gerbefuse (jerbfuz)

In pyrotechny, a kind of fuse used for connecting the parts of a set gerefa (AS. pron. ge-ra rā'fa), fä), n. [AS. gerēfa: see reevel, sheriff. ] In Anglo - Saxon hist., an officer corresponding to the steward or seneschal of Norman times; a reeve. The principal cla es were the scirgerefa or sheriff, the hundred - gerēja or bailiff, and the tun - gerefa, or reeve of the township. In the courts of the hundred and the shire... the ge ref a and four best men appeared for the township. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 43. [L., neut. pl. of gecarry, carry on, per gerenda (jē-ren'da), n. pl. rend us, gerundive of gerere, form.] Things to be done or conducted; agenda. gerent (je'rent), a. and n. [ II. n. A ruling power or agency; a doer or performer. [Rare.] And so sympathy pairs with self-a ertion, the two ge rents of human life on earth. R. L. Stevens on, Walt Whitman.