Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GEORGE-NO'BLE, n.

A gold coin in the time of Henry VIII. of the value of 6s. 8d. sterling.

GEOR'GIC, a.

Relating to the doctrine of agriculture and rural affairs.

GEOR'GIC, n. [Gr. {foreign}, rustic; {foreign} and {foreign}, labor.]

A rural poem; a poetical composition on the subject of husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, in a poetical dress; as, the Georgics of Virgil.

GE-OS'CO-PY, n. [Gr; {foreign} and assent.]

Knowledge of the earth, ground or soil, obtained by inspection. Chambers.

GE-OT'IC, a. [Gr. {foreign}, earth.]

Belonging to earth; terrestrial.

GE-PON'ICS, n.

The art or science of cultivating the earth. Evelyn.

GE-RA'NI-UM, n. [L. from Gr. {foreign}, from. {foreign}, crane.]

Crane's bill, a genus of plans, of numerous species, some which are cultivated for their fragrance or the beauty of their flowers.

GE'RENT, a. [L. gerens.]

Bearing; used in Vicegerent.

GER-FAL'CON,

See GYRFALCON.

GERM, n. [L. germen.]

1. In botany, the ovary or seed-bud of a plant, the rudiment of fruit yet m embryo. It is the base or lower part of the pistil, which in the progress of vegetation swells and becomes the seed-vessel. Martyn; Milne.
2. Origin; first principle; that from which any thing springs; as, the germ of civil liberty, or of prosperity.

GER'MAN, a.

Belonging to Germany.

GER'MAN, a. [L. germanus, a brother; Fr. germain.]

1. Cousins german, are the sons or daughters of brothers or sisters; first cousins.
2. Related. [Obs.]. Shak.

GER'MAN, n.

A native of Germany; and by ellipsis, the German language.

GER-'MAN'DER, n.

The popular name of several plants, as the rock germander, of the genus Veronica, and the common and water germander, of the genus Teucrium.

GER-MANIC, a.

Pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic body or confederacy.

GERMAN-ISM, n.

An idiom of the German language. Chesterfield,

GERM'EN, n. plur.

Germens. Now contracted to germ, which see.

GERMI'IN-AL, a. [from germen; See Germ.]

Pertaining to a germ or seed-bud. Med. Repos.

GERMI'IN-ATE, v.t.

To cause to sprout [Unusual.] Pr 4

GERM'IN-ANT, a.

Sprouting.

GERM'IN-ATE, v.i. [L; germino, from germen.]

To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed. Bacon.

GERM'IN-A-TING, ppr.

Sprouting; beginning to vegetate.

GERM-IN-A'TION, n.

1. The act of sprouting; the first beginning of vegetation in a seed or plant.
2. The time in which seeds vegetate, after being planted or sown. Mange.

GE-RO-COM'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to gerocomy. [Little used]. Smith.

GE-ROC'O-MY, n. [Gr. {foreign} and {foreign}.]

That part of medicine which treats of the proper regimen fat old people.