Emily Dickinson Lexicon

genuine, adj. [L. genuinus < Aryan gen 'to beget, produce, be born'.]

Real; pure; not fake; not spurious, false, or adulterated; natural; not foreign or produced; proper or peculiar to a thing.

geography, n. [Fr. < L. < Gk 'earth' + 'write'.]

Discipline or science that studies and describes the earth's surface according to forms, physical features, its natural and political boundaries, climate, etc., of various countries.

geometric, adj. [see geometry, n.]

Having to do with shapes or angles; pertinent to geometry.

geometry, n. [Fr. < L. < Gk 'earth' + 'measure'.]

Science that investigates properties and relations of magnitudes in space, such as lines, surfaces, solids, velocity, weight, etc.

geranium (-s), n. [L. < Gk 'crane'.]

Green shrub-like plant growing wild or cultivated for its fragrant flower.

germ (-'s), n. [Fr. < L. germen.]

1. Seed or spore of a plant which is capable of development in the likeness of that from which it sprang.
2. Origin from which anything springs.

germination, n. [L.]

Impregnation; genesis of life.

Gessler, proper n. [poss. Germanic 'fellow, companion, journeyman' or 'falconer'.]

Hermann Gessler; early 14^th century Swiss bailiff; Austrian governor of Tyrol; official who tried to punish William Tell by commanding him to shoot an apple off his son's head; tyrant shot by Tell in 1307.

gesture, n. [Med. L. gestura < L. gerere, 'act, carry'.]

Conveyance of ideas, passions, or action through movement of the body or limbs; movement expressive of thought or feeling.

gesture, v. [see gesture, n.]

Express thoughts or emotions through body movement.