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Palsgrave :: Palsgrave (n.) A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany..

Tellurism :: Tellurism (n.) An hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence..

Osnaburg :: Osnaburg (n.) A species of coarse linen, originally made in Osnaburg, Germany..

Electorate :: Electorate (n.) The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire..

Frow :: Frow (n.) A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman..

Dunker :: 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..

Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..

Indo-germanic :: Indo-Germanic (a.) Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan language..

Meckelian :: Meckelian (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist..

Edda :: Edda (n.) The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes..

Ghibelline :: Ghibelline (n.) One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses..

Spiranthy :: Spirant (n.) A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-208..

Mediatize :: 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..

Id :: Id (n.) A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus or Idus idus) of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany..

Lied :: Lied (n.) A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national..

Alman :: Alman (adj.) The German language.

Rudesheimer :: Rudesheimer (n.) A German wine made near Rudesheim, on the Rhine..

Kursaal :: Kursaal (n.) A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany..

Digitain :: Digitain (n.) Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the French extract, the German extract, etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties..

Theosophy :: Theosophy (n.) Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the

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