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Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany. -- n.

ely contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open. Close borough. See under Borough. -- Close breeding. See under Breeding. -- Close communion, communion in the Lord's supper, restricted to those who have received baptism by immersion. -- Close corpo…

The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.

two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required.

ng Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pr…

The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ. [Obs.]

ot provincial; liberal. In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. [Germany]

The exact opposite. The German prose offers the counterpole to the French style. De Quincey.

rting the act of creation. "Creative talent." W. Irving. The creative force exists in the germ. Whewell.

A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.

A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp.

presents that whole which we call its culture. Tylor. Culture fluid, a fluid in which the germs of microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence.

otozoa inwhich they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.

The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.

A native of Damaraland, German Southwest Africa. The Damaras include an important and warlike Bantu tribe, and the Hill Damaras, who are Hottentots and mixed breeds hostile to the Bantus.

ng to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.