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

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

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.

s of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe.

om bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. -- German text (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words,

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.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a gerund; as, a gerundial use.

laying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.

Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. Shak.

at was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.

The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.

To have a misgiving. [Obs.] My mind gives ye're reserved To rob poor market women. J. Webster.

ain insects and mollusks. Gizzard shad (Zoöl.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. -- To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. -- To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]

Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; - - said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids. Glacial acid (Chem.), an acid of such strength or purity as to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike form; as acetic or carbolic acid. -- Glacial drift (Geol.), ear…

Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy. Sir T. Browne.

Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.

Any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.

An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.

Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.