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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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462 words match “GERM”

BLASTOCYST n.
The germinal vesicle.
BLASTODERM n.
The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
BLOCKHOUSE n.
e defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.
BOOR n.
A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
BOULANGISM n.
tified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist (#), n.
BULL n.
made by the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the fundamental law of the German empire; -- so called from its golden seal.
BUND n.
League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
BUNDESRATH n.
The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.
BURGOMASTER n.
A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.
BURSCH n.
A youth; especially, a student in a german university.
BURSCHENSCHAFT n.
In Germany, any of various associations of university students formed (the original one at Jena in 1815) to support liberal ideas, or the organization formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a soc…
BUTTON n.
A bud; a germ of a plant. Shak.
CAESAR n.
A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Cæsar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar. Malborough anticipated the day when he would be servilely flattered and courted by Cæsar on one side and by Louis the Great on the other. Macaulay.
CAHENSLYISM n.
A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the me…
CAROLIN n.
A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.
CASSEL BROWN; CASSEL EARTH n.
rmanence, consisting of impure lignite. It was found originally near Cassel (now Kassel), Germany.
CELLULAR a.
imal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other. -- Cellular tissue. (a) (Anat.) See conjunctive t…
CEREVIS n.
A small visorless cap, worn by members of German student corps. It is made in the corps colors, and usually bears the insignia of the corps.
CHOLERA n.
in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice- water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stag…
CICATRICLE n.
The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.
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