[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

german \ger"man\, a. l. germanus. see german, n.
   of or pertaining to germany.
   1913 webster

   german baptists. see dunker.

   german bit, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical
      pod and a scew point.

   german carp zool., the crucian carp.

   german millet bot., a kind of millet setaria italica,
      var., whose seed is sometimes used for food.

   german paste, a prepared food for caged birds.

   german process metal., the process of reducing copper ore
      in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary.
      --raymond.

   german sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract.
      

   german sausage, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly
      cooked.

   german silver chem., a silver-white alloy, hard and
      tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in
      the air. it contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying
      proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag
      at henneberg. a small amount of iron is sometimes added to
      make it whiter and harder. it is essentially identical
      with the chinese alloy packfong. it was formerly much
      used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings
      of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other
      white alloys.

   german steel metal., a metal made from bog iron ore in a
      forge, with charcoal for fuel.

   german text typog., a character resembling modern german
      type, used in english printing for ornamental headings,
      etc., as in the words,
      1913 webster

   note: this line is german text.

   german tinder. see amadou.
      1913 webster
see also:
german german baptists dunker german bit german carp german millet 
setaria italica german paste german process german sarsaparilla german sausage 
german silver packfong german steel german text german tinder 
amadou 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

german \ger"man\, a. oe. german, germain, f. germain, fr. l.
   germanus full, own said of brothers and sisters who have the
   same parents; akin to germen germ. cf. germ, germane.
   nearly related; closely akin.
   1913 webster

         wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion.
                                                  --shak.
   1913 webster

   brother german. see brother german.

   cousins german. see the note under cousin.
      1913 webster
see also:
germ germane brother german cousins german cousin 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

german \ger"man\, n.; pl. germansl. germanus, prob. of celtis
   origin.
   1. a native or one of the people of germany.
      1913 webster

   2. the german language.
      1913 webster

   3.
      a a round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding
          in capriciosly involved figures.
      b a social party at which the german is danced.
          1913 webster

   high german, the teutonic dialect of upper or southern
      germany, -- comprising old high german, used from the 8th
      to the 11th century; middle h. g., from the 12th to the
      15th century; and modern or new h. g., the language of
      luther's bible version and of modern german literature.
      the dialects of central germany, the basis of the modern
      literary language, are often called middle german, and the
      southern german dialects upper german; but high german is
      also used to cover both groups.

   low german, the language of northern germany and the
      netherlands, -- including friesic; anglo-saxon or
      saxon; old saxon; dutch or low dutch, with its
      dialect, flemish; and plattdeutsch called also low
      german, spoken in many dialects.
      1913 webster
see also:
germans high german low german friesic anglo-saxon saxon 
old saxon dutch low dutch flemish plattdeutsch 
low german 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

german
     adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of germany or its
            people or language; "german philosophers"; "german
            universities"; "german literature"
     2: of a more or less german nature; somewhat german; "germanic
        peoples"; "his germanic nature"; "formidable volumes
        teutonic in their thoroughness" syn: germanic, teutonic
     n 1: a person of german nationality
     2: the standard german language; developed historically from
        west germanic syn: high german, german language
see also:
germanic teutonic high german german language 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

german
     
         \jr'mn\ a human language written in latin
        alphabet and spoken in germany, austria and parts of
        switzerland.
     
        german writing normally uses four non-ascii characters:
        "aouß", the first three have "umlauts" two dots over the
        top: a o and u and the last is a double-s "scharfes s"
        which looks like the greek letter beta except in capitalised
        words where it should be written "ss".  these can be written
        in ascii in several ways, the most common are ae, oe ue ae oe
        ue ss or sz and the tex versions "a "o "u "a "o "u "s.
     
        see also abend, blinkenlights, dau, din, gedanken,
        gmd, kluge.
     
        usenet newsgroup: news:soc.culture.german.
        ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/soc.answers/german-faq,
        ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/pub/dictionaries/german.dat.z.
     
        1995-03-31
     
     
see also:
ascii tex abend blinkenlights dau din 
gedanken gmd kluge usenet lt;news:soc.culture.germangt; lt;ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/soc.answers/german-faqgt; lt;ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/pub/dictionaries/german.dat.zgt; 

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

german, relations, germanus. whole or entire, as respects genealogy or 
descent; thus, "brother-german," denotes one who is brother both by the 
father and mother's side cousins-germane" those in the first and nearest 
degree, i. e., children of brothers or sisters. tech. dict.; 4 m.  c. 56. 

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