a. [ L. gemma bud + -ferous: cf. F. gemmifère. ] Producing gems or buds; (Biol.) multiplying by buds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gemma bud + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy. ] (Biol.) The production of a bud or gem. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gemma bud + flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot.) Having flowers like buds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.

{ ‖Verbar; n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. gemma bud + parere to produce. ] (Zool.) Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. gemmipare. ] (Biol.) Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a stitch used in sewing hems on skirts and dresses. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Spruceness. [ Slang, Eng. ] Pegge (1814). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nor. lemming, lemende; cf. Sw. lemel, Lapp. lummik. ] (Zool.) Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common Northern European lemming (Myodes lemmus) is remarkable for making occasional devastating migrations in enormous numbers from the mountains into the lowlands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also pemican. ] 1. Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A treatise of much thought in little compass. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]