German Paste

A composition of pea-meal, boiled eggs, ., given as a food to singing birds. German Protestant, n. One of a body of German free-thinkers having no affiliation with the German churches. German Text. ( Printing .) Black letter similar to Old English and modern German type, much used for headings of legal documents, . Germanium. A chemical element discovered in 1886 in a mineral named argyrodite, occurring near Freiburg, Germany. It has since been found in the mineral euxenite, and has an atomic weight of 72-3; symbol, Ge. Sixteen years before its discovery the existence of such an element was predicted by Men dele jeff, as needed to fill a blank in the lists of his Periodic Law. Its discovery, with the predicted characteristics, has gone far to confirm that law. G. is of the same family as carbon and silicon, its compounds resembling those formed by these elements. German town, in Illinois , a village of Vermilion co. Pop . (1890) 1,178. The post-office to DANVILLE. Germ'icide, n. An agent capable of killing germs; particularly one used in destroying the bacteria that cause infectious diseases.