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A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

he initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

a circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

rtal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.

A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.

To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton. The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. J. Peile.

A triple alliance; specif., the alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, formed in 1882.

led, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities. [Written also droitzschka, and droschke.]

the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.

A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.

scount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.

Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.

The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.

A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.

The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekkabor.

In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.

The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.

The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire. Burke.

German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.