Gee
(Gee), v. t. [See Gee to turn.] To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver. [Written
also jee.]
Geer
(Geer Geer"ing). [Obs.] See Gear, Gearing.
Geese
(Geese) n., pl. of Goose.
Geest
(Geest) n. [Cf. LG. geest, geestland, sandy, dry and, OFries. gest, gast, gestlond, gastlond,
fr. Fries. gast barren. Cf. Geason.] Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin. R.
Jameson.
Geet
(Geet) n. [See Jet.] Jet. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Geez
(Geez) n. The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic.
Gehenna
(Ge*hen"na) n. [L. Gehenna, Gr. Ge`enna, Heb. Ge Hinnom.] (Jewish Hist.) The valley
of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on
this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse
of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament
the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence
And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
Milton. Geic
(Ge"ic) a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold.
Geic acid. (Chem.) See Humin.
Gein
(Ge"in) n. (Chem.) See Humin.
Geissler tube
(Geis"sler tube`) (Elec.) A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing
some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed
through it; — so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plücker tube, from
the German physicist who devised it.
