Grange (n.) An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867.
Granger (n.) A farm steward.
Granger (n.) A member of a grange.
Grangerism (n.) The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.
Grangerite (n.) One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.
Grangerize (v. t. & i.) To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books.
Graniferous (a.) Bearing grain, or seeds like grain.
Graniform (a.) Formed like of corn.
Granilla (n.) Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.
Granite (n.) A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.
Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.
Granitic (a.) Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.
Granitic (a.) Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.
Granitical (a.) Granitic.
Granitification (n.) The act or the process of forming into granite.
Granitiform (a.) Resembling granite in structure or shape.
Granitoid (a.) Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.
Granivorous (a.) Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds.
Grannam (n.) A grandam.
Granny (n.) A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.
Granolithic (n.) A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements.
Granted (imp. & p. p.) of Grant
Granting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grant
Grant (v. t.) To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
Grant (v. t.) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
Grant (v. t.) To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
Grant (v. i.) To assent; to consent.
Grant (v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
Grant (v. t.) The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
Grant (v. t.) The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
Grant (v. t.) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
Grantable (a.) Capable of being granted.
Grantee (n.) The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.
Granter (n.) One who grants.
Grantor (n.) The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.
Granular (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance.
Granularly (adv.) In a granular form.
Granulary (a.) Granular.
Granulated (imp. & p. p.) of Granulate
Granulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Granulate
Granulate (v. t.) To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.
Granulate (v. t.) To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.
Granulate (v. i.) To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.
Granulate (a.) Alt. of Granulated
Granulated (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.
Granulated (a.) Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.
Granulation (n.) The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.
Granulation (n.) The state of being granulated.
Granulation (n.) One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing.
Granulation (n.) The act or process of the formation of such prominences.
Granule (n.) A little grain a small particle; a pellet.
Granuliferous (a.) Full of granulations.
Granuliform (a.) Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone.
Granulite (n.) A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
Granulose (n.) 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.
Granulous (a.) Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.
Grape (n.) 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.
Grape (n.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
Grape (n.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
Grape (n.) Grapeshot.
Grape fruit () The shaddock.
Grapeless (a.) Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes.
Grapery (n.) A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.
Grapeshot (n.) 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.
Grapestone (n.) A seed of the grape.
Grapevine (n.) A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.
Graphic (a.) Alt. of Graphical
Graphical (a.) Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.
Graphical (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of writing.
Graphical (a.) Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.
Graphical (a.) Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.
Graphical (a.) Having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a graphic writer.
Graphically (adv.) In a graphic manner; vividly.
Graphicness (n.) Alt. of Graphicalness
Graphicalness (n.) The quality or state of being graphic.
Graphics (n.) The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.
Graphiscope (n.) See Graphoscope.
Graphite (n.) 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.
Graphitic (a.) Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite.
Graphitoid (a.) Alt. of Graphitoidal
Graphitoidal (a.) Resembling graphite or plumbago.
Grapholite (n.) Any species of slate suitable to be written on.
Graphology (n.) The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting.
Graphoscope (n.) An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.
Graphotype (n.) 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.
-graphy () A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography.
Grapnel (n.) 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.
Grappled (imp. & p. p.) of Grapple
Grappling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grapple
Grapple (v. t.) To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.
Grapple (v. t.) To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.
Grapple (v. i.) To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another.
Grapple (v. t.) A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.
Grapple (v. t.) An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab.
Grapple (v. t.) A grappling iron.
Grapplement (n.) A grappling; close fight or embrace.
Grappling (n.) A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.
Grappling (n.) A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
Grapsoid (a.) Pertaining to the genus Grapsus or the family Grapsidae.
Grapsoid (n.) A grapsoid crab.