem (n.) (Bot.) A bud.
From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem. -- Denham.
Gem (n.) A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. -- Milton.
Gem (n.) Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying.
Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.
Gemmed (imp. & p. p.) of Gem.
Gemming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gem.
Gem (v. t.) To put forth in the form of buds. "Gemmed their blossoms." [R.] -- Milton.
Gem (v. t.) To adorn with gems or precious stones.
Gem (v. t.) To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops.
England is . . . gemmed with castles and palaces. -- W. Irving.
Gem (n.) Art highly prized for its beauty or perfection [syn: gem, treasure].
Gem (n.) A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone, stone].
Gem (n.) A person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem].
Gem (n.) A sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: muffin, gem].
Gem (n.) A precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem, precious stone].
GEM, () Generalized Executive for realtime Multiprocessor applications. (OS)
GEM, () Graphics Environment Manager. (DR, PC)
GEM, () One of the first commercially available GUIs. Borrowing heavily from the Macintosh WIMP-style interface it was available for both the IBM compatible market (being packaged with Amstrad's original PC series) and more successfully for the Atari ST range. The PC version was produced by Digital Research (more famous for DR-DOS, their MS-DOS clone), and was not developed very far. The Atari version, however, continued to be developed until the early 1990s and the later versions supported 24-bit colour modes, full colour icons and a nice looking sculpted 3D interface.
(1997-01-10)
Gem -- U.S. County in Idaho
Population (2000): 15181
Housing Units (2000): 5888
Land area (2000): 562.576688 sq. miles (1457.066871 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.169897 sq. miles (8.209994 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 565.746585 sq. miles (1465.276865 sq. km)
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 43.969570 N, 116.451291 W
Headwords:
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Gem, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 96
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 0.325551 sq. miles (0.843174 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.325551 sq. miles (0.843174 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26050
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.425730 N, 100.896294 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67734
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Gemara (n.) [Heb.] (Jewish Law) The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).
Gemara (n.) The second part of the Talmud consisting primarily of commentary on the Mishna.
Gemaric (a.) Pertaining to the Gemara.
Gemarist (n.) One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.
Gemel (a.) (Her.) Coupled; paired.
Bars gemel (Her.), Two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.
Gemel (n.) One of the twins. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Gemel (n.) (Heb.) One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a.
Two gemels silver between two griffins passant. -- Strype.
Gemel hinge (Locksmithing), A hinge consisting of an eye or loop and a hook.
Gemel ring, A ring with two or more links; a gimbal. See Gimbal.
Gemel window, A window with two bays.
Gemellipa-rous (a.) Producing twins. [R.] -- Bailey.
Geminal (a.) A pair. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Geminate (a.) (Bot.)
In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. -- Gray.
Geminate (v. t.) To double. [R.] -- B. Jonson.
Geminate (n.) A doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate."
Geminate (v.) Form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: reduplicate, geminate].
Geminate (v.) Occur in pairs [syn: pair, geminate].
Geminate (v.) Arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" [syn: pair, geminate].
Geminate (v.) Arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words."
Gemination (n.) A doubling; duplication; repetition. [R.] -- Boyle.
Gemination (n.) The doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect).
Gemination (n.) The act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful" [syn: duplication, gemination].
Gemini (n. pl.) (Astron.) A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.
Gemini (n.) (Astrology) A person who is born while the sun is in Gemini [syn: Gemini, Twin].
Gemini (n.) A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic.
Gemini (n.) The third sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about May 21 to June 20 [syn: Gemini, Gemini the Twins, Twins].
Geminiflorous (a.) (Bot.) Having the flowers arranged in pairs.
Geminous (a.) Double; in pairs. -- Sir T. Browne.
Geminy (n.) Twins; a pair; a couple. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Gemitores (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of birds including the true pigeons.
Gemmae (n. pl. ) of Gemma.
Gemma (n.) (Bot.) A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.
Gemma (n.) (Biol.) A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.
Gemmaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmae; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmae.
Gemmary (a.) Of or pertaining to gems.
Gemmary (n.) A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively.
Gemmate (a.) (Bot.) Having buds; reproducing by buds.
Gemmated (a.) Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.
Gemmation (n.) (Biol.) The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.
Gemmation (n.) (Bot.) The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud.
Gemmation (n.) Asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual [syn: pullulation, gemmation].
Gemmeous (a.) Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems. -- Pennant.
Gemmiferous (a.) Producing gems or buds.
Gemmiferous (a.) (Biol.) Multiplying by buds.
Gemmiferous (a.) Bearing or reproducing by a gemma.
Gemmification (n.) (Biol.) The production of a bud or gem.
Gemmiflorate (a.) (Bot.) Having flowers like buds.
Gemminess (n.) The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness. Gemmipara
Gemmipara (n. pl.) Alt. of Gemmipares.
Gemmipares (n. pl.) (Zool.) Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.
Gemmiparity (n.) (Biol.) Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.
Gemmiparous (a.) (Biol.) Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.
Gemmosity (n.) The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel. [Obs.] -- Bailey.