German silver

A white alloy for table ware, consisting of nickel, copper, and zinc in various proportions. German-text, s. A character closely resembling modern German type, and much used by lawyers for headings of legal documents. German-tinder, s. [AMADOU.] German-tutania, s . An alloy of one part of copper, forty-eight parts of tin, and four of antimony. German white-copper, s. An alloy of 88 parts of copper, 8'75 of nickel, with traces of silex, aluminum, antimony, and arsenic. ger-măn-der, *ger-maun-der, *ger-mawnder s. [Fr. germandrée ; Prov.germ andrea , a corfrom chamai =on the ground, and drys an oak, a tree; Ital, cal am andrea ; Ger.germander .] Bot.: The genus Teucrium (q. v.)