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A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon.

One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy.

A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.

Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.

Nearly related; closely akin. Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. Shak. Brother german. See Brother german. -- Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin.

A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamædrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. American germander, Teucrium Canadense. -- Germander chickweed, Veronica agrestis. -- Water germander, Teucrium Scordium. -- Wood germander, Teucrium Scorodonia.

kin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. [An amendment] must be germane. Barclay (Digest).

Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.

An idiom of the German language.

A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.

The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.

To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.

To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent. [Political Cant, U. S.]

A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

A husband; a master of a family. [Obs.]

to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. [Obs.] With you, goodman boy, an you please. Shak.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

See Gormand, n. [Obs.]

Gluttony.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.