gemmule

[Fr. from Lat. gemmula, dim in. of gemma a gem, a bud.] 1. Botany : (1) The plumule of the embryo in a seed. (2) The terminal bud of the plumule. (3) An ovule. (4) The bud of a mo . (5) One of the reproductive spores of an alga i. 2. Zoology : (1) An embryo of a radiated animal at the stage when it resembles a ciliated monad. (2) An encysted ma of sponge-particles, from which new ones are produced. ( Huxley .) gem-mu-lif-er-ous, a. [Lat.gemmula=a little gem or bud; fero =to bear, and Eng. adj. suff.- ous.] Bearing gemmules. ģěm-mỹ, a. [Eng.gem; -v.] 1. Full of gems; set with gems; bright, glittering; "Famed Oberon with damasked robe so gay, Philips: Past, 6. And gemmy crown." 2. Containing gems. "Not venal, you request no eastern stores, Where ruddy waters lave the gemmy shores." Grainger: Tibullus ; Elegy ii., bk. ii. 3. Spruce, smart, neat. IMG:content-0393.png:[blocks in formation] duced here by Father Smith, who placed one in the choir organ at the Temple. It pa ed out of sight for many years, but was reintroduced by the late Mr. William Hill. ( E.J. Hopkins , in Grove's ( Eng .) Dict . of Music .) -ġen, suff . [Gr. gennaō to produce.] Chem.: A suffix, as in hydrogen. ģěn, s. [Pers.] Bot ., Pharm ., & c .: Persian manna. [MANNA.] ģē-nạ, s . [Lat. gena =the cheek; Gr. genus =the under jaw: Sans. hanu =the jaw.] †1. Anat .: The upper part of the face, between the nose and ears. 2. Zool.: A sub-genus of Gasteropod a. genus Stoma tell a. Found in the seas of Southern Asia, . ġě-năppe, s. [From the place of its manufacture.] Fabric : A worsted yarn, whose smoothne enables it to be conveniently combined with silk, and so well adapted for braids, fringes, . gendarme (as zhai-darm), s. [Fr.] 1. Lit .: One of the armed police of France. They are divided into horse and foot gendarmes. They are all picked men, and are usually selected from the military forces for their courage and good character. They are divided into brigades, and a number of brigades form a departmental company. "When the Peers withdrew, it seems the proofs about his design of raising the North, or the city, or of the kill. ing the gendarmes , did not satisfy them."-Burnet. Hist. of the Reformation (an. 1551). The gens- d'armes were originally the king's horse-guards only, but afterward the king's gardes du-corps; the musketeers and light-horse were reckoned among them. There was also a company of gentlemen (in number about 250) bearing this IMG:content-0394.png:[blocks in formation] marine; gó, pot, IMG:content-0395.png:[blocks in formation] 2. According to the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; as, a genealogical order. "The golden fruit of true patriotism, real personal C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language : 1. The whole; that which comprehends or includes [Fr. genre, from Lat. genere, ablat. sing. of genus a kind, a kin; Ital. genere kind; Sp. & Port. genero.] IMG:content-0396.png:[blocks in formation] 4. In the same sense as II. II. Gram.: One of those cla es or categories into which words are divided according to the sex, natural or figurative, of the objects which they represent; a cla of words distinguished by similarity of ending, such ending marking a distinction in sex, as seen in adjectives, nouns, participles, .; a grammatical category in which words of a similar ending are cla ed together. In English, words denoting males are said to be of the masculine gen der, those denoting females of the feminine gender, and those denoting things of no sex of the neuter gender. Grammatical gender is that which is marked by different terminations, as dominus (m.), domina (f.). Grammatical gender existed in AngloS axon, but went out of use gradually after the Norman Conquest. "Gender is a grammatical distinction, and applies to words only. Sex is a natural distinction, and applies to living objects." - Morris: Outlines of English Accidence, $66. Crabb thus discriminates between gender and sex: "Gender signifies properly a genus or kind; sex signifies the habit or nature. The gender is that distinction in words which marks the distinction of sex in things: there are, therefore, three genders , but only two seres . By the inflections of words is denoted whether things are of this or that sex , or of The genders, therefore, are divided in no sex. grammar into masculine, feminine, and neuter; and things are divided into male and female sex." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)