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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.
Pertaining to the genus Grapsus or the family Grapsid/. A grapsoid crab.
One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.
Of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate.
Composed of, or resembling, grapes.
A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
Capable of being grasped.
One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
Seizing; embracing; catching.
Without a grasp; relaxed.
To produce grass.
Green with grass.
Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
Any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale buttercuplike flower.
A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
Any of several usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; they are often kept as cage birds.
An uncontrolled fire in a grassy area.
Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acridid/ and Locustid/, having large hind legs adapted for leaping, and chewing mouth parts. The species and genera are very numerous and some are very destructive to crops. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.
The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
Destitute of grass.
A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn.
Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn.
To make a harsh sound by friction.
Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.
Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart.
One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions.
A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.
The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.
Pleased; indulged according to desire.
One who gratifies or pleases.
To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
giving personal satisfaction.
The brown crust formed upon a gratinated dish; also, the dish itself, as of crusts of bread, game, or poultry.
To cook, as macaroni, in a savory juice or sauce until the juice is absorbed and a crisp surface forms.
same as au gratin.
A harsh sound caused by attrition.
One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis).
For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.
The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.
Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice.
Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.
Worthy of gratulation.
The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation.
Expressing gratulation or joy; congratulatory.
See Grant.
Graywacke.
The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier.
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
A digger of graves.
Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
Without a grave; unburied.
State of being gravelly.
A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.
Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
In a grave manner.
Carved.
The quality of being grave.
A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.
A strong and offensive smell; rancidity.
Having a rank smell.
One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.
The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving.
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction.
Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety; -- of animals as well as people.
Made pregnant; big.
Gravidity.
The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.
Slow-paced. One of the pachyderms.
An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies.
Of or pertaining to measurement by weight; measured by weight.
the measurement of specific gravity.
The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, especially by incision or in intaglio.
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