gneissose (nisos)

[ Granite, but with gnei ose aspect. Nature, XXX. 46. Gnetaceæ (nētā sē-ē), n . pl . [NL., Gnetum , Ephedra , and Welwitschia . Chaucer , Monk's Tale, 1. 458. gnetaceous (ne-ta shius), a. [ The Volsces have much corn; take these rats thither, To gnaw their garners. Shak., Cor., i. 1. They were to eat their bread, not gnawing it after the manner of rustics, but curia liter, like gentlemen, after a courtly fashion. Contemporary Rev., LIII. 60. In the Gnetaceous Ephedra alti ima, a proce of cell formation goes on in the oospore. Encyc. Brit., XX. 429. 2. To bite upon, as in close thought, vexation, altered from Gnemon (Rumphius, 1741),