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Gems"bok (?), n. [D.; akin to G. gemsbock the male or buck of the chamois; gemse chamois, goat of the Alps + bock buck.] (Zoˆl.) A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.

Gems"-horn` (?), n. [G., prop., chamois horn.] (Mus.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes.

Ge*mul" (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns. [Written also guemul.]

-gen (?). [(1) From Gr. -gen-, from the same root as ge`nos race, stock (see Genus). (2) From Gr. suffix -genh`s born. Cf. F. -gËne.] 1. A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.

2. A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.

||Ge"na (?), [L., the cheek.] (Zoˆl.) (a) The cheek; the feathered side ||of the under mandible of a bird. (b) The part of the head to which ||the jaws of an insect are attached.

||Ge*nappe" (?), n. [From Genappe, in Belgium.] A worsted yarn or cord ||of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, ||etc. Simmonds.

||Gen`darme" (?), n.; pl. Gendarmes (#), or Gens d'armes. [F.] 1. ||(Mil.) One of a body of heavy cavalry. [Obs.] [France]

2. An armed policeman in France. Thackeray.

Gen*darm"er*y (?), n. [F. gendarmerie.] The body of gendarmes.

Gen"der (jn"dr), n. [OF. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), F. genre, fr. L. genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin. See Kin, and cf. Generate, Genre, Gentle, Genus.]

1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs." Shak.

2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.]

3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects.

R. Morris.

Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer.

Gen"der (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gendered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gendering.] [OF. gendrer, fr. L. generare. See Gender, n.] To beget; to engender.

Gen"der, v. i. To copulate; to breed. [R.] Shak.

Gen"der*less, a. Having no gender.

Gen`e*a*gen"e*sis (?), n. [Gr. &?; race + E. genesis.] (Biol.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.

Gen`e*a*log"ic (?), a. Genealogical.

Gen`e*a*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. gÈnÈalogique.] Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order. -- Gen`e*a*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Genealogical tree, a family lineage or genealogy drawn out under the form of a tree and its branches.

Gen`e*al"o*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. gÈnÈalogiste.] One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

Gen`e*al"o*gize (?), v. i. To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.

Gen`e*al"o*gy (?), n.; pl. Genealogies (#). [OE. genealogi, genelogie, OF. genelogie, F. gÈnÈalogie, L. genealogia, fr. Gr. &?;; &?; birth, race, descent (akin to L. genus) + &?; discourse.]

1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.