gem

name

1. A diminutive of the female given name Gemma.

noun

Etymology: From Gem State.

1. A native or resident of the American state of Idaho.

verb

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.

1. To adorn with, or as if with, gems.

   “[T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.”

   “A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven[…].”