GOUTINESS — GRANDJUROR

GOUTINESS — GRANDJUROR NWAD GOUTINESS.1

GOUTINESS, n. The state of being subject to the gout; gouty affections. NWAD GOUTINESS.1

GOUTSWELLED, a. Swelled with the gout. NWAD GOUTSWELLED.1

GOUTWORT, n. A plant, the Aegopodium. NWAD GOUTWORT.1

GOUTY, a. Diseased with the gout, or subject to the gout; as a gouty person; a gouty joint; a gouty constitution. NWAD GOUTY.1

1. Pertaining to the gout; as gouty matter. NWAD GOUTY.2

2. Swelled; boggy; as gouty land. [Not in use.] NWAD GOUTY.3

GOVERN, v.t. [L. guberno. The L. guberno seems to be a compound.] NWAD GOVERN.1

1. To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority; to keep within the limits prescribed by law or sovereign will. Thus in free states, men are governed by the constitution and laws; in despotic states, men are governed by the edicts or commands of a monarch. Every man should govern well his own family. NWAD GOVERN.2

2. To regulate; to influence; to direct. This is the chief point by which he is to govern all his counsels and actions. NWAD GOVERN.3

3. To control; to restrain; to keep in due subjection; as, to govern the passions or temper. NWAD GOVERN.4

4. To direct; to steer; to regulate the course or motion of a ship. The helm or the helmsman governs the ship. NWAD GOVERN.5

5. In grammar, to require to be in a particular case; as, a verb transitive governs a word in the accusative case; or to require a particular case; as, a verb governs the accusative case. NWAD GOVERN.6

GOVERN, v.i. To exercise authority; to administer the laws. The chief magistrate should govern with impartiality. NWAD GOVERN.7

1. To maintain the superiority; to have the control. NWAD GOVERN.8

GOVERNABLE, a. That may be governerned, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient; submissive to law or rule. NWAD GOVERNABLE.1

GOVERNANCE, n. Government; exercise of authority; direction; control; management, either of a public officer, or of a private guardian or tutor. NWAD GOVERNANCE.1

GOVERNANT, n. A lady who has the care and management of young females; a governess. [The latter is more generally used.] NWAD GOVERNANT.1

GOVERNED, pp. Directed; regulated by authority; controlled; managed; influenced; restrained. NWAD GOVERNED.1

GOVERNESS, n. A female invested with authority to control and direct; a tutoress; an instructress; a woman who has the care of instructing and directing young ladies. NWAD GOVERNESS.1

GOVERNING, pr. Directing; controlling; regulating by laws or edicts; managing; influencing; restraining. NWAD GOVERNING.1

1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; as a governing wind; a governing party n a state. NWAD GOVERNING.2

2. Directing; controlling; as a governing motive. NWAD GOVERNING.3

GOVERNMENT, n. Direction; regulation. These precepts will serve for the government of our conduct. NWAD GOVERNMENT.1

1. Control; restraint. Men are apt to neglect the government of their temper and passions. NWAD GOVERNMENT.2

2. The exercise of authority; direction and restraint exercised over the actions of men in communities, societies or states; the administration of public affairs, according to established constitution, laws and usages, or by arbitrary edicts. Prussia rose to importance under the government of Frederick II. NWAD GOVERNMENT.3

3. The exercise of authority by a parent or householder. Children are often ruined by a neglect of government in parents. NWAD GOVERNMENT.4

Let family government be like that of our heavenly Father, mild, gentle and affectionate. NWAD GOVERNMENT.5

4. The system of polity in a state; that form of fundamental rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed, or by which individual members of a body politic are to regulate their social actions; a constitution, either written or unwritten, by which the rights and duties of citizens and public officers are prescribed and defined; as a monarchial government, or a republican government. NWAD GOVERNMENT.6

Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without the pretence of miracle or mystery, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind. NWAD GOVERNMENT.7

5. An empire, kingdom or state; any territory over which the right of sovereignty is extended. NWAD GOVERNMENT.8

6. The right of governing or administering the laws. The king of England vested the government of Ireland in the lord lieutenant. NWAD GOVERNMENT.9

7. The persons or council which administer the laws of a kingdom or state; executive power. NWAD GOVERNMENT.10

8. Manageableness; compliance; obsequiousness. NWAD GOVERNMENT.11

9. Regularity of behavior. [Not in use.] NWAD GOVERNMENT.12

10. Management of the limbs or body. [Not in use.] NWAD GOVERNMENT.13

11. In grammar, the influence of a word in regard to construction, as when established usage required that one word should cause another to be in a particular case or mode. NWAD GOVERNMENT.14

GOVERNMENTAL, a. Pertaining to government; made by government. NWAD GOVERNMENTAL.1

GOVERNOR, n. He that governs, rules or directs; one invested with supreme authority. The Creator is the rightful governor of all his creatures. NWAD GOVERNOR.1

1. One who is invested with supreme authority to administer or enforce the laws; the supreme executive magistrate of a state, commmunity, corporation or post. Thus, in America, each state has its governor; Canada has its governor. NWAD GOVERNOR.2

2. A tutor; one who has the care of a young man; one who instructs him and forms his manners. NWAD GOVERNOR.3

3. A pilot; one who steers a ship. James 3:4. NWAD GOVERNOR.4

4. One possessing delegated authority. Joseph was governor over the land of Egypt. Obadiah was governor over Ahab’s house. Damascus had a governor under Aretas the king. NWAD GOVERNOR.5

GOVERNORSHIP, n. The office of a governor. NWAD GOVERNORSHIP.1

GOWAN, n. A plant, a species of Bellis or daisy. NWAD GOWAN.1

GOWK, n. [See Gawk.] NWAD GOWK.1

GOWN, n. NWAD GOWN.1

1. A woman’s upper garment. NWAD GOWN.2

2. A long loose upper garment or robe, worn by professional men, as divines, lawyers, students, etc., who are called men of the gown or gownmen. It is made of any kind of cloth worn over ordinary clothes, and hangs down to the ankles or nearly so. NWAD GOWN.3

4. The dress of peace, or the civil magistracy; cedant arma togoe. NWAD GOWN.4

He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield. NWAD GOWN.5

GOWNED, a. Dressed in a gown. NWAD GOWNED.1

GOWNMAN, n. One whose professional habit is a gown. NWAD GOWNMAN.1

The gownman learn’ed. NWAD GOWNMAN.2

1. One devoted to the arts of peace. NWAD GOWNMAN.3

GRAB, n. A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts. NWAD GRAB.1

GRAB, v.t. To seize; to gripe suddenly. [Vulgar.] NWAD GRAB.2

GRABBLE, v.i. [Eng. scrabble; allied to rub, or L. rapio, or to both.] NWAD GRABBLE.1

1. To grope; to feel with the hands. NWAD GRABBLE.2

2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl. NWAD GRABBLE.3

GRABBLING, ppr. Groping; feeling along; sprawling. NWAD GRABBLING.1

GRACE, n. [L. gratia, which is formed on the Celtic; Eng. agree, congruous, and ready. The primary sense of gratus, is free, ready, quick, willing, prompt, from advancing.] NWAD GRACE.1

1. Favor; good will; kindness; disposition to oblige another; as a grant made as an act of grace. NWAD GRACE.2

Or each, or all, may win a lady’s grace. NWAD GRACE.3

2. Appropriately, the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all the benefits men receive from him. NWAD GRACE.4

And if by grace, then it is no more of works. Romans 11:6. NWAD GRACE.5

3. Favorable influence of God; divine influence or the influence of the spirit, in renewing the heart and restraining from sin. NWAD GRACE.6

My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Corinthians 12:9. NWAD GRACE.7

4. The application of Christ’s righteousness to the sinner. NWAD GRACE.8

Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Romans 5:20. NWAD GRACE.9

5. A state of reconciliation to God. Romans 5:2. NWAD GRACE.10

6. Virtuous or religious affection or disposition, as a liberal disposition, faith, meekness, humility, patience, etc. proceeding from divine influence. NWAD GRACE.11

7. Spiritual instruction, improvement and edification. Ephesians 4:29. NWAD GRACE.12

8. Apostleship, or the qualifications of an apostle. Ephesians 3:8. NWAD GRACE.13

9. Eternal life; final salvation. 1 Peter 1:13. NWAD GRACE.14

10. Favor; mercy; pardon. NWAD GRACE.15

Bow and sue for grace NWAD GRACE.16

With suppliant knee. NWAD GRACE.17

11. Favor conferred. NWAD GRACE.18

I should therefore esteem it a great favor and grace. NWAD GRACE.19

12. Privilege. NWAD GRACE.20

To few great Jupiter imparts this grace. NWAD GRACE.21

13. That in manner, deportment or language which renders it appropriate and agreeable; suitableness; elegance with appropriate dignity. We say, a speaker delivers his address with grace; a man performs his part with grace. NWAD GRACE.22

Grace was in all her steps. NWAD GRACE.23

Her purple habit sits with such a grace NWAD GRACE.24

On her smooth shoulders. NWAD GRACE.25

14. Natural or acquired excellence; any endowment that recommends the possessor to others; as the graces of wit and learning. NWAD GRACE.26

15. Beauty; embellishment; in general, whatever adorns and recommends to favor; sometimes, a single beauty. NWAD GRACE.27

I pass their form and every charming grace. NWAD GRACE.28

16. Beauty deified; among pagans, a goddess. The graces were three in number, Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, the constant attendants of Venus. NWAD GRACE.29

The loves delighted, and the graces played. NWAD GRACE.30

17. Virtue physical; as the grace of plants. [Not used.] NWAD GRACE.31

18. The title of a duke or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England, meaning your goodness or clemency. His Grace the Duke of York. Your Grace will please to accept my thanks. NWAD GRACE.32

19. A short prayer before or after meat; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered. NWAD GRACE.33

20. In music, graces signifies turns, trills and shakes introduced for embellishment. NWAD GRACE.34

Day in grace, in theology, time of probation, when an offer is made to sinners. NWAD GRACE.35

Days in grace, in commerce, the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payor to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States the days of grace are three, but in other countries more; the usages of merchants being different. NWAD GRACE.36

GRACE, v.t. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. NWAD GRACE.37

Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. NWAD GRACE.38

And hail, ye fair, of every charm possess’d, NWAD GRACE.39

Who grace this rising empire of the west. NWAD GRACE.40

1. To dignify or raise by act of favor; to honor. NWAD GRACE.41

He might at his pleasure grace or disgrace whom he would in court. NWAD GRACE.42

2. To favor; to honor. NWAD GRACE.43

3. To supply with heavenly grace. NWAD GRACE.44

GRACE-CUP, n. The cup or health drank after grace. NWAD GRACE-CUP.1

GRACED, pp. Adorned; embellished; exalted; dignifies; honored. NWAD GRACED.1

1. Beautiful; graceful. [Not in use.] NWAD GRACED.2

2. Virtuous; regular; chaste. [Not in use.] NWAD GRACED.3

GRACEFUL, a. Beautiful with dignity; elegant; agreeable in appearance, with an expression of dignity or elevation of mind or manner; used particularly of motion, looks and speech; as a graceful walk; a graceful deportment; a graceful speaker; a graceful air. NWAD GRACEFUL.1

High o’er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. NWAD GRACEFUL.2

GRACEFULLY, adv. With a pleasing dignity; elegantly; with a natural ease and propriety; as, to walk or speak gracefully. NWAD GRACEFULLY.1

GRACEFULNESS, n. Elegance of manner or deportment; beauty with dignity in manner, motion or countenance. Gracefulness consists in the natural ease and propriety of an action, accompanied with a countenance expressive of dignity or elevation of mind. Happy is the man who can add the gracefulness of ease to the dignity of merit. NWAD GRACEFULNESS.1

GRACELESS, a. Void of grace; corrupt; depraved; unregenerate; unsanctified. NWAD GRACELESS.1

GRACELESSLY, adv. Without grace. NWAD GRACELESSLY.1

GRACES, n. Good graces, favor; friendship. NWAD GRACES.1

GRACILE, a. [L. gracilis.] Slender. [Not in use.] NWAD GRACILE.1

GRACILITY, n. Slenderness. [Not in use.] NWAD GRACILITY.1

GRACIOUS, a. [L. gratiosus.] NWAD GRACIOUS.1

1. Favorable; kind; friendly; as, the envoy met with a gracious reception. NWAD GRACIOUS.2

2. Favorable; kind; benevolent; merciful; disposed to forgive offenses and impart unmerited blessings. NWAD GRACIOUS.3

Thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. Nehemiah 9:17. NWAD GRACIOUS.4

3. Favorable; expressing kindness and favor. NWAD GRACIOUS.5

All bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth. Luke 4:22. NWAD GRACIOUS.6

4. Proceeding from divine grace; as a person in a gracious state. NWAD GRACIOUS.7

5. Acceptable; favored. NWAD GRACIOUS.8

He made us gracious before the kings of Persia. [Little used.] 1 Esdras 8:80. NWAD GRACIOUS.9

6. Renewed or implanted by grace; as gracious affections. NWAD GRACIOUS.10

7. Virtuous; good. NWAD GRACIOUS.11

8. Excellent; graceful; becoming. NWAD GRACIOUS.12

GRACIOUSLY, adv. Kindly; favorably; in a friendly manner; with kind condescension. NWAD GRACIOUSLY.1

His testimony he graciously confirmed. NWAD GRACIOUSLY.2

1. In a pleasing manner. NWAD GRACIOUSLY.3

GRACIOUSNESS, n. Kind condescension. NWAD GRACIOUSNESS.1

1. Possession of graces or good qualities. NWAD GRACIOUSNESS.2

2. Pleasing manner. NWAD GRACIOUSNESS.3

3. Mercifulness. NWAD GRACIOUSNESS.4

GRACKLE, n. [L. graculus.] NWAD GRACKLE.1

A genus of birds, the Gracula, of which the crow-blackbird is a species. NWAD GRACKLE.2

GRADATION, n. [L. gradatio.] NWAD GRADATION.1

1. A series of ascending steps or degrees, or a proceeding step by step; hence, progress from one degree or state to another; a regular advance from step to step. We observe a gradation in the progress of society from a rude to civilized life. Men may arrive by several gradations to the most horrid impiety. NWAD GRADATION.2

2. A degree in any order or series; we observe a gradation in the scale of being, from brute to mane, from man to angels. NWAD GRADATION.3

3. Order; series; regular process by degrees or steps; as a gradation in argument or description. NWAD GRADATION.4

GRADATORY, a. Proceeding step by step. NWAD GRADATORY.1

GRADATORY, n. Steps from the cloisters into the church. NWAD GRADATORY.2

GRADE, n. [L. 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.] NWAD GRADE.1

1. A degree or rank in order or dignity, civil, military or ecclesiastical. NWAD GRADE.2

While questions, periods, and grades and privileges are never once formally discussed. NWAD GRADE.3

2. A step or degree in any ascending series; as crimes of every grade. NWAD GRADE.4

When we come to examine the intermediate grades. NWAD GRADE.5

GRADIENT, a. [L. gradiens, gradior.] Moving by steps; walking; as gradient automata. NWAD GRADIENT.1

GRADUAL, a. 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 increase of light in the morning is favorable to the eyes. NWAD GRADUAL.1

1. Proceeding by degrees in a descending line or progress; as a gradual decline. NWAD GRADUAL.2

GRADAUL, n. An order of steps. NWAD GRADAUL.1

1. A grail; an ancient book of hymns and prayers. NWAD GRADAUL.2

GRADUALLY, adv. By degrees; step by step; regularly; slowly. At evening the light vanishes gradually. NWAD GRADUALLY.1

1. In degree. [Not used.] NWAD GRADUALLY.2

Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. NWAD GRADUALLY.3

GRADUATE, v.t. [L. gradus, a degree.] NWAD GRADUATE.1

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. NWAD GRADUATE.2

2. To mark with degrees, regular intervals, or division; as, to graduate a thermometer. NWAD GRADUATE.3

3. To form shades or nice differences. NWAD GRADUATE.4

4. To raise to a higher place in the scale of metals. NWAD GRADUATE.5

5. To advance by degrees; to improve. NWAD GRADUATE.6

Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts. NWAD GRADUATE.7

6. To temper; to prepare. NWAD GRADUATE.8

Diseases originating in the atmosphere act exclusively on bodies graduated to receive their impressions. NWAD GRADUATE.9

7. To mark degrees or differences of any kind; as, to graduate punishment. NWAD GRADUATE.10

8. In chimistry, to bring fluids to a certain degree of consistency. NWAD GRADUATE.11

GRADUATE, v.i. To receive a degree from a college or university. NWAD GRADUATE.12

1. To pass by degrees; to change gradually. Sandstone which graduates into gneiss, Carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz. NWAD GRADUATE.13

GRADUATE, n. One who has received a degree in a college or university, or from some professional incorporated society. NWAD GRADUATE.14

GRADUATED, pp. Honored with a degree or diploma from some learned society or college. NWAD GRADUATED.1

1. Marked with degrees or regular intervals; tempered. NWAD GRADUATED.2

GRADUATESHIP, n. The state of a graduate. NWAD GRADUATESHIP.1

GRADUATING, ppr. Honoring with a degree; marking with degrees. NWAD GRADUATING.1

GRADUATION, n. Regular progression by succession of degrees. NWAD GRADUATION.1

1. Improvement; exaltation of qualities. NWAD GRADUATION.2

2. The act of conferring or receiving academical degrees. NWAD GRADUATION.3

3. The act of marking with degrees. NWAD GRADUATION.4

4. The process of bringing a liquid to a certain consistence by evaporation. NWAD GRADUATION.5

GRADUATOR, n. An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into equal parts. NWAD GRADUATOR.1

GRAFF, n. [See Grave.] A ditch or moat. NWAD GRAFF.1

GRAFF, for graft. NWAD GRAFF.2

GRAFT, n. [L. scribo, the sense of which is to scrape or to dig.] NWAD GRAFT.1

A small shoot or cion of a tree, inserted in another tree as the stock which is to support and nourish it. These unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. NWAD GRAFT.2

GR`AFT, v.t. To insert a cion or shoot, or a small cutting of it, into another tree. NWAD GRAFT.3

1. To propagate by insertion or inoculation. NWAD GRAFT.4

2. To insert in a body to which it did not originally belong. Romans 11:17. NWAD GRAFT.5

3. To impregnate with a foreign branch. NWAD GRAFT.6

4. To join one thing to another so as to receive support from it. NWAD GRAFT.7

And graft my love immortal on thy fame. NWAD GRAFT.8

GR`AFT, v.i. To practice the insertion of foreign cions on a stock. NWAD GRAFT.9

GRAFTED, pp. Inserted on a foreign stock. NWAD GRAFTED.1

GRAFTER, n. One who inserts cions on foreign stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting. NWAD GRAFTER.1

GRAFTING, ppr. Inserting cions on different stocks. NWAD GRAFTING.1

Note. The true original orthography of this word is graff; but graft has superseded the original word, as it has in the compound ingraft. NWAD GRAFTING.2

GRAIL, n. [L. graduale.] A book of offices in the Romish church. NWAD GRAIL.1

GRAIL, n. Small particles of any kind. NWAD GRAIL.2

GRAIN, n. [L. granum.] NWAD GRAIN.1

1. Any small hard mass; as a grain of sand or gravel. Hence, NWAD GRAIN.2

2. A single seed or hard seed of a plant, particularly of those kinds whose seeds are used for food of man or beast. This is usually inclosed in a proper shell or covered with a husk, and contains the embryo of a new plant. Hence, NWAD GRAIN.3

3. Grain, without a definitive, signifies corn in general, or the fruit of certain plants which constitutes the chief food of man and beast, as wheat, rye, barley, oats and maiz. NWAD GRAIN.4

4. A minute particle. NWAD GRAIN.5

5. A small weight, or the smallest weight ordinarily used, being the twentieth part of the scruple in apothecaries’ weight, and the twenty fourth of a pennyweight troy. NWAD GRAIN.6

6. A component part of stones and metals. NWAD GRAIN.7

7. The veins or fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; whence, cross-grained, and against the grain. NWAD GRAIN.8

8. The body or substance of wood as modified by the fibers. NWAD GRAIN.9

Hard box, and linden of a softer grain. NWAD GRAIN.10

9. The body or substance of a thing considered with respect to the size, form or direction of the constituent particles; as stones of a fine grain. NWAD GRAIN.11

The tooth of a sea-horse, contains a curdled grain. NWAD GRAIN.12

10. Any thing proverbially small; a very small particle or portion; as a grain of wit or of common sense. NWAD GRAIN.13

Neglect not to make use of any grain of grace. NWAD GRAIN.14

11. Dyed or stained substance. NWAD GRAIN.15

All in a robe of darkest grain. NWAD GRAIN.16

12. The direction of the fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; hence the phrase, against the grain, applied to animals, that is, against their natural tempers. NWAD GRAIN.17

13. The heart or temper; as brothers not united in grain. NWAD GRAIN.18

14. The form of the surface of any thing with respect to smoothness or roughness; state of the grit of any body composed of grains; as sandstone of a fine grain. NWAD GRAIN.19

15. A tine, prong or spike. NWAD GRAIN.20

A grain of allowance, a small allowance or indulgence; a small portion to be remitted; something above or below just weight. NWAD GRAIN.21

To dye in grain, is to dye in the raw material, as wool or silk before it is manufactured. NWAD GRAIN.22

GRAIN, v.i. To yield fruit. NWAD GRAIN.23

GRAIN, GRANE, for groan. [Not in use.] NWAD GRAIN.24

GRAINED, a. Rough; made less smooth. NWAD GRAINED.1

1. Dyed in grain; ingrained. NWAD GRAINED.2

GRAINER, n. A lixivium obtained by infusing pigeon’s dung in water; used by tanners to give flexibility to skins. NWAD GRAINER.1

GRAINING, n. Indentation. NWAD GRAINING.1

1. A fish of the dace kind. NWAD GRAINING.2

GRAINS, n. [in the plural.] The husks or remains of malt after brewing, or of any grain after distillation. NWAD GRAINS.1

Grains of paradise, an Indian spice, the seeds of a species of Amomum. NWAD GRAINS.2

GRAINSTAFF, n. A quarter-staff. NWAD GRAINSTAFF.1

GRAINY, a. Full of grains or corn; full of kernels. NWAD GRAINY.1

GRAITH, v.t. To prepare. [See Greith and Ready.] NWAD GRAITH.1

GRALLIC, a. [L. 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. NWAD GRALLIC.1

GRAM, a. Angry. NWAD GRAM.1

GRAM, n. [Gr. the twenty fourth part of an ounce.] NWAD GRAM.2

In the new system of French weights, the unity of weights. It is the weight of a quantity of distilled water equal to a cubic centimeter, or 18 grains French, or du poids de marc, equal to 15.444 grains troy. NWAD GRAM.3

GRAMERCY, for Fr. grand-merci, is not in use. It formerly was used to express obligation. NWAD GRAMERCY.1

GRAMINEAL, GRAMINEOUS, a. [L. gramineus, from gramen, grass.] NWAD GRAMINEAL.1

Grassy; like or pertaining to grass. Gramineous plants are those which have simple leaves, a jointed stem, a husky calyx, termed glume, and a single seed. This description however includes several sorts of corn, as well as grass. NWAD GRAMINEAL.2

GRAMINIVOROUS, a. [L. gramen, grass, and voro, to eat.] NWAD GRAMINIVOROUS.1

Feeding or subsisting on grass. The ox and all the bovine genus of quadrupeds are graminivorous animals; so also the horse or equine genus. NWAD GRAMINIVOROUS.2

GRAMMAR, n. [L. grammatica; Gr. a letter, to write.] NWAD GRAMMAR.1

1. In practice, the art of speaking or writing a language with propriety or correctness, according to established usage. NWAD GRAMMAR.2

As a science, grammar treats of the natural connection between ideas and words, and develops the principles which are common to all languages. NWAD GRAMMAR.3

2. A system of general principles and of particular rules for speaking or writing a language; or digested compilation of customary forms of speech in a nation; also, a book containing such principles and rules. NWAD GRAMMAR.4

3. Propriety of speech. To write grammar, we must write according to the practice of good writers and speakers. NWAD GRAMMAR.5

GRAMMAR, v.i. To discourse according to the rules of grammar. NWAD GRAMMAR.6

GRAMMAR, a. Belonging to or contained in grammar; as a grammar rule. NWAD GRAMMAR.7

GRAMMAR-SCHOOL, n. A school in which the learned languages are taught. By learned languages, we usually mean the Latin and Greek; but others may be included. NWAD GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.1

GRAMMARIAN, n. One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist. NWAD GRAMMARIAN.1

1. One who teaches grammar. NWAD GRAMMARIAN.2

GRAMMATICAL, a. Belonging to grammar; as a grammatical rule. NWAD GRAMMATICAL.1

1. According to the rules of grammar. We say, a sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical. NWAD GRAMMATICAL.2

GRAMMATICALLY, adv. According to the principles and rules of grammar; as, to write or speak grammatically. NWAD GRAMMATICALLY.1

GRAMMATICASTER, n. [L.] A low grammarian; a pretender to a knowledge of grammar; a pedant. NWAD GRAMMATICASTER.1

GRAMMATICIZE, v.t. To render grammatical. NWAD GRAMMATICIZE.1

GRAMMATIST, n. A pretender to a knowledge of grammar. NWAD GRAMMATIST.1

GRAMMATITE, n. [See Tremolite.] NWAD GRAMMATITE.1

GRAMPLE, n. A crab-fish. NWAD GRAMPLE.1

GRAMPUS, n. A fish of the cetaceous order, and genus Delphinus. This fish grows to the length of twenty five feet, and is remarkably thick in proportion to its length. The nose is flat and turns up at the end. It has 30 teeth in each jaw. The spout-hole is on the top of the neck. The color of the back is black; the belly is of a snowy whiteness; and on each shoulder is a large white spot. This fist is remarkably voracious. NWAD GRAMPUS.1

GRANADILLA, n. A plant; the fruit of the Passiflora quadrangulata. NWAD GRANADILLA.1

GRANADE, GRANADO. [See Grenade.] NWAD GRANADE.1

GRANARY, n. [L. granarium, from granum, grain.] NWAD GRANARY.1

A store house or repository of grain after it is thrashed; a corn-house. NWAD GRANARY.2

GRANATE, n. Usually written garnet, which see. NWAD GRANATE.1

GRANATITE, n. [See Grenatite.] NWAD GRANATITE.1

GRAND, a. [L. grandis.] NWAD GRAND.1

1. Great; but mostly in a figurative sense; illustrious; high in power or dignity; as a grand lord. NWAD GRAND.2

2. Great; splendid; magnificent; as a grand design; a grand parade; a grand view or prospect. NWAD GRAND.3

3. Great; principal; chief; as Satan our grand foe. NWAD GRAND.4

4. Noble; sublime; lofty; conceived or expressed with great dignity; as a grand conception. NWAD GRAND.5

In general, we apply the epithet grand to that which is great and elevated, or which elevates and expands our ideas. The ocean, the sky, a lofty tower are grand objects. But to constitute a thing grand, it seems necessary that it should be distinguished by some degree of beauty. NWAD GRAND.6

5. Old; more advanced; as in grandfather, grandmother, that is, old-father; and to correspond with this relation, we use grandson, granddaughter, grandchild. NWAD GRAND.7

GRANDAM, n. [grand and dame.] Grandmother. NWAD GRANDAM.1

1. An old woman. NWAD GRANDAM.2

GRANDCHILD, n. A son’s or daughter’s child; a child in the second degree of descent. NWAD GRANDCHILD.1

GRANDDAUGHTER, n. The daughter of a son or daughter. NWAD GRANDDAUGHTER.1

GRANDEE, n. A nobleman; a man of elevated rank or station. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who has the king’s leave to be covered in his presence. NWAD GRANDEE.1

GRANDEESHIP, n. The rank or estate of a grandee. NWAD GRANDEESHIP.1

GRANDEUR, n. In a general sense, greatness; that quality or combination of qualities in an object, which elevates or expands the mind, and excites pleasurable emotions in him who views or contemplates it. Thus the extent and uniformity of surface in the ocean constitute grandeur; as do the extent, the elevation, and the concave appearance or vault of the sky. So we speak of the grandeur of a large and well proportioned edifice, of an extensive range of lofty mountains, of a large cataract, of a pyramid. etc. NWAD GRANDEUR.1

1. Splendor of appearance; state; magnificence; as the grandeur of a court, of a procession. etc. NWAD GRANDEUR.2

2. Elevation of thought, sentiment or expression. We speak of the grandeur of conceptions, and of style or diction. NWAD GRANDEUR.3

3. Elevation of mien or air and deportment. NWAD GRANDEUR.4