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6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
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Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. Hazlitt.
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I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. Longfellow.
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7. pl. (Myth.) 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.
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The Graces love to weave the rose. Moore.
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The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. Prior.
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8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.
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How fares your Grace ! Shak.
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9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.]
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Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. Chaucer.
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10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.
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11. pl. (Mus.) 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.
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12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. Walton.
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13. pl. 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.
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Coloq. Act of grace . See under . -- Coloq. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted.
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That day of grace fleets fast away. I. Watts.
-- Coloq. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. -- Coloq. Good graces , favor; friendship. -- Coloq. Grace cup . (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said.
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The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. Hing.
-- Coloq. Grace drink , a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup.
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To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. Encyc. Brit.
-- Coloq. Grace hoop , a hoop used in playing graces. See , n., 13. -- Coloq. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See , and def. 11 above. -- Coloq. Grace stroke , a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. -- Coloq. Means of grace , means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. -- Coloq. To do grace , to reflect credit upon.
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Content to do the profession some grace. Shak.
-- Coloq. To say grace , to render thanks before or after a meal. -- Coloq. With a good grace , in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. -- Coloq. With a bad grace , in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously.
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What might have been done with a good grace would at least
be done with a bad grace. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. -- , . These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See .
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Grace (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gracing (?).] 1. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
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Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. Pope.
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We are graced with wreaths of victory. Shak.
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2. To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
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He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would
in court. Knolles.
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3. To supply with heavenly grace. Bp. Hall.
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4. (Mus.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
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Graced (?), a. Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. Shak.
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Graceful (?), a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.
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High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden.

-- Gracefully, adv. Gracefulness, n.
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Graceless, a. 1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. “In a graceless age.” Milton.
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2. Unfortunate. Cf. , n., 4. [Obs.] Chaucer.

-- Gracelessly, adv. -- Gracelessness, n.

gracilariid n. Any of several small dull or metallic-colored tineoid moths whose larvae mine in plant leaves; a member of the Gracilariidae.
Syn. -- gracilariid moth.
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Gracilariidae prop. n. A natural family of moths, the larvae of which are one type of leaf miner.
Syn. -- Gracillariidae, family Gracilariidae.
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{ Gracile (?), Gracillent (?) } a. [L. gracilis, gracilentus.] Slender; thin. [Obs.] Bailey.
Syn. -- willowy.
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Gracility (?), n. [L. gracilitas; cf. F. gracilité.] State of being gracilent; slenderness. Milman. “Youthful gracility.” W. D. Howells.
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Gracillariidae n. Same as .
Syn. -- Gracilariidae.
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Gracious (grāshŭs), a. [F. gracieux, L. gratiosus. See .] 1. 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.
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A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. Neh. ix. 17.
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So hallowed and so gracious in the time. Shak.
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2. Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.
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Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . .
There was not such a gracious creature born. Shak.
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3. Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.

Syn. -- Favorable; kind; benevolent; friendly; beneficent; benignant; merciful.
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Graciously (?), adv. 1. In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. Dryden.
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2. Fortunately; luckily. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Graciousness, n. Quality of being gracious.
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Grackle (?), n. [Cf. L. graculus jackdaw.] (Zoöl.) (a) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridæ; 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 . (b) An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See .
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Gradate (?), v. t. [See .] 1. To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.
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2. (Chem.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.
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Gradation (?), n., [L. gradatio: cf. F. gradation. See .] 1. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
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2. The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
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3. Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
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The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor.
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4. (Fine Arts) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
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6. (Mus.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
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Gradation, v. t. To form with gradations. [R.]
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Gradational (?), a. By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
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Gradatory (?), a. [See .] 1. Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual.
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Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us. A. Seward.
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2. (Zoöl.) Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.
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Gradatory, n. [Cf. LL. gradatarium.] (Arch.) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
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Grade (grād), n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. , , .] 1. 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.
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They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure,
teachers of every grade. Buckle.
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2. In a railroad or highway: (a) 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. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
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3. (Stock Breeding) 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.
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Coloq. At grade , on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. -- Coloq. Down grade , a descent, as on a graded railroad. -- Coloq. Up grade , an ascent, as on a graded railroad. -- Coloq. Equating for grades . See under . -- Coloq. Grade crossing , a crossing at grade.
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Grade, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graded; p. pr. & vb. n. Grading.] 1. To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
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2. To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
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3. (Stock Breeding) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
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graded adj. 1. ordered by some quantitative ranking; as, Reading tests of graded difficulty.
Syn. -- ordered, ranked.
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2. leveled and drained but not paved; -- of roads.
Syn. -- graveled.
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Gradely, a. [Cf. AS. grad grade, step, order, fr. L. gradus. See .] Decent; orderly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- adv. Decently; in order. [Prov. Eng.]
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Grader (?), n. 1. One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

2. Specifically: A vehicle used for levelling earth, esp. one with a plow blade suspended from the center, used specifically for grading roads.
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Gradient (?), a. [L. gradiens, p. pr. of gradi to step, to go. See .] 1. Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata. Wilkins.
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2. Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
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3. Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
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Gradient, n. 1. The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
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2. A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
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3. The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.

4. (Chem., Biochem.) The variation of the concentration of a chemical substance in solution through some linear path; also called concentration gradient; -- usually measured in concentration units per unit distance. Concentration gradients are created naturally, e.g. by the diffusion of a substance from a point of high concentration toward regions of lower concentration within a body of liquid; in laboratory techniques they may be made artificially.
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Coloq. gradient maker (Biochem.) a device which creates a concentration gradient in a solution within some apparatus; -- used, e. g., for separation of biochemical substances.
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Coloq. Gradient post , a post or stake indicating by its height or by marks on it the grade of a railroad, highway, or embankment, etc., at that spot.

{ Gradin (?), Gradine (?),} n. [F. gradin, dim. of grade. See .] (Arch.) Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another. “The gradines of the amphitheeater.” Layard.
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Gradine (?), n. [F. gradine.] A toothed chised by sculptors.
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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.
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Gradino (?), n.; pl. Gradinos (#). [It.] (Arch.) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. , and .
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Gradual (?); a. [Cf; F. graduel. See , and cf. , 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.
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Creatures animate with gradual life
Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. Milton.
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Gradual, n. [LL. graduale a gradual (in sense 1), fr. L. gradus step: cf. F. graduel. See , and cf. a gradual.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) (a) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps. (b) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
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2. A series of steps. [Obs.] Dryden.
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Graduality (?), n. The state of being gradual; gradualness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
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Gradually (?), adv. 1. In a gradual manner.
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2. In degree. [Obs.]
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Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.
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Gradualness, n. The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
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The gradualness of this movement. M. Arnold.
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The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer. H. Drummond.
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Graduate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graduated (?) p. pr. & vb. n. Graduating (�).] [Cf. F. graduer. See , n., .]
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1. To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
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2. To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.
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3. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.
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Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts. Browne.
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4. (Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
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Coloq. Graduating engine , a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under .
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Graduate, v. i. 1. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
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2. (Zoöl.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
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3. To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
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He graduated at Oxford. Latham.
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He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated. Macaulay.
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Graduate (?), n. [LL. graduatus, p. p. of graduare to admit to a degree, fr. L. gradus grade. See , n.] 1. One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.
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2. A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under .
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Graduate, a. [See , n. & v.] Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
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Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate
and subordinate stages. Tatham.
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Graduated (?), a. 1. Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
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2. (Zoöl.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.
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3. Having visible marks and numbers at vertical intervals, permitting one to estimate the quantitity of material contained; -- of vessels, most commonly those used in laboratories for containing liquids. See graduated cylinder, etc., below.
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Coloq. Graduated cylinder , Coloq. Graduated flask , Coloq. Graduated tube , Coloq. Graduated bottle , Coloq. Graduated cap , Coloq. Graduated glass a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Coloq. Graduated spring (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.
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Graduateship, n. State of being a graduate. Milton.
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Graduation (?), n. [LL. graduatio promotion to a degree: cf. F. graduation division into degrees.]
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1. The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
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2. The marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or quantity; a scale.
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3. The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
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Graduator (?), n. 1. One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments.
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2. An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals.
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3. An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.
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Gradus (?), n. [From L. gradus ad Parnassum a step to Parnassus.] A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.
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He set to work . . . without gradus or other help. T. Hughes.
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Graf (?), n. [G. Cf. .] A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See .
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Graff (?), n. [OE. grafe, greife, greive. Cf. .] A steward; an overseer.
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[A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ. John Knox.
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Graff n. & v. See .
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Graffage (?), n. [Cf. Grave, n.] The scarp of a ditch or moat. “To clean the graffages.” Miss Mitford.
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Graffer (?), n. [See Greffier.] (Law.) a notary or scrivener. Bouvier.
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