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Gastric Juice
Aiton's Encyclopedia: one of the digestive fluids. It is a clear, colorless liquid, with a salty taste and an acid reaction. The gastric juice is manufactured in gastric cells or glands, situated in the inner lining of the stomach and opening into its cavity. The amount secreted is large, equaling in weight about one-eleventh of the human body. Only a small portion is in the stomach at any one time. The chief ingredients are three--hydrochloric acid, rennin, and pepsin. The first element preserves food from decay, dissolves nitrogenous food, and softens tissues. Rennin curdles milk. Pepsin produces a change in nitrogenous foods that prepares them for absorption. Oils and fats are not digested by the gastric juice. The mixture of gastric juice and food produces a grayish liquid known as chyme.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a colorless liquid secreted by the stomach containing about 98.5 percent. of water; when evaporated to dryness and burnt, the ashes consist chiefly of sodium chloride. The gastric juice also contains a free acid, probably hydrochloric acid, and a peculiar substance called PEPSINE (q. v.), to which, and the presence of the free acid, the power of digesting food possessed by the gastric juice appears to be due.
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Gautama
Collier's New Encyclopedia: (gou'ta-ma), the family name of the founder of BUDDHISM (q. v.).
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Buddha
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Gazelle
Aiton's Encyclopedia: ga-zel', a small antelope found in the deserts of Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Persia, where it is seen in large herds. It is about two feet in height, and is the fleetest of all quadrupeds. The gazelle is noted for the exquisite beauty of its form. Its eyes are large, dark, and lustrous. Oriental women are supposed to be much pleased when told that they have the eyes of a gazelle. The given name, Dorcas, is the Grecian word for gazelle. Before the day of the rifle gazelles were hunted with the falcon and the greyhound. Flying at the gazelle's eyes the falcon was able to retard its movements until the greyhound could come up. Gazelles are tamed by the Syrians, but, like wild deer, they long for the free life of their relatives. There are in all over twenty species. See Antelope
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a kind of antelope, Gazella dorcas, formerly called Antilope dorcas. From the large bright eyes of the animal and its general gracefulness, it was sometimes used for a Greek female name, as in the case of Dorcas, who made garments for the poor (Acts ix: 36-end). The horns are rounded, thick, and black; the hair on the body light yellow on the back, while on the lower parts a broad exists along each flank, a bunch of hairs on each knee, and a deep pouch at each groin. It lives in north Africa.
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Gemini
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the third of the zodiacal constellations. The name is given from two conspicuous stars, Alpha and Beta Geminorum, the former named, after the example of the Greeks, Castor; the latter, Pollux. If an imaginary line be drawn through the belt of Orion and two bright stars in the line of the belt, it will nearly pass through Gemini. If again Regulus and Aldebaran be above the horizon, and the space between them be equally divided, the point of bisection will be in Gemini . Castor is a remarkable binary star of the first magnitude , Pollux is of the second. The sun enters the third sign of the zodiac which is different from the actual constellation about May 21, and passes from it to Cancer about June 21.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Castor And Pollux
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Genseric
Aiton's Encyclopedia: jen'ser-ik, a king of the Vandals in Spain. He died 477 A. D. In 429 he invaded Africa. In 439 he captured Carthage and made it the capital of a Vandal kingdom in Africa. In 455, in response to an appeal from a Roman faction, he invaded Italy. He gave Rome over to sack and pillage for fourteen days. He carried off numerous captives to Africa, including the empress Eudoxia and her daughters. He accepted the form of Christianity known as Arianism. It would now be called Unitarianism. He persecuted the Roman Catholics in his dominion, with a view to making Arianism the only faith. See Vandals
Collier's New Encyclopedia: or GEISERIC, a king of the Vandals. He passed from Spain to Carthage, and laid Africa, where he took , of the Vandal the foundation, in Africa composed of Numikingdom, which was , Corsica, Sardia, Mauritania, Carthage . In the dinia, and the Balearic Isles military expeditions he incourse of his vaded Italy, and sacked Rome in 455. He died in 477.
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Gessler
Collier's New Encyclopedia: ALBRECHT, or HERMAN (ges'ler), called also GESSLER VON BRU- NECK (in Swiss legendry), was in 1300 appointed joint-governor along with Berenger von Landenberg, of the Waldstädten or forest cantons (Schwytz, Unterwalden, and Uri), by Albrecht I. of Austria. According to the traditions connected with WILLIAM TELL ( q. v.) , his oppressive edicts and wanton cruelty so enraged the inhabitants that a conspiracy was formed against him , and he was shot by Tell in a narrow pass near Küssnacht in 1307.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Tell ; William
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Gethsemane
Aiton's Encyclopedia: an olive garden near the city of Jerusalem. It lies on the road to the Mount of Olives. It was here that Christ in agony of spirit prayed that, if it were his Father's will, the cup might pass from him; and here that Peter smote the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear. Tourists find the place surrounded by a wall, and well tended by the Franciscan Fathers. The latter cultivate many flowers and take pleasure in giving them to pilgrims who desire to carry away some precious memento of this sacred spot. There are still a few olive trees of great age, but it can hardly be claimed that they were growing when Christ and his disciples walked in the garden. The name is Hebrew, meaning "oil-press." See Jerusalem
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an olive garden or orchard near Jerusalem, memorable as the scene of the last sufferings of our Lord. The traditionary site of this garden places it on the E. side of the city and a very little beyond the Kedron, near the base of Mt. Olivet.
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