Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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; the state, form or construction of the bud of plants, of the leaves, stipules, petioles or scales. Martyn.

GEM'MED, pp.

Adorned with jewels or buds.

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

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

GEM'MI-NESS, n.

Spruceness; smartness.

GEM'MING, ppr.

Adorning with jewels or buds.

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

GEMS'BOK, 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 gendarms. Hume.

GEN'DER, n. [Fr. genre; Sp. genero; It. genere; from L. genus, from geno, gigno, Gr. γενναω, γινομαι, to beget, or to be born; Ir. geinim; W. geni, to be born; gan, a birth; cenaw, offspring; Gr. γενος, γονος; Eng. kind. From the same root, Gr. γυνη, 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 to 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,

GEN-E-A-LOG'IC-AL, a. [from genealogy.]

1. Pertaining to the descent of persons or families; exhibiting the succession of families from a progenitor; as, a genealogical table.
2. According to the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; as, genealogical order.

GEN-E-A-LOG'IC-AL-LY, adv.

By genealogy.

GEN-E-AL'O-GIST, n.

He who traces descents of persons or families.

GEN-E-AL'O-GIZE, v.i.

To relate the history of descents. Trans. of Pausanias.

GEN-E-AL'O-GY, n. [L. genealogia; Gr. γενεαλογια; γενος, race, and λογος, discourse; Sax. cyn, gecynd; Eng. kind.]

1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession.
2. Pedigree; lineage; regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor.

GEN'E-RA,

See Genus.