Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GE-OS'CO-PY, n. [Gr. γη and σκοπεω.]

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

GE-OT'IC, a. [Gr. γη, earth.]

Belonging to earth; terrestrial.

GE-RA'NI-UM, n. [L. from Gr. γερανιον, from γερανος, a crane.]

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

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

Bearing; used in Vicegerent.

GER-FAL'CON, n. [See GYRFALCON.]

GERM, n. [L. germen.]

1. In botany, the ovary or seed-bud of a plant, the rudiment of fruit yet in 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. [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, a.

Belonging to Germany.

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-MAN'IC, a.

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

GER'MAN-ISM, n.

An idiom of the German language. Chesterfield.

GERM'EN, n. [plur. Germens.]

Now contracted to germ, which see.

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

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

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-ATE, v.t.

To cause to sprout. [Unusual.] Price.

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. Martyn.

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

Pertaining to gerocomy. [Little used]. Smith.

GE-ROC'O-MY, n. [Gr. γερων and κομεω.]

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

GER'UND, n. [L. gerundium, from gero, to bear.]

In the Latin grammar, a kind of verbal noun, partaking of the nature of a participle. Encyc.

GES-LING, n. [for Gosling. Not in use.]

GEST, n. [L. gestum, from gero, to carry, to do.]

1. A deed, action or achievement. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Show; representation. [Obs.]
3. [Fr. gîte, for giste, from gesir, to lie.] A stage in traveling; so much of a journey as is made without resting; or properly, a rest; a stop. [Obs.] Brown.
4. A roll or journal of the several days and stages prefixed, in the journeys of the English kings, many of which are extant in the herald's office. Hanmer.

GES-TA'TION, n. [L. gestatio, from gero, to carry.]

1. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. Ray. Cox.
2. The act of wearing, as clothes or ornaments. Brown.
3. The act of carrying sick persons in carriages, as a salutary exercise, by which diseases have often been cured. Med. Repos.