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- German - a. - Nearly related; closely akin.
- German - n. - A native or one of the people of Germany.
- German - n. - The German language.
- German - n. - A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.
- German - n. - A social party at which the german is danced.
- German - n. - Of or pertaining to Germany.
- Germander - n. - A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamaedrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs.
- Germane - a. - Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.
- Germanic - a. - Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.
- Germanic - n. - Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy.
- Germanic - n. - Teutonic.
- Germanism - n. - An idiom of the German language.
- Germanism - n. - A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism.
- Germanium - n. - A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.
- Germanization - n. - The act of Germanizing.
- Germanize - v. t. - To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
- Germanize - v. i. - To reason or write after the manner of the Germans.
- Germanized - imp. & p. p. - of Germanize
- Germanizing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Germanize
- Germans - pl. - of German
- Kummel - n. - A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds.
- Archchamberlain - n. - A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.
- Teuton - n. - One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a Latin race.
- Elector - n. - In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.
- Erlking - n. - A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children.
- Mediatize - v. t. - To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank.
- Dunker - n. - One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.
- Rubella - n. - An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.
- Odin - n. - The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes.
- Frow - n. - A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.
- Yager - n. - In the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army.
- Kindergarten - n. - A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.
- Electrum - n. - German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.
- Gloxinia - n. - American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.
- Spelt - n. - A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
- Amber room - - A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans.
- Frank - a. - A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.
- Moha - n. - A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.
- Stahlian - a. - Pertaining to, or taught by, Stahl, a German physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of phlogiston.
- Landgrave - n. - A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.
- Thaler - n. - A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.
- Bursch - n. - A youth; especially, a student in a german university.
- Argentan - n. - An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver.
- Graf - n. - A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.
- Saengerfest - n. - A festival of singers; a German singing festival.