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Graceful

GRA'CEFUL, adjective Beautiful with dignity; elegant; agreeable in appearance, with an expression of dignity or elevation of mind or manner; used particularly of motion, looks and speech; as a graceful walk; a graceful deportment; a graceful speaker; a graceful air.

High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus

rode.

Gracefully

GRA'CEFULLY, adverb With a pleasing dignity; elegantly; with a natural ease and propriety; as, to walk or speak gracefully

Gracefulness

GRA'CEFULNESS, noun Elegance of manner or deportment; beauty with dignity in manner, motion or countenance. gracefulness consists in the natural ease and propriety of an action, accompanied with a countenance expressive of dignity or elevation of mind. Happy is the man who can add the gracefulness of ease to the dignity of merit.

Graceless

GRA'CELESS, adjective Void of grace; corrupt; depraved; unregenerate; unsanctified.

Gracelessly

GRA'CELESSLY, adverb Without grace.

Graces

GRA'CES, noun Good graces favor; friendship.

Gracile

GRAC'ILE, adjective [Latin gracilis.] Slender. [Not in use.]

Gracility

GRACIL'ITY, noun Slenderness. [Not in use.]

Gracious

GRA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin gratiosus.]

1. Favorable; kind; friendly; as, the envoy met with a gracious reception.

2. Favorable; kind; benevolent; merciful; disposed to forgive offenses and impart unmerited blessings.

Thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious and

merciful. Nehemiah 9:17.

3. Favorable; expressing kindness and favor.

All bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth. Luke 4:22.

4. Proceeding from divine grace; as a person in a gracious state.

5. Acceptable; favored.

He made us gracious before the kings of Persia. [Little used.] 1 Esdras.

6. Renewed or implanted by grace; as gracious affections.

7. Virtuous; good.

8. Excellent; graceful; becoming.

Graciously

GRA'CIOUSLY, adverb Kindly; favorably; in a friendly manner; with kind condescension.

His testimony he graciously confirmed.

1. In a pleasing manner.

Graciousness

GRA'CIOUSNESS, noun Kind condescension.

1. Possession of graces or good qualities.

2. Pleasing manner.

3. Mercifulness.

CRACK'LE, noun [Latin graculus.]

A genus of birds, the Gracula, of which the crow-blackbird is a species.

Gradation

GRADA'TION, noun [Latin gradatio.]

1. A series of ascending steps or degrees, or a proceeding step by step; hence, progress from one degree or state to another; a regular advance from step to step. We observe a gradation in the progress of society from a rude to civilized life. Men may arrive by several gradations to the most horrid impiety.

2. A degree in any order or series; we observe a gradation in the scale of being, from brute to mane, from man to angels.

3. Order; series; regular process by degrees or steps; as a gradation in argument or description.

Gradatory

GRAD'ATORY, adjective Proceeding step by step.

GRAD'ATORY, noun Steps from the cloisters into the church.

Gradaul

GRAD'AUL, noun An order of steps.

1. A grail; an ancient book of hymns and prayers.

Grade

GRADE, noun [Latin gradus, a step. gradior, to step to go, rota. We observe further that the Latin gradior forms gressus, by a common change of d to s; Heb. to descend.]

1. A degree or rank in order or dignity, civil, military or ecclesiastical.

While questions, periods, and grades and privileges are never once formally discussed.

2. A step or degree in any ascending series; as crimes of every grade

When we come to examine the intermediate grades.

Gradient

GRA'DIENT, adjective [Latin gradiens, gradior.] Moving by steps; walking; as gradient automata.

Gradual

GRAD'UAL, adjective Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing step by step; passing from one step to another; regular and slow; as a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual increase of light in the morning is favorable to the eyes.

1. Proceeding by degrees in a descending line or progress; as a gradual decline.

Gradually

GRAD'UALLY, adverb By degrees; step by step; regularly; slowly. At evening the light vanishes gradually

1. In degree. [Not used.]

Human reason doth not only gradually but specifically differ from the fantastic reason of brutes.

Graduate

GRAD'UATE, verb transitive [Latin gradus, a degree.]

1. To honor with a degree or diploma, in a college or university; to confer a degree on; as, to graduate a master of arts.

2. To mark with degrees, regular intervals, or division; as, to graduate a thermometer.

3. To form shades or nice differences.

4. To raise to a higher place in the scale of metals.

5. To advance by degrees; to improve.

Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.

6. To temper; to prepare.

Diseases originating in the atmosphere act exclusively on bodies graduated to receive their impressions.

7. To mark degrees or differences of any kind; as, to graduate punishment.

8. In chimistry, to bring fluids to a certain degree of consistency.

GRAD'UATE, verb intransitive To receive a degree from a college or university.

1. To pass by degrees; to change gradually. Sandstone which graduates into gneiss, Carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

GRAD'UATE, noun One who has received a degree in a college or university, or from some professional incorporated society.

Graduated

GRAD'UATED, participle passive Honored with a degree or diploma from some learned society or college.

1. Marked with degrees or regular intervals; tempered.

Graduateship

GRAD'UATESHIP, noun The state of a graduate.

Graduating

GRAD'UATING, participle present tense Honoring with a degree; marking with degrees.

Graduation

GRADUA'TION, noun Regular progression by succession of degrees.

1. Improvement; exaltation of qualities.

2. The act of conferring or receiving academical degrees.

3. The act of marking with degrees.

4. The process of bringing a liquid to a certain consistence by evaporation.

Graduator

GRAD'UATOR, noun An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into equal parts.

Graff

GRAFF, noun [See Grave.] A ditch or moat.

GRAFF, for graft.

Graft

GR'AFT, noun [Latin scribo, the sense of which is to scrape or to dig.]

A small shoot or cion of a tree, inserted in another tree as the stock which is to support and nourish it. These unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

GR'AFT, verb transitive To insert a cion or shoot, or a small cutting of it, into another tree.

1. To propagate by insertion or inoculation.

2. To insert in a body to which it did not originally belong. Romans 11:17.

3. To impregnate with a foreign branch.

4. To join one thing to another so as to receive support from it.

And graft my love immortal on thy fame.

GR'AFT, verb intransitive To practice the insertion of foreign cions on a stock.

Grafted

GR'AFTED, participle passive Inserted on a foreign stock.

Grafter

GR'AFTER, noun One who inserts cions on foreign stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.

Grafting

GR'AFTING, participle present tense Inserting cions on different stocks.

Note. The true original orthography of this word is graff; but graft has superseded the original word, as it has in the compound ingraft.

Grail

GRAIL, noun [Latin graduale.] A book of offices in the Romish church.

GRAIL, noun Small particles of any kind.

Grain

GRAIN, noun [Latin granum.]

1. Any small hard mass; as a grain of sand or gravel. Hence,

2. A single seed or hard seed of a plant, particularly of those kinds whose seeds are used for food of man or beast. This is usually inclosed in a proper shell or covered with a husk, and contains the embryo of a new plant. Hence,

3. grain without a definitive, signifies corn in general, or the fruit of certain plants which constitutes the chief food of man and beast, as wheat, rye, barley, oats and maiz.

4. A minute particle.

5. A small weight, or the smallest weight ordinarily used, being the twentieth part of the scruple in apothecaries' weight, and the twenty fourth of a pennyweight troy.

6. A component part of stones and metals.

7. The veins or fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; whence, cross-grained, and against the grain

8. The body or substance of wood as modified by the fibers.

Hard box, and linden of a softer grain

9. The body or substance of a thing considered with respect to the size, form or direction of the constituent particles; as stones of a fine grain

The tooth of a sea-horse, contains a curdled grain

10. Any thing proverbially small; a very small particle or portion; as a grain of wit or of common sense.

Neglect not to make use of any grain of grace.

11. Dyed or stained substance.

All in a robe of darkest grain

12. The direction of the fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; hence the phrase, against the grain applied to animals, that is, against their natural tempers.

13. The heart or temper; as brothers not united in grain

14. The form of the surface of any thing with respect to smoothness or roughness; state of the grit of any body composed of grains; as sandstone of a fine grain

15. A tine, prong or spike.

A grain of allowance, a small allowance or indulgence; a small portion to be remitted; something above or below just weight.

To dye in grain is to dye in the raw material, as wool or silk before it is manufactured.

GRAIN, verb intransitive To yield fruit.

GRAIN, or GRANE, for groan. [Not in use.]

Grained

GRA'INED, adjective Rough; made less smooth.

1. Dyed in grain; ingrained.

Grainer

GRA'INER, noun A lixivium obtained by infusing pigeon's dung in water; used by tanners to give flexibility to skins.

Graining

GRA'INING, noun Indentation.

1. A fish of the dace kind.

Grains

GRAINS, noun [in the plural.] The husks or remains of malt after brewing, or of any grain after distillation.

GRAINS of paradise, an Indian spice, the seeds of a species of Amomum.

Grainstaff

GRA'INSTAFF, noun A quarter-staff.

Grainy

GRA'INY, adjective Full of grains or corn; full of kernels.

Graith

GRAITH, verb transitive To prepare. [See Greith and Ready.]

Grallic

GRAL'LIC, adjective [Latin gralloe, stilts, crutches.] Stilted; an epithet given to an order of fowls having long legs, naked above the knees, which fit them for wading in water.

Gram

GRAM, adjective Angry.

GRAM, noun [Gr. the twenty fourth part of an ounce.]

In the new system of French weights, the unity of weights. It is the weight of a quantity of distilled water equal to a cubic centimeter, or 18 grains French, or du poids de marc, equal to 15.444 grains troy.

Gramercy

GRAMERCY, for Fr. grand-merci, is not in use. It formerly was used to express obligation.

Gramineal

GRAMIN'EAL

GRAMIN'EOUS, adjective [Latin gramineus, from gramen, grass.]

Grassy; like or pertaining to grass. Gramineous plants are those which have simple leaves, a jointed stem, a husky calyx, termed glume, and a single seed. This description however includes several sorts of corn, as well as grass.

Gramineous

GRAMIN'EOUS, a. [L. gramineus, from gramen, grass.]

Grassy; like or pertaining to grass. Gramineous plants are those which have simple leaves, a jointed stem, a husky calyx, termed glume, and a single seed. This description however includes several sorts of corn, as well as grass.

Graminivorous

GRAMINIV'OROUS, adjective [Latin gramen, grass, and voro, to eat.]

Feeding or subsisting on grass. The ox and all the bovine genus of quadrupeds are graminivorous animals; so also the horse or equine genus.

Grammar

GRAM'MAR, noun [Latin grammatica; Gr. a letter, to write.]

1. In practice, the art of speaking or writing a language with propriety or correctness, according to established usage.

As a science, grammar treats of the natural connection between ideas and words, and develops the principles which are common to all languages.

2. A system of general principles and of particular rules for speaking or writing a language; or digested compilation of customary forms of speech in a nation; also, a book containing such principles and rules.

3. Propriety of speech. To write grammar we must write according to the practice of good writers and speakers.

GRAM'MAR, verb intransitive To discourse according to the rules of grammar

GRAM'MAR, adjective Belonging to or contained in grammar; as a grammar rule.

Grammar-School

GRAM'MAR-SCHOOL, noun A school in which the learned languages are taught. By learned languages, we usually mean the Latin and Greek; but others may be included.

Grammarian

GRAMMA'RIAN, noun One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.

1. One who teaches grammar.

Grammatical

GRAMMAT'ICAL, adjective Belonging to grammar; as a grammatical rule.

1. According to the rules of grammar. We say, a sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical

Grammatically

GRAMMAT'ICALLY, adverb According to the principles and rules of grammar; as, to write or speak grammatically

Grammaticaster

GRAMMAT'ICASTER, noun [Latin] A low grammarian; a pretender to a knowledge of grammar; a pedant.

Grammaticize

GRAMMAT'ICIZE, verb transitive To render grammatical.

Grammatist

GRAM'MATIST, noun A pretender to a knowledge of grammar.

Grammatite

GRAM'MATITE, noun [See Tremolite.]

Grample

GRAM'PLE, noun A crab-fish.

Grampus

GRAM'PUS, noun A fish of the cetaceous order, and genus Delphinus. This fish grows to the length of twenty five feet, and is remarkably thick in proportion to its length. The nose is flat and turns up at the end. It has 30 teeth in each jaw. The spout-hole is on the top of the neck. The color of the back is black; the belly is of a snowy whiteness; and on each shoulder is a large white spot. This fist is remarkably voracious.

Granade

GRANADE, GRANADO. [See Grenade.]

Granadilla

GRANADIL'LA, noun A plant; the fruit of the Passiflora quadrangulata.

Granado

GRANADE, GRANADO [See Grenade.]

Granary

GRAN'ARY, noun [Latin granarium, from granum, grain.]

A store house or repository of grain after it is thrashed; a corn-house.

Granate

GRAN'ATE, noun Usually written garnet, which see.

Granatite

GRAN'ATITE, noun [See Grenatite.]

Grancy

FRA'GRANCE, 'GRANCY, noun [Latin fragrantia, from fragro, to smell strong.]

Sweetness of smell; that quality of bodies which affects the olfactory nerves with an agreeable sensation; pleasing scent; grateful odor.

Eve separate he spies, vailed in a cloud of fragrance -

The goblet crown'd, breathed aromatic fragrances around.

Grand

GRAND, adjective [Latin grandis.]

1. Great; but mostly in a figurative sense; illustrious; high in power or dignity; as a grand lord.

2. Great; splendid; magnificent; as a grand design; a grand parade; a grand view or prospect.

3. Great; principal; chief; as Satan our grand foe.

4. Noble; sublime; lofty; conceived or expressed with great dignity; as a grand conception.

In general, we apply the epithet grand to that which is great and elevated, or which elevates and expands our ideas. The ocean, the sky, a lofty tower are grand objects. But to constitute a thing grand it seems necessary that it should be distinguished by some degree of beauty.

5. Old; more advanced; as in grandfather, grandmother, that is, old-father; and to correspond with this relation, we use grandson, granddaughter, grandchild.

Grandam

GRAN'DAM, noun [grand and dame.] Grandmother.

1. An old woman.

Grandchild

GRAND'CHILD, noun A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

Granddaughter

GRAND'DAUGHTER, noun The daughter of a son or daughter.

Grandee

GRANDEE', noun A nobleman; a man of elevated rank or station. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who has the king's leave to be covered in his presence.

Grandeeship

GRANDEE'SHIP, noun The rank or estate of a grandee.

Grandeur

GRAND'EUR, noun In a general sense, greatness; that quality or combination of qualities in an object, which elevates or expands the mind, and excites pleasurable emotions in him who views or contemplates it. Thus the extent and uniformity of surface in the ocean constitute grandeur; as do the extent, the elevation, and the concave appearance or vault of the sky. So we speak of the grandeur of a large and well proportioned edifice, of an extensive range of lofty mountains, of a large cataract, of a pyramid. etc.

1. Splendor of appearance; state; magnificence; as the grandeur of a court, of a procession. etc.

2. Elevation of thought, sentiment or expression. We speak of the grandeur of conceptions, and of style or diction.

3. Elevation of mien or air and deportment.

Grandevity

GRANDEV'ITY, noun Great age. [Not used.]

Grandevous

GRANDE'VOUS, adjective Of great age. [Not used.]

Grandfather

GRAND'F'ATHER, noun A father's or mother's father; the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

Grandiloquence

GRANDIL'OQUENCE, noun Lofty speaking; lofty expressions.

Grandiloquous

GRANDIL'OQUOUS, adjective [Latin grandiloquus; grandis and loquor, to speak.] Speaking in a lofty style.

Grandinous

GRAND'INOUS, adjective [Latin grando.] Consisting of hail.

Grandity

GRAND'ITY, noun Greatness; magnificence. [Not used.]

Grandjuror

GRANDJU'ROR, noun One of a grand jury. In Connecticut, a peace-officer.

GRAND JU'RY, noun [grand and jury.] A jury whose duty is to examine into the grounds of accusation against offenders, and if they see just cause, then to find bills of indictment against them to be presented to the court.

Grandly

GRAND'LY, adverb In a lofty manner; splendidly; sublimely.

Grandmother

GRAND'MOTHER, noun The mother of one's father or mother.

Grandness

GRAND'NESS, noun Grandeur; greatness with beauty; magnificence.

Grandsire

GRAND'SIRE, noun A grandfather.

1. In poetry and rhetoric, any ancestor.

Grandson

GRAND'SON, noun The son of a son or daughter.

Grange

GRANGE, noun granj. A farm, with the buildings, stables, etc.

Granilite

GRAN'ILITE, noun [See Granit.] Indeterminate granit; granit that contains more than three constituent parts.

Granit

GRAN'IT

GRAN'ITE, noun In mineralogy, an aggregate stone or rock, composed of crystalline grains of quartz, feldspar and mica, or at least of two of these minerals, united without a cement, or confusedly crystallized. The grains very in size from that of a pin's head, to a mass of two or three feet; but usually the largest size is that of a nut. The color of granit is greatly diversified by the different colors and proportions of the component parts, and in general these stones are very hard.

Granite

GRAN'ITE, n. In mineralogy, an aggregate stone or rock, composed of crystalline grains of quartz, feldspar and mica, or at least of two of these minerals, united without a cement, or confusedly crystallized. The grains very in size from that of a pin's head, to a mass of two or three feet; but usually the largest size is that of a nut. The color of granit is greatly diversified by the different colors and proportions of the component parts, and in general these stones are very hard.

Granitel

GRAN'ITEL, noun [dim. of granit.] A binary aggregate of minerals; a granitic compound containing two constituent parts, as quartz and feldspar, or quartz and shorl or hornblend.

Italian workmen give this name to a variety of gray granit consisting of small grains.

Granitic

GRANIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to granit; like granit; having the nature of granitic; as granitic texture.

1. Consisting of granit; as granitic mountains.

Granitic aggregates, in mineralogy, granular compounds of two or more simple minerals, in which only one of the essential ingredients of granit is present; as quartz and hornblend, feldspar and shorl, etc. Similar compounds occur, in which none of the ingredients of granit are present.

Granitin

GRAN'ITIN, noun A granitic aggregate of three species of minerals, some of which differ from the species which compose granit; as quartz, feldspar, and jade or shorl.

Granivorous

GRANIV'OROUS, adjective [Latin granum, grain, and voro, to eat.]

Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as granivorous birds.

Grannam, for grandam, a grandmother. [Vulgar.]

Grant

GR'ANT, verb transitive

1. To admit as true what is not proved; to allow; to yield; to concede. We take that for granted which is supposed to be true.

Grant that the fates have firmed, by their decree--

2. To give; to bestow or confer on without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request.

Thou hast granted me life and favor. Job 10:12.

God granted him that which he requested. 1. Chron.4.

3. To transfer the title of a thing to another, for a good or valuable consideration; to convey by deed or writing. The legislature have granted all the new land.

Grant me the place of this threshing floor. 1 Chronicles 21:22.

GR'ANT, noun The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring.

1. The thing granted or bestowed; a gift; a boon.

2. In law, a conveyance in writing, of such things as cannot pass or be transferred by word only, as land, rents, reversions, tithes, etc.

A grant is an executed contract.

3. Concession; admission of something as true.

4. The thing conveyed by deed or patent.

Grantable

GR'ANTABLE, adjective That may be granted or conveyed.

Granted

GR'ANTED, participle passive Admitted as true; conceded; yielded; bestowed; conveyed.

Grantee

GRANTEE', noun The person to whom a conveyance is made.

Granting

GR'ANTING, participle present tense Admitting; conceding; bestowing; conveying.

Grantor

GR'ANTOR, noun The person who grants; one who conveys lands, rents, etc.

Granular

GRAN'ULAR, adjective [from Latin granum, grain.]

1. Consisting of grains; as a granular substance.

2. Resembling grains; as a stone of granular appearance.

Granulate

GRAN'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin granum.]

1. To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder or sugar.

2. To raise into small asperities; to make rough on the surface.

GRAN'ULATE, verb intransitive To collect or be formed into grains; as cane-juice granulates into sugar; melted metals granulate when poured into water.

Granulated

GRAN'ULATED, participle passive Formed into grains.

1. Consisting of grains; resembling grains.

Granulating

GRAN'ULATING, participle present tense Forming into grains.

Granulation

GRANULA'TION, noun The act of forming into grains; as the granulation of powder and sugar. In chimistry, the granulation of metallic substances is performed by pouring the melted substances slowly into water, which is, at the same time, agitated with a broom.

Granule

GRAN'ULE, noun [Latin granum.] A little grain; a small particle.

Granulous

GRAN'ULOUS, adjective Full of grains; abounding with granular substances.

Grape

GRAPE, noun [This word is from the root of grab, gripe, and signifies primarily a cluster or bunch.]

1. Properly, a cluster of the fruit of the vine; but with us, a single berry of the vine; the fruit from which wine is made by expression and fermentation.

2. In the manege, grapes signifies mangy tumors on the legs of a horse.

Grape-Hyacinth

GRAPE-HYACINTH, noun A plant or flower, a species of Hyacinthus.

Grapeless

GRA'PELESS, adjective Wanting the strength and flavor of the grape.

Grapeshot

GRA'PESHOT, noun A cluster of small shot, confined in a canvas bag, forming a kind of cylinder, whose diameter is equal to that of the ball adapted to the cannon.

Grapestone

GRA'PESTONE, noun The stone or seed of the grape.

Graphic

GRAPH'IC

GRAPH'ICAL, adjective [Latin graphicus; Gr. to write.]

1. Pertaining to the art of writing or delineating.

2. Well delineated.

3. Describing with accuracy.

Graphical

GRAPH'ICAL, a. [L. graphicus; Gr. to write.] 1. Pertaining to the art of writing or delineating.2. Well delineated.3. Describing with accuracy.

Graphically

GRAPH'ICALLY, adverb With good delineation; in a picturesque manner.

Graphite

GRAPH'ITE, noun [Gr. to write.] Carburet of iron, a substance used for pencils, and very improperly called black-lead.

Grapholite

GRAPH'OLITE, noun [supra.] A species of slate proper for writing on.

Graphometer

GRAPHOM'ETER, noun [Gr. to describe, measure.] A mathematical instrument, called also a semicircle, whose use is to observe any angle whose vertex is at the center of the instrument in any plane, and to find how many degrees it contains.

Graphometrical

GRAPHOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to or ascertained by a graphometer.

Grapling

GRAP'LING, noun

1. A small anchor fitted with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels.

2. A grappling iron, used to seize and hold one ship to another in engagements. This is called a fire grapling

Grapnel

GRAP'NEL

GRAP'PLE, verb transitive

1. To seize; to lay fast hold on, either with the hands or with hooks. We say, a man grapples his antagonist, or a ship grapples another ship.

2. To fasten; to fix, as the mind or heart. [Not in use.]

GRAP'PLE, verb intransitive To seize; to contend in close fight, as wrestlers.

To grapple with, to contend with, to struggle with successfully.

GRAP'PLE, noun A seizing; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.

1. Close fight.

2. A hook or iron instrument by which one ship fastens on another.

Grapple

GRAP'PLE, v.t. 1. To seize; to lay fast hold on, either with the hands or with hooks. We say, a man grapples his antagonist, or a ship grapples another ship.2. To fasten; to fix, as the mind or heart. [Not in use.] GRAP'PLE, v.i. To seize; to contend in close fight, as wrestlers.

To grapple with, to contend with, to struggle with successfully.

GRAP'PLE, n. A seizing; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold. 1. Close fight.2. A hook or iron instrument by which one ship fastens on another.

Grapplement

GRAP'PLEMENT, noun A grappling; close fight or embrace.

Grapy

GRA'PY, adjective Like grapes; full of clusters of grapes.

1. Made of grapes.

Grasp

GR'ASP, verb transitive To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms. We say, to grasp with the hand, or with the arms.

1. To catch; to seize; to lay hold of; to take possession of. Kings often grasp more than they can hold.

GR'ASP, verb intransitive To catch or seize; to gripe.

1. To struggle; to strive. [Not in use.]

2. To encroach.

To grasp at, to catch at; to try to seize.

Alexander grasped at universal empire.

GR'ASP, noun The gripe or seizure of the hand. This seems to be its proper sense; but it denotes also a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.

1. Possession; hold.

2. Reach of the arms; and figuratively, the power of seizing. Bonaparte seemed to think he had the Russian empire within his grasp

Grasped

GR'ASPED, participle passive Seized with the hands or arms, embraced; held; possessed.

Grasper

GR'ASPER, noun One who grasps or seizes; one who catches at; one who holds.

Grasping

GR'ASPING, participle present tense Seizing; embracing; catching; holding.

Grass

GR'ASS, noun

1. In common usage, herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts.

2. In botany, a plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, a husky calyx, called glume, and the seed single. This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which are commonly called by the name of grass The grasses form a numerous family of plants.

Grass of Parnassus, a plant, the Parnassia.

GR'ASS, verb transitive To cover with grass or with turf.

GR'ASS, verb intransitive To breed grass; to be covered with grass

Grass-Green

GR'ASS-GREEN, adjective Green with grass.

1. Dark green, like the color of grass.

Grass-Grown

GR'ASS-GROWN, adjective Overgrown with grass.

Grassation

GRASSA'TION, noun [Latin grassatio.] A wandering about. [Little used.]

Grasshopper

GR'ASSHOPPER, noun [grass and hop.] An animal that lives among grass, a species of Gryllus.

Grassiness

GR'ASSINESS, noun [from grassy.] The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.

Grassless

GR'ASSLESS, adjective Destitute of grass.

Grassplot

GR'ASSPLOT, noun A plat or level spot covered with grass.

Grasspoly

GR'ASSPOLY, noun A plant, a species of Lythrum or willow-wort.

Grassvetch

GR'ASSVETCH, noun A plant of the genus Lathyrus.

Grasswrack

GR'ASSWRACK, noun A plant, the Zostera.

Grassy

GR'ASSY, adjective Covered with grass; abounding with grass.

1. Resembling grass; green.

Grate

GRATE, noun [Latin crates, a grate a hurdle.]

1. A work or frame, composed of parallel or cross bars, with interstices; a kind of lattice-work, such as is used in the windows of prisons and cloisters.

2. An instrument or frame of iron bars for holding coals, used as fuel, in houses, stores, shops, etc.

GRATE, verb transitive To furnish with grates; to make fast with cross bars.

GRATE, verb transitive [Latin rado.]

1. To rub, as a body with a rough surface against another body; to rub one thing against another, so as to produce a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth.

2. To wear away in small particles, by rubbing with any thing rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.

3. To offend; to fret; to vex; to irritate; to mortify; as, harsh words grate the heart; they are grating to the feeling; harsh sounds grate the ear.

4. To make a harsh sound, by rubbing or the friction of rough bodies.

GRATE', verb intransitive To rub hard, so as to offend; to offend by oppression or importunity.

This grated harder upon the hearts of men.

1. To make a harsh sound by the friction of rough bodies.

GRATE, adjective [Latin gratus.] Agreeable. [Not in use.]

Grated

GRA'TED, participle passive Rubbed harshly; worn off by rubbing.

1. Furnished with a grate; as grated windows.

Grateful

GRA'TEFUL, adjective [from Latin gratus. See Grace.]

1. Having a due sense of benefits; kindly disposed towards one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay benefits; as a grateful heart.

2. Agreeable; pleasing; acceptable; gratifying; as a grateful present; a grateful offering.

3. Pleasing to the taste; delicious; affording pleasure; as food or drink grateful offering.

Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine,

And grateful clusters swell with floods of wine.

Gratefully

GRA'TEFULLY, adverb With a due sense of benefits or favors; in a manner that disposes to kindness, in return for favors. The gift was gratefully received.

1. In a pleasing manner. Study continually furnishes something new, which may strike the imagination gratefully

Gratefulness

GRA'TEFULNESS, noun The quality of being grateful; gratitude.

1. The quality of being agreeable or pleasant to the mind or to the taste.

Grater

GRA'TER, noun [See Grate.] An instrument or utensil with a rough indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of a body; as a grater for nutmegs.

Gratification

GRATIFICA'TION, noun [Latin gratificatio, from gratificor; gratus and facio, to make.]

1. The act of pleasing, either the mind, the taste or the appetite. We speak of the gratification of the taste or the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the mind, soul or heart.

2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; delight. It is not easy to renounce gratifications to which we are accustomed.

3. Reward; recompense.

Gratified

GRAT'IFIED, participle passive Pleased; indulged according to desire.

Gratifier

GRAT'IFIER, noun One who gratifies or pleases.

Gratify

GRAT'IFY, verb transitive [Latin gratificor; gratus, agreeable, and facio, to make.]

1. To please; to give pleasure to; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.

2. To delight; to please; to humor; to soothe; to satisfy; to indulge to satisfaction.

For who would die to gratify a foe?

3. To requite; to recompense.

Gratifying

GRAT'IFYING, participle present tense Pleasing; indulging to satisfaction.

1. Giving pleasure; affording satisfaction.

Grating

GRA'TING, participle present tense [See Grate.] Rubbing; wearing off in particles.

1. Fretting; irritating; harsh; as grating sounds, or a grating reflection.

GRA'TING

Gratingly

GRA'TINGLY, adverb Harshly; offensively; in a manner to irritate.

Gratings

GRA'TINGS, noun [See Grate.] A partition of bars; an open cover for the hatches of a ship, resembling lattice-work.

Gratis

GRA'TIS, adverb [Latin] For nothing; freely; without recompense; as, to give a thing gratis; to perform service gratis

Gratitude

GRAT'ITUDE, noun [Latin gratitudo, from gratus, pleasing. See Grace.]

An emotion of the heart, excited by a favor or benefit received; a sentiment of kindness or good will towards a benefactor; thankfulness. gratitude is an agreeable emotion, consisting in or accompanied with good will to a benefactor, and a disposition to make a suitable return of benefits or services, or when no return can be made, with a desire to see the benefactor prosperous and happy. gratitude is a virtue of the highest excellence, as it implies a feeling and generous heart, and a proper sense of duty.

The love of God is the sublimest gratitude

Gratuitous

GRATU'ITOUS, adjective [Latin gratuitus, from gratus.]

1. Free; voluntary; not required by justice; granted without claim or merit.

We mistake the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our own industry.

2. Asserted or taken without proof; as a gratuitous argument or affirmation.

Gratuitously

GRATU'ITOUSLY, adverb Freely; voluntarily; without claim or merit; without an equivalent or compensation; as labor or services gratuitously bestowed.

1. Without proof; as a principle gratuitously assumed.

Gratuity

GRATU'ITY, noun

1. A free gift; a present; a donation; that which is given without a compensation or equivalent.

2. Something given in return for a favor; an acknowledgment.

Gratulate

GRAT'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin gratulor, from gratus, pleasing, grateful.]

1. To express joy or pleasure to a person, on account of his success, or the reception of some good; to salute with declarations of joy; to congratulate. [The latter word is more generally used.]

To gratulate the gentle princes there.

2. To wish or express joy to.

3. To declare joy for; to mention with joy.

Gratulated

GRAT'ULATED, participle passive Addressed with expressions of joy.

Gratulating

GRAT'ULATING, participle present tense Addressing with expressions of joy, on account of some good received.

Gratulation

GRATULA'TION, noun [Latin gratulatio.] An address or expression ofjoy to a person, on account of some good received by him; congratulation.

I shall turn my wishes into gratulations.

Gratulatory

GRAT'ULATORY, adjective Expressing gratulation; congratulatory.

Grave

GRAVE, a final syllable, is a grove.

GRAVE, verb transitive preterit tense graved; participle passive graven or graved. [Gr. to write; originally all writing was graving; Eng. to scrape.]

1. To carve or cut letters or figures on stone or other hard substance, with a chisel or edged tool; to engrave. [The latter word is now more generally used.]

Thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Exodus 28:9.

2. To carve; to form or shape by cutting with a chisel; as, to grave an image.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Exodus 20:4.

3. To clean a ship's bottom by burning off filth, grass or other foreign matter, and paying it over with pitch.

4. To entomb. [Unusual.]

GRAVE, verb intransitive To carve; to write or delineate on hard substances; to practice engraving.

GRAVE, noun [Latin scrobs.]

1. The ditch, pit or excavated place in which a dead human body is deposited; a place for the corpse of a human being; a sepulcher.

2. A tomb.

3. Any place where the dead are reposited; a place of great slaughter or mortality. Flanders was formerly the grave of English armies. Russia proved to be the grave of the French army under Bonaparte. The tropical climates are the grave of American seamen and of British soldiers.

4. Graves, in the plural, sediment of tallow melted. [Not in use or local.]

Grave-Clothes

GRA'VE-CLOTHES, noun The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.

Grave-Digger

GRA'VE-DIGGER, noun One whose occupation is to dig graves.

Grave-Maker

GRA'VE-MAKER, noun A grave-digger.

Grave-Stone

GRA'VE-STONE, noun A stone laid over a grave, or erected near it, as a monument to preserve the memory of the dead.

GRAVE, adjective [Latin gravis, heavy, whence Latin gravo, and aggravo, to aggravate.

1. In music, low; depressed; solemn; opposed to sharp, acute, or high; as a grave tone or sound. Sometimes grave denotes slow.

2. Solemn; sober; serious; opposed to gay, light or jovial; as a man of a grave deportment; a grave character.

Youth on silent wings is flown;

Graver years come rolling on.

3. Plain; not gay; not showy or tawdry; as a grave suit of clothes.

4. Being of weight; of a serious character; as a grave writer.

5. Important; momentous; having a serious and interesting import.

Graved

GRA'VED, participle passive [See the Verb.] Carved; engraved; cleaned, as a ship.

Gravel

GRAV'EL, noun

1. Small stones or fragments of stone, or very small pebbles, larger than the particles of sand, but often intermixed with them.

2. In medicine, small calculous concretions in the kidneys and bladder.

GRAV'EL, verb transitive To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.

1. To stick in the sand.

2. To puzzle; to stop; to embarrass.

3. To hurt the foot of a horse, by gravel lodged under the shoe.

Gravel-Walk

GRAV'EL-WALK, noun A walk or alley covered with gravel, which makes a hard and dry bottom; used in gardens and malls.

Graveled

GRAV'ELED, participle passive Covered with gravel; stopped; embarrassed; injured by gravel.

Graveless

GRA'VELESS, adjective [from grave.] Without a grave or tomb; unburied.

Gravelly

GRAV'ELLY, adjective [from gravel.] Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as a gravelly soil or land.

Gravely

GRA'VELY, adverb [from grave.] In a grave, solemn manner; soberly; seriously.

The queen of learning gravely smiles.

1. Without gaudiness or show; as, to be dressed gravely

Graveness

GRA'VENESS, noun Seriousness; solemnity; sobriety of behavior; gravity of manners or discourse.

Graver

GRA'VER, noun [See Grave.] One who carves or engraves; one whose profession is to cut letters or figures in stone, etc.; a sculptor.

1. An engraving tool; an instrument for graving on hard substances.

Gravid

GRAV'ID, adjective [Latin gravidus, from gravis, heavy.]

Pregnant; being with child.

Gravidated

GRAV'IDATED, adjective Made pregnant; big. [Not in use.]

Gravidation

GRAVIDA'TION, noun Pregnancy. [Not in use.]

Gravidity

GRAVID'ITY, noun Pregnancy. [Not in use.]

Graving

GRA'VING, participle present tense Engraving; carving; cutting figures on stone, copper or other hard substance.

GRA'VING, noun Carved work. 2 Chronicles 2:14.

1. Impression.

Gravitate

GRAV'ITATE, verb intransitive [Latin gravitas, from gravis, heavy.]

To tend to the center of a body, or the central point of attraction. Thus a body elevated above the earth tends to fall, that is, it gravitates towards the center of the earth; and the planets are supposed to gravitate towards the sun, or center of the solar system.

Gravitating

GRAV'ITATING, participle present tense Tending to the center of a body or system of bodies.

Gravitation

GRAVITA'TION, noun The act of tending to the center.

1. The force by which bodies are pressed or drawn, or by which they tend towards the center of the earth or other center, or the effect of that force. Thus the falling of a body to the earth is ascribed to gravitation

Gravity

GRAV'ITY, noun [Latin gravitas, from gravis, heavy. See Grave.]

1. Weight; heaviness.

2. In philosophy, that force by which bodies tend or are pressed or drawn towards the center of the earth, or towards some other center, or the effect of that force; in which last sense gravity is synonymous with weight.

Gravity is the tendency of great bodies to a center, or the sum or results of all the attractions of all the molecules composing a great body.

3. Specific gravity the weight belonging to an equal bulk of every different substance. Thus the exact weight of a cubic inch of gold, compared with that of a cubic inch of gold, compared with that of a cubic inch of water or tin, is called its specific gravity The specific gravity of bodies is usually ascertained by weighing them in distilled water.

4. Seriousness; sobriety of manners; solemnity of deportment or character.

Great Cato there, for gravity renowned.

5. Weight; enormity; atrociousness; as the gravity of an injury. [Not used.

6. In music, lowness of sound.

Gravy

GRA'VY, noun The fat and other liquid matter that drips from flesh in roasting, or when roasted or baked, or a mixture of that juice with flour.

Gray

GRAY, adjective [This is probably the name given to the Greeks, on account of their fair complexion compared with the Asiatics and Africans. [See Europe.] 'Keto bore to Phorcus the Graiae with fair cheeks, white from their birth, and hence they were called Graiae.' The Greek word is rendered an old woman, and in this passage of Hesiod, is supposed to mean certain deities. The probability is, that it is applied to an old woman, because she is gray But the fable of Hesiod is easily explained by supposing the author to have had in his mind some imperfect account of the origin of the Greeks.]

1. White, with a mixture of black.

These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks.

2. White; hoary; as gray hair. We apply the word to hair that is partially or wholly white.

3. Dark; of a mixed color; of the color of ashes; as gray eyes; the gray-eyed morn.

4. Old; mature; as gray experience.

GRAY, noun A gray color.

1. A badger.

Gray-Beard

GRA'Y-BEARD, noun An old man.

Gray-Eyed

GRA'Y-EYED, adjective Having gray eyes.

Gray-Haired

GRA'Y-HAIRED, adjective Having gray hair.

Gray-Headed

GRA'Y-HEADED, adjective Having a gray head or gray hair.

Grayfly

GRA'YFLY, noun The trumpet-fly.

Grayhound

GRA'YHOUND, noun A tall fleet dog, used in the chase.

Grayish

GRA'YISH, adjective Somewhat gray; gray in a moderate degree.

Grayling

GRA'YLING, noun A fish of the genus Salmo, called also umber, a voracious fish, about sixteen or eighteen inches in length, of a more elegant figure than the trout; the back and sides of a silvery gray color. It is found in clear rapid streams in the north of Europe, and is excellent food.

Grayness

GRA'YNESS, noun The quality of being gray.