Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GE-MAR'IC, a.

Pertaining to the Gemara. Encyc.

GEM-BOSS-ED, a.

Bossed with gems. Atherstone.

GEM'EL-LIP'A-ROUS, a. [L. gemellus and pario.]

Producing twins. Dict.

GEM'EL-RING, n.

Rings with two or more links, now gimbal, which see.

GEM'I-NATE, v.t. [L. gemino.]

To double. [Little used.]

GEM-INATION, n.

A doubling; duplication; repetition. Boyle.

GEM'I-NI, n. plur. [L.]

Twins. In astronomy, a constellation or sip of the zodiac, representing Castor and Pollux. In the Britannic catalogue, it contains 85 stars. Encyc.

GEM'I-NOUS, a. [L. geminus.]

Double; in pairs. Brown.

GEM'I-NY, n. [supra.]

Twins; a pair; a couple. Shak.

GEM'MA-RY, a. [from gem.]

Pertaining to gems or jewels.

GEM-MA'TION, n. [L. gemmatio, from gemma.]

In botany, budding; t e state, form or construction of the bud of plants, of the leaves, stipules, petioles or scales. Martyn.

GEM'ME-OUS, a. [L. gemmeus.]

Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems.

GEM'MI-NESS, n.

Spruceness; smartness.

GEMMING, ppr.

Adorning with jewels or buds.

GEM-MIP'A-ROUS, a. [L, gemma, a bud, and pario, bear.]

Producing buds or gems. Martyn.

GEM-MOS'I-TY, n.

The quality of being a gem or jewel.

GEM'MULE, n.

A little gem or bud. Eaton.

GEM'MY, a.

1. Bright; glittering; full of gems.
2. Neat; spruce; smart.

GE-MOTE, n. [Sax.]

A meeting. [Obs. See Meet.]

GEMSBOK, n.

The name given to a variety of the antelope J. Barrow.

GEN-DARM, n.

In France, gens d'armes is the denomination given to a select body of troops, destined to watch over the interior public safety. In the singular, gendarme as written by Lunier, is properly anglicized gendarm.

GEN-DAR-MER-Y, n. [supra]

The body of gendarme. Hume.

GEN'DER, n. [Fr. genre; Sp. genero; It. genere; from L. genus, from gene, gigno, Gr. {foreign}, to beget, or to be born; Ir. {foreign}; W. geni, to be born; gan, a birth; cenaw, offspring; Gr. {foreign}, {foreign}; Eng. kind. From the same root, Gr. {foreign}, a woman, a wife; Sans. gena, a wife, jani, a woman, and genaga, a father. We have begin from the same root. See Begin and Can.]

1. Properly, kind; son; [Obs.] Shak.
2. A sex, male or female. Hence,
3. In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came lo have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender.

GEN'DER, v.i.

To copulate; to breed. Levit. xix.

GEN'DER, v.t.

To beget; but engender is more generally used,