Gmund
a city of Württemberg, Gercity in the thirteenth century and restruments. It became an Imperial free It was famous prior to the World War about 21,000. also the site of important industries in iron and bronze, notably scientific intained its independence until 1903. Pop. gray. sects represented by numerous widely gnat (Culex pipiens) may be taken as typical. The color of the middle portion about 21,000. lowish-brown, marked with darker longitudinal lines; the posterior part is light distributed species, and especially abundant in marshy districts. There are nine and bear circlets of hair, which, in the British species, of which the common a feathery appearance. furnished with mandibles which are abof the body on the upper surface is yelof the body on the upper surface is yel- typical. The color of the middle portion days in dancing in the sunlight; the fe- The antennæ consist of 14 joints, suit of men and cattle from whom she male, may be so long and thick as to give nectar from the flowers and passes his The female is male spends her days and nights in purdelicate, diet. days in dancing in the sunlight; the feis an extremely complex structure composed of representatives of the three usual mouth appendages.
To strain at (an the gnat and swallow the camel. (Re- 24, Authorized Version). To strain out sects out of the liquor they were about usual mouth appendages. and careless in matters of importance. with which the Jews strained small ina gnat and swallow a camel (Matt. xxiii: vised Version): posed of representatives of the three is an extremely complex structure com- double function of piercing and sucking delicate, diet. The proboscis, whose may suck her more nutritious, if less suit of men and cattle from whom she male spends her days and nights in pur- The proboscis, whose (an old misprint for out) the gnat and swallow the camel. (Re- 24, Authorized Version). To strain out a gnat and swallow a camel (Matt. xxiii: To strain at (an old misprint for out) conchiferous m teeth connected with the hinge has a cer- In zoölogy and paleontology, a genus of species, one certain and three doubtful; GNATHODON (nath'ō-don), a genus best-known recent species is G. cuneatus, which was formerly eaten by the Indians It is so called because one of the lateral It is found with Cyrena caroline mollusks, family Mactridæ. tain resemblance to a jawbone. Recent fossil three, from the Chalk onward. The GNEISENAU Mobile, on the Gulf of Mexico, which is built on a shell bank consisting chiefly of the two species.
GNEISENAU (gnī'ze-nou), AUGUST WILHELM ANTON, GRAF NEIT- HARDT VON, a Prussian general; born in Schildau, Prussian Saxony, Oct. 27, 1760. In 1782 he accompanied the German auxiliaries of England to the man American colonies. On his return he joined (1786) the Prussian army, and 20 years later fought at Saalfeld and in the battle of Jena. He gave convincing proof of his military genius in the defense of Colberg from April to July, 1807; and this led to his appointment on the commission for the reorganization of the Prussian army. In the war of liberation he rendered distinguished service at the battle of Leipsic (1813). But his most meritorious work was his share in the Waterloo campaign, in which he was chief of Blücher's staff, and principally directed the strategy of the Prussian army. He had been 15 years on the retired list when, in 1831, on the outbreak of the Polish rebellion, he was made field-marshal and given command of the Prussian army on the Polish frontier.
He died in Posen, Aug. 24, 1831.
GNEISS (nīs), a metamorphic rock, consisting of orthoclase, quartz, and mica. It is akin to mica schist, which, however, is distinguished by having less orthoclase and more mica. It has exactly the same materials as granite, but is stratified or foliated. Sometimes hand specimens are found, in which lamination is so little traceable that they might pass for granite. Fundamental gneiss, Laurentian gneiss, the name given by Sir Roderick Murchison to the oldest stratified rock in Scotland. It is found in the N. W. of Ross-shire and in Sutherlandshire, besides forming the whole of the adjoining island of Lewis in the Hebrides. It has a strike from N. W. to S. E., nearly at right angles to the metamorphic strata of the Grampians. The Lower Cambrian and various metamorphic rocks rest on it unconformably.