GRADAUL
GRAD'AUL, noun An order of steps.1. A grail; an ancient book of hymns and prayers.
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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 deg...
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 inc...
GRADUALLY
GRAD'UALLY, adverb By degrees; step by step; regularly; slowly. At evening the light vanishes gradually1. In degree. [Not used.]Human reason doth not only gradually but specific...
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. ...
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 mar...
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....
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 The true original orthography of this word is graff; but graft has superseded the original word, as...
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...
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 ...