The European pike.

To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.

A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake.

pl. of Goose.

Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.

Jet.

The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic.

A queer old fellow; an old chap; sometimes, an old woman.

A faint patch of light in the night sky that appears opposite the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space.

The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.

Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold.

See Humin.

A Japanese singing and dancing girl, trained to provide entertainment and company for a man or group of men.

Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.

Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.

A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.

Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.

The formation of gelatin.

Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.

To be converted into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly.

The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.

Same as Gelatin.

Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order.

Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.

Having the form of gelatin.

Same as Gelatination.

Same as Gelatinate, v. i.

Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.

The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

To castrate; to emasculate.

Liable to taxation.

One who gelds or castrates.

Same as Guelder-rose.

from Geld, v. t.

The type genus of the Gelechiidae, including pink bollworms.

a small slender-winged moth whose larvae are agricultural pests.

A family of moths which include important economic pests, feeding on the seeds of the cotton boll.

Cold; very cold; frozen.

The state of being gelid.

In a gelid manner; coldly.

The state of being gelid; gelidity.

Jelly.

Divination by means of laughter.

An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.

Gelseminic.

An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin.

A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.

Gilding; tinsel.

To put forth in the form of buds.

The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).

Pertaining to the Gemara.

One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.

One of the twins.

Producing twins.

A pair.

To double.

A doubling; duplication; repetition.

A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.

Having the flowers arranged in pairs.

Twins; a pair; a couple.

A division of birds including the true pigeons.

A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.

Of or pertaining to gems or to gemm/; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemm/.

A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively.

Having buds; reproducing by buds.

Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.

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

Producing gems or buds multiplying by buds.

The production of a bud or gem.

Having flowers like buds.

The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.

Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.

Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.

Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.

The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel.

See Gemmation.

A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons. One of the buds of mosses. One of the reproductive spores of alg/. An ovule.

Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.

A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.

The chamois.

An organ stop with conical tin pipes.

A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.

A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns.

A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.

One of a body of heavy cavalry.

The French police force; the body of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively.

Same as gendarmerie.

To copulate; to breed.

Having no gender.

Alternate generation. See under Generation.

Genealogical.

Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order.

One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.

The chief of a family or tribe.

See Genus.

Capability of being generated.

Capable of being generated or produced.

Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

a doctrine and philosophical approach to language and its relationship to thought and behavior, developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), which holds that the capacity to express ideas and thereby improve one's interaction with others and one's environment is enhanced by training in the more critical use of words and other symbols; -- sometimes also called semantics.

Generalities; general terms.

same as generalize.

The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.

Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.

To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.

Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.

One who takes general or comprehensive views.

In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.

The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.

The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.

Generality.

That which generates.

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.

One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.

A medication sold under its generic name; -- usually legal only after the patent has expired, or if no patent was issued for the substance. Generic drugs are usually less expensive than proprietary medications.

The name for a medication, as used in the pharmacopoeia; it cannot be a trademark. The name is typically given by the inventor or discoverer of the drug, but must be approved by a national or international naming authority.

With regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied.