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rden, to accustom. "Fleshed in triumphs." Glanvill. Old soldiers Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France. Beau. & Fl.

supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.

Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.

eless matter of a cell, that which is physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly germinal or living matter.

A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.

In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam.

In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title, equivalent to Miss.

ar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.

In Germany and Austria, a baron.

Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman. Beau. & Fl.

An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San José scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor.

A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and…

electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plücker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.

One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.

erbaceous plants with very handsome bell- shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.

like in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. Wiedersheim.

A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.

m (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]

A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.