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es, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.

Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. Brande & C.

An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills. Ray.

rdial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. -- Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong…

An ornamental branched candlestick.

ideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ.

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.

A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea. Hoblyn.

Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.

tes, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [Written also Gnathostomata.]

use thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff. Brande & C.

ccupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. -- Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. -- Gold beetle (Zoöl.), any small gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ; -- called also golden beetle.…

Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinæ, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

Any slender branched gorgonian.

he principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c

the gospel at the altar during the communion service. The Archbishop of York was the celebrant, the epistoler being the dean, and the gospeler the Bishop of Sydney. Pall Mall Gazette.

A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

n which the scion is placed in a cleft or slit in the stock or stump made by sawing off a branch, usually in such a manaer that its bark evenly joins that of the stock. -- Crown, or Rind, grafting, a method of grafting which the alburnum and inner bark are separated, and between them is inserted the lower end of the s…

A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. [Obs.] G. Douglas.

zed by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a gruphic writer. Graphic algebra, a branch of algebra in which, the properties of equations are treated by the use of curves and straight lines. -- Graphic arts, a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation on a fiat surface of natural object…