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.

A son's or daughter's son.

A father's or mother's uncle.

See Groan.

A building for storing grain; a granary.

A farm steward.

The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.

One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.

To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books.

Bearing grain, or seeds like grain.

Formed like of corn.

Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

as hard as granite.

a kind of ironware with stone gray enamel.

Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.

Granitic.

The act or the process of forming into granite.

Resembling granite in structure or shape.

Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.

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

A grandam.

A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.

A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements.

The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

Capable of being granted.

Given.

The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.

One who grants.

The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance.

In a granular form.

Granular.

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

To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.

The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.

A little grain; a small particle; a pellet.

Full of granulations.

Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone.

A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.

Granular.

Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.

A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.

A citrus tree (Citrus paradisi) bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp.

Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes.

A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.

A seed of the grape.

A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.

A curve or surface, the locus of a point whose coordinates are the variables in the equation of the locus; as, a graph of the exponential function.

a written symbol that is used to represent speech.

Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing; of or pertaining to graphics; as, graphic art work.

In a graphic manner; vividly.

The quality or state of being graphic.

The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.

See Graphoscope.

Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead.

Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite.

Resembling graphite or plumbago.

A person professing to be skilled in graphoanalysis. The synonymous term Graphoanalyst was trademarked by the International Graphoanalysis Society.

The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting; also called graphology. As a discipline, the modern form was developed by Milton Newman Bunker in the period after 1915.

Any species of slate suitable to be written on.

A person skilled in or professing to be skilled in graphology.

The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting; called graphoanalysis by its practitioners. Though its practitioners consider it a science, it is widely considered a pseudoscience, as is astrology.

A kind of photograph.

An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.

A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.

A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.

A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.

A grappling; close fight or embrace.

A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.