German2 (jerman)

and n. [L. German us, a. and n., German, German i, n. pl., the Germans, German i a, Germany. The name is prob. of Celtic origin, and is said to mean 'shouters,' or, according to another explanation, 'neighbors.' The G. word for 'German' is Deutsch; 'a German,' ein Deutscher: see Dutch.] I. a. Of or pertaining to an important Teutonic race inhabiting central Europe, or to Germany, or to its inhabitants or their language. At the beginning of the Christian era the Germans occupied central Europe eastward to the Vistula, southward to the Car path i ans and Danube, and westward to beyond the Rhine. Among their chief tribes were the Suevi, Lombards, Vandals, Heruli, Chatti, Quadi, Ubii, and Cherusci. After the epoch of migrations in the third and fourth centuries, many tribes, as the Franks, Burgundians, Lombards, and Vandals, settled permanently in other regions, and became merged in the new French, Italian, and Spanish nations. In the East the Germans were displaced by Slavs, although important parts of this region have since been Germanized. Since about the twelfth century the Germans have called themselves die Deutschen. In medieval and modern times they have occupied a region which has had many political changes, but which has remained of substantially the same extent for centuries. The former Roman-German empire contained various lands not inhabited by Germans. At the present time the Germans form the great majority in the reconstituted German empire; they number over one fourth of the inhabitants of Austria-Hungary, chiefly in the western and northwestern parts; there are about 1,000,000 Germans in the Baltic provinces and elsewhere in Ru ia, and over two thirds of the Swi are of German race and language. Abbreviated Ger. or G.-German Baptists. See Dunker1. German bit, black, etc. See the nouns. - German carp, an English book-name for the Car a i as vulgar is, or gibelio. German Catholic, one of a religious party or body in Germany whose members seceded from the Roman Catholic Church in 1844 and succeeding years, and gradually adopted various ideas different from those of orthodox Christianity. Its progre was hindered by governmental interference and by internal disputes between the two chief leaders, Ronge and Czerski. After the reaction from the revolution of 1848 nearly all its members were gradu ally absorbed in other religious bodies. German duck. See duck2.-German empire. See Holy Roman Empire, under empire. - German flute. See flutel, 1 (c). - German fringe, gold, hone, millet, etc. See the nouns.German paste, a kind of paste composed of pea-meal, sweet almonds, lard, sugar, hay-saffron, and hard-boiled egg, used for feeding larks, thrushes, nightingales, and other singing birds. - German plate-gla . Same as broad gla (which see, under broad ). - German porcelain and pottery, porcelain and pottery produced in Germany. The best-known varieties of German porcelain are those of Mei en (generally called Dresden) and Berlin. Other celebrated factories are those of Anspach, Höchst, Frankenthal, Ludwigsburg, Nymphenburg, and Gro brei ten bach.-German sarsaparilla, silver, etc. See the nouns. German sixth, in music, a chord of the extreme sixth, containing the major third and perfect fifth of the ba , as shown in the figure. - German snipet, the dowitcher: so called in distinction from English snipe. Also called Dutch snipe. German stitch, a stitch used in worsted-work, in which alternately a tapes many and the Low Countries, among which the Nether landish or Dutch and the Plattdeutsch have literatures at the present time. In a restricted sense, the name is applied to the Low German as spoken in the northern parts of Germany. It is divided historically into three periods, Old Low German, Middle Low German, and Modern Low German, corresponding substantially to the periods of High German. The dialects of the Teutonic invaders of Britain were of the Old Low German cla . See Anglo Saxon, English, Friesic, Dutch, etc. 4. [l. c.] In dancing: (a) An elaborate form inate and the figures vary according to the in of the cotillion, in which round dances pre dom vent i on of the leader, and in which the changing of partners and giving of favors form a special feature. (b) An entertainment at which the german exclusively is danced. There was no german that morning, and the hotel band was going through its répertoire for the benefit of a champagne party on the lawn. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 232. 5. [l.c.] In coal- mining , a straw filled with gunpowder, used as a fuse in blasting. [Eng.] germander (jer-man'dėr), n . [ germawn der , german dree , F. germandrée = Pr. ger mandrea (ML. germandra , G. germander ) = Sp . = It. cal am andrea, cal a camedris, camedrio mandrina, germander; various corruptions of L. chamædrys, wall-germander, For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter; holly, ivy, bays,... germander , flag, orange-trees, lemon trees, and myrtles, if they be stoved. Bacon, Gardens (ed. 1887). Her clear germander eye Droopt in the giant-factoried city gloom. Tennyson, Sea Dreams. IMG:content-2246.png:[blocks in formation] Hence-2. Bearing a close relation; relevant; pertinent. It will give a kind of constituency thoroughly germane to the nature and purposes of a county representation, according to the old rule of the constitution. Gladstone. [History], a study of all others the most germane to the true and perpetual genius of Oxford. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 8. Germanic (jer-man'ik), a . and n. [= D. Germaansch = G. Germanisch = Dan. Sw. Germa nisk, Germansk = F. German i que = Sp. Pg. It. Germanico , Germanic us , German i , the Germans.] I. a. 1. Of or belonging to Germany or the Germans.-2. In a wider sense, of or belonging to the peoples of Germany and their kindred, or to their institutions; Teutonic. II. n. The language of the Teutonic or Germanic peoples. See Teutonic. German ism (jer'man-izm), n. [= D. G. Germa nismus Dan. German is me = Sw. German ism = F. German is me = It. Germanismo; as German + -ism.] 1. The quality of being German in feelings ings or or sentiment; sentiment; regard regard for for or love of German institutions, interests, and ideas. institutions . The German liberals. overflow with talk of German ism , German unity, the German nation, the German empire, the German army, and the German navy, the German church, and German science. H. Spencer , Study of Sociol., p. 215. Carlyle was profoundly imbued with German ism . N. A. Rev., CXXXIX. 165. 2. An imitation of German speech; an idiom or phrase copied from the German or resembling German in construction. It is full of Latin isms, Gallicisms, German isms , and all isms but Anglicisms. Chesterfield.