Crossword-Solution: GEEST 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

For example, the Germans call fermentation--and the old Germans did so--"gahren;" and they call anything which is used as a ferment by such names, such as "gheist" and "geest," and finally in low German, "yest"; and that word you know is the word our Saxon forefathers used, and is almost the same as the word which is commonly employed in this country to denote the common ferment of which I have been speaking.

Early in the spring he had laid siege to Oudenarde, a place of considerable importance upon the Scheld, and celebrated as the birthplace of his grandmother, Margaret van Geest.

Van Helmont indeed, a sort of modern Paracelsus, is said to have _invented_ the word 'gas'; but it is difficult to think that there was not a feeling here after 'geest' or 'geist,' whether he was conscious of this or not.] and have their point of contact with it and departure from it, not always discoverable, as we see, but yet always existing.

Fierens's shop, as we know from other sources, was at the sign of the Globe in Gistraat or Giststraat (_i.e._, Heilige Geest Straat, Holy Ghost Street).] [Footnote 165: In 1673, after the Duke of York and the English had held New York nine years, two Dutch commodores, Cornelis Evertsen and Jacob Binckes, retook it for the States General.

Schmitz Illustrated by Hortens [Illustration] Uncle William Boles' war-battered old Geest gun gave the impression that at some stage of its construction it had been pulled out of shape and then hardened in that form.