One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icterid/; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow. An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.
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To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.
To form with gradations.
By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
ordered by some quantitative ranking; as, Reading tests of graded difficulty.
Decent; orderly. Decently; in order.
One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
A toothed chised by sculptors.
Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another.
The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.
A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.
An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps. A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
The state of being gradual; gradualness.
In a gradual manner.
The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
State of being a graduate.
One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments.
A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.
A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.
See Graft.
The scarp of a ditch or moat.
a notary or scrivener.
Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.
Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different-colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.
To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
One who follows the dietetic system of Graham.
One of the small feathers of a hawk.
A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers.
To yield fruit.
Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.
An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
A field where grain is grown.
the quality of being composed of relatively large particles.
A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dobule, and dace.
See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).
Resembling grains; granular.
A dungfork.
Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc.
See Grackle.
An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores.
See Grall/.
Of or pertaining to the Grallatores, or waders.
Pertaining to the Grall/.
Of or pertaining to the Grall/.
Offal of a deer. To remove the offal from (a deer).
The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.
Necromancy; magic.
Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings.
Anger; wrath; scorn.
A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the grasses; gramineous; as, graminaceous plants.
the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane.
Gramineous.
Like, Or pertaining to, grass. See Grass, n., 2.
Bearing leaves resembling those of grass.
Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals.
A pasture grass of the plains of South America and western North America; same as grama grass, which see.
Literally, a letter word; a word represented by a logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t.
To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
The principles, practices, or peculiarities of grammarians.
Without grammar.
Rudiments; first principles, as of grammar.
Grammatical.
Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.
A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule.
A point or principle of grammar.
To render grammatical.
A petty grammarian.
A small genus of large epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of Southeastern Asia to Polynesia; the giants of the Orchidaceae having long narrow leaves and drooping flower clusters often 6 feet long.
Same as Gram the weight.
The unit of mass or weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4.
Grammar; -- a common misspelling.
An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm. This older term is almost completely replaced for modern devices by the word phonograph (or hi-fi), and technological changes have made the term sound antiquated, and it is usually used to refer to older non-electronic versions of the phonograph.
A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.
The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of Passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices.
A West Indian tree (Brya ebenus) yielding a fine grade of green ebony.
See Grenade.
A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse.
See Garnet.
D-mannitol; -- so called because found in the pomegranate. See mannitol.
See Staurolite.
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.
Any of a class of physics theories that attempts to explain the electroweak forces, stong force, and gravitation within a single mathematical conceptual scheme. In the 1990's string theory and superstring theory were prominent examples. Abbreviated GUT, plural GUTs.
Of or pertaining to a grand duke.
An old woman; specifically, a grandmother.
The aunt of one's father or mother.
A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.
The daughter of one's son or daughter.
A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.
The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship.
The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.
Great age; long life.
Of great age; aged; longlived.
A father's or mother's father; an ancestor immediately after the father or mother in lineal ascent.
Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent.
Making great.
The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Grandiloquent.
Consisting of hail; abounding in hail.
Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.
The state or quality of being grandiose,
Grandness.
In a grand manner.
A grandmother.
The mother of one's father or mother.
Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent.
The grandson of one's brother or sister.
Grandeur.
The granddaughter of one's brother or sister.
A grandfather.
Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.
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