Any of several usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; they are often kept as cage birds.
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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.
To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.
The act of gravitating.
Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units.
Causing to gravitate; tending to a center.
A theoretical gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles; the quantum of the gravitational field, having zero rest mass and a spin of 2.
The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.
The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
the SI unit of absorbed dosage of ionizing radiation, equal to an absorbed energy of 1 joule per kilogram of irradiated material; -- abbreviated Gy. This unit is 100 times the commonly used unit, the rad.
showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
The California gray whale. The redbreasted sandpiper or knot. The dowitcher. The body louse.
An old man.
The trumpet fly.
See Greyhound.
Somewhat gray.
The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose.
A European fish (Thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish.
The quality of being gray.
A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.
A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles and sand firmly united together.
The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.
One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market.
The act of one who, or that which, grazes.
Gracefully; smoothly; elegantly.
See Gree, good will.
Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
A device held in the hand, having a supply of grease and attached to a reservoir of pressurized air, used to force grease between adjacent moving parts of a machine, especially in the bearings of motor vehicles.
a person of Italian descent; -- used as a derogatory ethnic slur, and considered offensive.
smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction; as, a greased pig is too slippery to hold.
a greasy substance containing pigments, used as makeup by actors, clowns, and other entertainers; as, the smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd.
resistant to penetration by grease or oil or wax; as, greaseproof wrapping paper.
One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.
A low hardy much-branched spiny shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) common in alkaline soils of Western America.
In a greasy manner.
The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.
Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.
The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.
Having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming.
The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
High-spirited; fearless.
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
a son of a niece or nephew.
a daughter of one's niece or nephew.
an uncle of one's father or mother.
An overcoat.
To become large; to dilate.
not to be surpassed.
In a great degree; much.
The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.
To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.
The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.
One of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus Colymbus (formerly Podiceps), and allied genera, found in the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.
A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.
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