Gmund

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a city of Württemberg, Germany, situated in the valley of the Rems, 32 miles S. E. of Stuttgart. It was famous prior to the World War for its manufacture of jewelry elry and armetals, and was ticles of the precious me also the site of important industries in iron and bronze, notably scientific instruments. It became an Imperial free city in the thirteenth century and retained its independence until 1903. Pop. about 21,000. GNAT (nat) a genus of dipterous insects represented by numerous widely distributed species, and especially abundant in marshy districts. There are nine British species, of which the common gnat (Culex pipiens) may be taken as typical. The color of the middle portion of the body on the upper surface is yellowish-brown, marked with darker longitudinal lines; the posterior part is light The antennæ consist of 14 joints, gray. and bear circlets of hair, which, in the male, may be so long and thick as to give a feathery appearance. The female is furnished with mandibles which are absent in the male. The male gnat sips nectar from the flowers and passes his days in dancing in the sunlight; the female spends her days and nights in pursuit of men and cattle from whom she may suck her more nutritious, if less The proboscis, whose delicate, diet. double function of piercing and sucking is an extremely complex structure composed of representatives of the three usual mouth appendages. (an old misprint for out) To strain at (an a gnat and swallow a camel (Matt. xxiii: 24, Authorized Version). To strain out the gnat and swallow the camel. (Re- Alluding to the care with which the Jews strained small invised Version): sects out of the liquor they were about to drink. To be punctilious about trifles and careless in matters of importance.