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GEXA, the cheek or region between the the Salisburia adiantifolia, called aUo th* 

 eye and the mouth. I Maidenhair tree, from its foliage resembling 



<;K.\KTiiMAr > from7ei/0Al7,"birth;" la form aud venation that of the Maiden - 

 birth or birthday poem in honour of an ha ir fern. 



individual. ' UlBOtntTTF, a term applied inFrauceto 



<n:.MouLossi, the pair of muscles by unprincipled and unstable political charac- 

 which the tongue is protruded. ters - II ** synonymous with Weathercock, 



<iK.sir.<, the genipap fruit of G. Ameri- an d an amusing Dictionnaire de Girouette* 

 cana, a ciuchonaceous plant. It is called was published at cue time in France, giving 

 the Marmalade Box in Surinam. the names of the more celebrated revolu- 



GKX.NE., au order of chivalry founded tionary characters with a number ot weather- 

 by Charles Martel in 726, after he had de- cocks against the names of each, correspond- 

 feated the Saracens at Tours. It was named ng to the number of their turn-coat, 

 in honour of St. Martin of Tours, from the manoeuvres in political affairs ; a work 

 Wood Martin, or Gennet, and was the first which has admitted of much enlargement 

 order ol chivalry founded in France- from time to time in that unfortunate aud 



GEXKI-: 1-1,1 IKK>, those pictures of fine country. 



ordinary and humble life which do not be- l^l.AfK DKMARIF.or GLAriESMARI.*:, 

 long to any of the specific departments of the large foliated varieties ot mica, 

 art They are not necessarily vulgar pic- fiUAOIAL J>iUFT, a phenomenon corn- 

 lures, thuug i some of the cleverest Duich mon oy er the face of northern Europe and 

 painters have occasionally made them so, America after the post-tertiary settlement of 

 and have even fully merited the name of those continents, consisting of drifted boul- 

 " dirt painters." But such subjects as ders aud rock fragments mixed with sand 

 Hogarth and Sir David Wilkie have most and day in curious heterogeneous heaps, of 

 meritoriously distinguished themselves by which gravel is an almost universal corn- 

 painting, come within the denomination of ponent. The phenomenon is partially attri- 

 *' Genre Pictures." buted to the action of Glaciers, but it if 



GEATJA.NACE..*:, the natural order of certain that the greater features of it are 

 plants of which Oenttana is the typical due to Icebergs. Various explanations have 

 genus. SeeG-iXTiA.N. been attempted by geologists with no very 



(.TEXTILE. Though this term became clear or exhaustive result in point of iutelli- 

 latterly a word of indiscriminate t-se, it was gibility. SeeDEi.uiM-:. 

 distinctively employed, both in the Old GLACIERES, the name given to Ice Caves, 

 Testament and by St. Paul in the New, to r caves full of ice, by geologists, and found 

 denote the descendants of Japheth, Genesis * n Alpine regions unconnected with any 

 X 5. ' glacial system ; they vary from 50 to 500 feet 



CTEOTHERMOMKTER, a thermometrical in depth, and seem so far to form an excep- 

 instrument for ascertaining the Earth's sub- tion to the increasing temperature of the 

 terranean heat at various dejths. The tem- earth, as ascertained by the geothermometer 

 perature by means of it has been found to (l- ") elsewhere. 



increase about I 9 Fahr. for every 70 or 80 <iLAi>iL>, the internal horny plate of the 

 ft. of descent. calamaries. 



GERMEX, the ovary or ovarium. C.I. . \iuix, a nitrogenous substance found 



GERMINAL VESICLE, a nucleated cell in some sulphur springs. 



forming the first and essential portion of GLAXIJ.*, BCCCAI , the glands which 

 the ovum. secrete the saliva for lubricating the mouth. 



GESTURE LANGUAGE, a language much ^'-AN>, an inferior indehisceut fruit, 

 employed by savage tribes for facilitating in- represented by the acorn, 

 terchangeof meaning, often in cases where GLAUHKI.'S SAL AMMONIAC, the snl- 

 their spoken language is defective. It has phate of ammonia. 



been found by experiments made in Ger- GLAUHKUITE, native double sulphate of 

 many lately that it admits of extensive soda and lime. 



use, and has general intelligibility in mixed GLAUCOLJ.TE, a blue-green silicate of 

 audiences of different civilized nations. alumina, lime, and potassa, found in 



GUKA BKTTEK, orGALAM, the produce Siberia. 



of a West African palm ; consisting of a fat GLAUCOXITF, the " green earth " of the 

 similar in constituents to palm oil. It is ob- P* 611 ^ndstone and some trap rocks ; a 

 tained from the Bo*a Par/ta or Micadenia hydrated silicate of alumina aud iron with 

 and is a greyish white solid mass below 97 some alka lies. 



Fah. GLEXOID, 7 \rjvoe idris, a term applied 



GIMIERTINKP, a religious order of Eng- generally in anatomy to the socket-like sur- 

 land founded by Gilbert of Sempringham, faces for receiving the articulating extremi- 

 Lincolnshire, in the twelfth century. At ties of bones, such as the cavity of the 

 the dissolution it had about twenty-five, shoulder, in which the upper end of the 

 houses in England. humerus works, Ac. 



IEF, a deciduous tree of Japan, (TLOUI;MXJ , a term applied to varioa 

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