Gown (n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.
Gown (n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
Gown (n.) Any sort of dress or garb.
Gowned (p. a.) Dressed in a gown; clad.
-men (pl. ) of Gownman
Gownsman (n.) Alt. of Gownman
Gownman (n.) One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
Gozzard (n.) See Gosherd.
Graafian (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician.
Graal (n.) See Grail., a dish.
Grab (n.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
Grabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Grab
Grabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grab
Grab (v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
Grab (n.) A sudden grasp or seizure.
Grab (n.) An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
Grabber (n.) One who seizes or grabs.
Grabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Grabble
Grabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grabble
Grabble (v. i.) To grope; to feel with the hands.
Grabble (v. i.) To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel.
Grace (n.) The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
Grace (n.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
Grace (n.) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.
Grace (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.
Grace (n.) Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.
Grace (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
Grace (n.) Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
Grace (n.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
Grace (n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.
Grace (n.) Thanks.
Grace (n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.
Grace (n.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
Grace (n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.
Grace (n.) A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.
Graced (imp. & p. p.) of Grace
Gracing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grace
Grace (v. t.) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
Grace (v. t.) To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
Grace (v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace.
Grace (v. t.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Graced (a.) Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable.
Graceful (a.) Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.
Graceless (a.) Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.
Graceless (a.) Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4.
Gracile (a.) Alt. of Gracillent
Gracillent (a.) Slender; thin.
Gracility (n.) State of being gracilent; slenderness.
Gracious (a.) Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.
Gracious (a.) Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.
Gracious (a.) Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.
Graciously (adv.) In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly.
Graciously (adv.) Fortunately; luckily.
Graciousness (n.) Quality of being gracious.
Grackle (n.) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; 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.
Grackle (n.) An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.
Gradate (v. t.) To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.
Gradate (v. t.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.
Gradation (n.) The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
Gradation (n.) The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
Gradation (n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
Gradation (n.) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
Gradation (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
Gradation (v. t.) To form with gradations.
Gradational (a.) By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
Gradatory (a.) Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual.
Gradatory (a.) Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.
Gradatory (n.) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
Grade (n.) A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
Grade (n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
Grade (n.) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
Grade (n.) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.
Graded (imp. & p. p.) of Grade
Grading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grade
Grade (v. t.) To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
Grade (v. t.) To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
Grade (v. t.) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
Gradely (a.) Decent; orderly.
Gradely (adv.) Decently; in order.
Grader (n.) One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
Gradient (a.) Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.
Gradient (a.) Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
Gradient (a.) Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
Gradient (n.) The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
Gradient (n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
Gradient (n.) The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.
Gradin (n.) Alt. of Gradine
Gradine (n.) Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another.
Gradine (n.) A toothed chised by sculptors.
Grading (n.) 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.
Gradinos (pl. ) of Gradino
Gradino (n.) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.
Gradual (n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline.
Gradual (n.) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
Gradual (n.) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
Gradual (n.) A series of steps.
Graduality (n.) The state of being gradual; gradualness.
Gradually (adv.) In a gradual manner.
Gradually (adv.) In degree.
Gradualness (n.) The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.