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- George - n. - A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.
- George - n. - A kind of brown loaf.
- George noble - - A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.
- Cross - n. - An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.
- Geordie - n. - A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
- Harmonite - n. - One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.
- Syncretist - n. - an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.
- George - n. - A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.
- Quaker - n. - One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.