German ist (jermanist)

[ the one hand and silicon and zinc on the other. Germanium is also said to be present in the mineral euxenite. Germanization (jer man-i-zā shon), n. [ That the Turk has got to go is now hardly open to doubt, and in as far as British statesmanship can promote the dated to the Ru ification of Turkey in Europe, our policy should be directed to that end. Nineteenth Century, XXI. 556. Germanize (jėr'man-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. Ger manized, ppr. Germanizing. [= F. german i ser; as German + ize.] 1. To render German in character or sentiment; cause to conform to German ideals or methods. When the Empre Anne intrusted the whole administration of the country to her favorite Biron, the German influence became almost exclusive, and the court, the official world, and the school were Germanized. D. M. Wallace, Ru ia, p. 387. Many Germans, the Swi so far as they are Germanized, the Slavonians, the Fins, and the Turks, are short-headed. Huxley, Critiques and Addre es, p. 151. 2. To translate into German. The Dutch hath him who Germaniz'd the story Of Sleidan. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Babylon. germ-area (jėrm'ārē-a), n . That part of a germinating ovum of some animals where a ma of endoderm-cells are heaped up on the inner surface of a hollow sphere of ectoderm-cells, and which is specially the seat of further germinative proce es. See germ - disk . germarium (jer-ma'ri-um), n.; pl. germaria (-a). [NL., IMG:content-2247.png:[graphic] or ovary of some of the lower animals, as the rhabdocœlous turbellarians and trematoid worms, which evolves the ova, as distinguished from the vitellarium. There is a single or double germarium , having nearly the sam structure as the ovary of Macros to mum, and the ova are formed in it in the same way. Huxley , Anat. Invert., [p. 160. germ-cell (jėrm's el), n. 1. A germ when it is a cell, or has the morphological ferens: common vitellarian duct; value of a cell; an i, k, oviduct: 1, portion of uterus; m , testis. (Highly magnified.) impregnated ovum about to germinate, but not yet become more than a single cell; a cytula.-2. One of the Reproductive Organs of a Trematoid Worm ( Asp i do gaster conch i cola. d, germarium; e, internal vas de IMG:content-2248.png:[blocks in formation] Thou, all-shaking thunder, Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ungrateful man. Shak., Lear, iii. 2. The germen in the seed of a plant. Boyle , Works, VI. 794. 21. A shoot or sprout. See the extract. The tenant for life can cut all that is not timber, with certain exceptions. He cannot cut ornamental trees, and he cannot destroy " germins," as the old law calls them, or stools underwood; and he cannot destroy trees planted for the protection of banks and various exсерtions of that kind. L. A. Goodeve, Modern Law of Real Property, p. 49. 3. The ovary. Compare germarium . germ-form (jerm'fôrm), n. The form of a germ with reference to its morphological value. Thus, at any period of its germination development, the cytula, the morula, the blastula, and the gastrula are succe ive germ - forms in the history of most germs. This highly important and interesting germ-form is called the germ-cup, or the gastrula. Haeckel , Evol. of Man (trans.), I. 192. germ-gland (jėrm'gland), n. A gland that produces germs; an ovary or spermary; an ovarium or testis; especially, a primitive indifferent gland which is subsequently differentiated into the e ential glandular organ of either sex. In Gordius the excretory ducts of the paired germ -glands are in both sexes united with the hind-gut. Gegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 185. germ-history (jėrm'histō-ri), n. The embryogeny of any given organism; ontogeny: distinguished from tribal history or phylogeny . germicidal (jer'mi-si-dal), a . [ germicide + -al.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a germicide; germ-killing: as, germicidal gases. Some [organisms], on the other hand, are either in themselves innocuous or are killed when they enter the blood, which is a fluid ti ue and acts as a germicide; hence the ti ues in a healthy condition are spoken of as germicidal . Encyc . Brit ., XXII. 680.