The mercer entertained me with the modern manner of some of the nobility receiving company in their morning gowns; perhaps, sir, adds he, you have a mind to see what kind of silk is universally worn.

Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 76.

GRA/BBLE. A. S. Grapian, to feel, to handle, to grab or groap, (Somner.) Of this obsolete grab, grabble is a diminutive.

To feel, (sc.) as if to find something; as if to find the way we should go.

And so [Cato] went forward at adventure, taking extream and incredible pains, and in much danger of his life, grabling all night in the dark without moonlight, through wild olive trees, and high rocks.-North. Plutarch, p. 294.

GRACE, υ.

GRACE, n.

GRACEFUL.

GRACEFULLY.

GRACEFULNESS.

GRA/CELESS.

GRA/CELESSLY.

GRACING, n.
GRA/CIOUS.
GRA/CIOUSLY.
GRACIOUSNESS.

GRATIO/SITY.

Fr. n. Grace; It. Grazia; Sp. Gracia; Lat. Gratia, from grat-es; grates, from the Gr. Χαριτες, by meta

thesis for gartes; and this from χαιρ-ειν, gaudere; which Lennep and Scheidius derive from χα-ειν, explicare;

and the latter adds, that the

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b, ii.

For like as of valiant he derived valour, of just justice, of clement clemency; so also of gracious he comes in with gratiosity, of good goodnesse, of great greatnesse, of honest honesty, and all other such like dexterities, affabilities, and courtesies he termed by the name of virtues, and so pestered philosophy with new, strange, and absurd words, more iwis than was needful.--Holland. Plutarch, p. 54.

Then it is [when a sinner repents] that our blessed Lord feels the fruits of his holy death, the acceptation of his holy sacrifice, the graciousness of his person, the return of his prayers.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 1.

Alone Laertes reign'd, Arcesius' heir,
Alone, Ulysses drew the vital air,

And I alone the bed connubial grac'd,

An unblest offspring of a sire unblest.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xvi

And indeed great reason it was, that he that was Lord of

equivalent to the Lat. Explicatá, exporrectâ, fronte esse, opposed ad frontem in rugas contractam, tristem, austeram; and that hence is deduced the notionanimi liberalis et benè confidentis: and thus it may be considered as having been primarily applied to

An open (countenance;) a serene, calm, benignant (countenance;) to free good-will or kindness; favour, favourable or kind appearance, (generally) pleasing appearance: also to effect of favour, of beneficence, of God's favour. And the verb, to grace,

the

To favour or bestow favour, or honour or dígnity; to honour, to dignify, to decorate, to adorn. Grace, the noun, is applied as a title of honour; also, to the thanks (gratias) offered before or after meals. The Gloss. to Wiclif refers to Mark xiv. for graces, (thanks,) but the word is not there: the constant expression of Wiclif is "to do thankings." Graceful (in Winter's Tale,) full of grace. Gracious, sometimes, as we now use graceful.

And nathles he bygan ys herte in bocsumnesse amende,
An thogte on the vayre grace, that houre Louerd hym
sende.
R. Gloucester, p. 318.

Thau was Inglond in pes & charite,

& alle in Henry gracious kyng & fre.-R. Brunne, p. 133. Fair grace William fond, his chance fulle well him satte, The reame of Inglond so graciously he gatte. Id. p. 72.

Sidney. Defence of Poesy.

And the aungel entride to hir. heil ful of grace the Lord be with thee. blessid be thou among wymmen.

Wiclif. Luk, c. 1. And the angel went in vnto her, & sayde: hayle full of grace, the Lord is with the, blessed art thou amonge wemen. Bible, 1551. Ib.

And whanne twel gheeris werin fillid Felix took a successour Porcius Festus, and Felix wolde give grace to lewis, and left Poul boundun. - Wiclif. Dedis, c. 24.

Who coud it tell, or who coud it endite,
The joye that is maked in the place:
Whan Theseus hath don so fayre a grace r

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1876.

O rodie rosier flouring without opine

Fountain al filthless, as birell currant clere.

Sum drop of thy graceful hewe to us propine.

(Qd. Pandarus) alas what may this be

That thou dispaired art, thus causelesse
What, liueth nat thy lady, benedicite

How wost thou so, that thou art gracelesse.

Who graceth freshest actors evermore.

shining and the other singing at so great a blessing coming upon mankind.-South, vol. xi. Ser. 4.

one

Tell her that's young,

And shuns to have her graces spy'd,

That hadst thou sprung

Not much unlike [is it] to that comparison, which Pytha goras made for the gracing and magnifying of philosophy and contemplation. --Bacon. Advan. of Learning, b. ii.

So little do the events of things answer the first appearances, that a royal family of three princes and two princesses all young and graceful persons that promised a numerous issue, did moulder away so fast, that now, while I am writing, all is reduced to the person of the Queen, and the Dutchess of Savoy.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1602.

This [to ground their fans] teaches a lady to quit her fan gracefully when she throws it aside in order to take up & pack of cards, adjust a curl of hair, replace a falling pin, or apply herself to any other matter of importance.

Spectator, No. 102.

And by these means, and notable gracefulness in his behaviour, and affability, in which he excell'd, he [the Earl of Carlisle) had wrought himself into a particular interest with Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vii. his master, and into greater affection and esteem with the whole English nation, than any other of that country. Clarendon. The Civil War, vol. 1. p. 61,

But infinite in pardon was my Judge
That 1, who first brought death on all, am grac't
The source of life.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.

Certis said he, I n'ill thine offred grace Ne to be made so happy doe intend: Another bliss before mine eyes I place, Another happinesse, another end.

GRADUATE,

GIADUATE,

GRADUATE,

GLADUATES

GRADUATION

GRADUA'TOR Advance or

step, in reg

mity or hou

To have o

rancement, o

pante, to

to confer or

So Schism was begot; and Sacrilege and she, A well-match'd pair, got graceless Heresy.

note or mark

Or if my heedless youth has step'd astray, Too soon forgetful of thy gracious hand, On me alone thy just displeasure lay,

Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, pt. L.

or series.

Gradely,

North (Bro

Grade, n

But take thy judgments from this mourning land.

King. The Art of Cookery.

ast part

I by his wisdom sage and learned am;

He by my beauty gracefully doth shine.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.

You haue a holy father,

A gracefull gentleman, against whose person (So sacred as it is) I haue done sinne.

Id. Annus Mirabilis.

I therefore beg you will be graciously pleased to accept Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale, Act v. sc. 1. this most faithful zeal of your poor subject, who has no other design in it, than your good, and the discharge of his own conscience.-Bp. Burnet. Life. Letter to Charles II. The graciousness and temper of this answer, made no impression on them; but they proceeded in their usual manner. Clarendon. The Civil War, vol. i. p. 325.

And ent'ring as a suppliant all sad
With graceful sorrow, and a comely gate,
She pass'd the presence; where all eyes were cast

On her more stately presence as she past.

Beaumont. Pysche, c. 16.

Thus have I thought to grace a serious lay
With many a wild indeed but flow'ry spray,
In hopes to gain, what else I must have lost,
The attention pleasure hath so much engross'd.

Cowper. Charily.

What I mean is in relation to the grace, which the assertors of the right of appeal thought fit to propose, in order to refer the decision of this point to the arbitration of the senate.-Hurd. The Opinion of an Eminent Lawyer. Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare: Where'er she turns, the Graces homage pay.

Gray. The Progress of Poesy.

Id. Ib. b. v. c. 11.

Yet there are those, who're fond of wit,
Although they never us'd it yet,
Who wits and witlings entertain,
Of Taste, virtù, and Judgment vain;

In both these [posture] to be graceful it is requisite that there be no appearance of difficulty; there is required a small inflexion of the body; and a composure of all the parts in such a manner as not to incumber each other, not to appear divided by sharp and sudden angles.

Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iii. s. 22. For the philosophic nature of his worth requiring he should shew by what means those societies were introduced, this affords him an opportunity of sliding gracefully and easily from the preliminaries into the main subject.

Warburton. On Mr. Pope's Essay on Man. Gracefulness is an idea not very different from beauty; it consists in much the same things; gracefulness is an idea belonging to posture and motion.

Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iii. s. 22.

Instead of regulating the selfish appetites, they laboured all they could to eradicate and destroy them, as things, even in their nature vicious; as the graceless furniture of the old man with his affections and lusts.

Warburton. Works, vol. ix. Ser. 8.

The call of Abraham from a heathen state, represents the gracious call of Christians to forsake the wickedness of the world.-Gilpin, vol. ii. Ser. 16.

All the sacrifices which were enforced on account of transgressions, were considered as solemn acts of atonement; for, if they were performed precisely according to the manner appointed, they were graciously accepted, and the particular offence was considered as obliterated.

Cogan. Theol. Disq. pt. ii. c. 1.

We may conclude, therefore, that this prophetic text had a completion, in the literal and superficial sense of the words, in both its branches, -in the beauty of our Saviour's person, no less than in the graciousness of his speech.

GRADUATION. GRADUA'TORY.

Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 6.

Fr. Grade; It. and Sp. Grado; Lat. Gradus. "Duplicata scansio gradus dicitur, quod gerit ab inferiore in superiorem," (Varro, lib. iv.) Gradus is thus applied toThe motion of one (foot) to pass before the other, over or above the other; to pass forward or backward; to a step upward or forward. (SEE DEGREE.) And gradation,

That the salts of natural bodies do carry a powerful stroke in the tincture and vernish of all things, we shall not deny, if we contradict not experience, and the visible art of dyars, who advance and graduate their colours with salts.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 12.

Habits do, in like manner, gradually evolve themselves, in a long train or series of regular and artificial motions, readily promoting the doing of them, without comprehending that art and reason by which they are directed. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 157.

This fresh-man colledge [an university in Durham] lived not to be matriculated, much less (not lasting seven years) graduated, God in his wisdom seeing the contrary fitter. Fuller. Worthies. Durham.

Then it evidently follows, that, if there were any such action in the next life, the pure soul would apply itself thereto according to the proportion of her judgments, and as they are graduated and qualified.

Digby. Of Man's Soul, c. 2.

That which strikes the great stroke toward our after deceptions, is the pertinacious adherence of many of these first impressions to our graduate understanding.

Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 8.

Dane. I would be a graduate sir, no freshman.

Beaum. & Fletch. Maid of the Inn, Act iv. sc. 1.

[He may] finish his circuit in an English concordance and a topic folio, the gatherings and savings of a sober graduateship. Millon. Liberty of Unlicens'd Printing.

For upholding the fabrick this order would be taken, that every Earl's son at his entry should give 40s. with so much at his graduation; every Lord's son, 30s. &c.

Spottiswood. Church of Scotland, b. iii. an. 1560.

And, if each system in gradation roll,
Alike essential to th' amazing whole,
The least confusion but in one, not all
That system only, but the whole must fall.

Pope. Essay on Man, Epist. 1.
Others or the same [chemists] speak of [it] as a graduatory
substance (as to some metals) or both.
Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 591.

Amongst these [gradient] automata; that iron spider mentioned in Walchius, is more especially remarkable, which, being but of an ordinary bigness, besides the outward similitude (which was very exact) had the same kind of motions with a living spider, and did creep up and down as if it had been alive. Wilkins. Dædalus, b. ii. c. 4.

The next degree to these, will give him no great trouble: and thus by a gradual progress from the plainest and easiest

GRAFF, v. GRAFF, n. GRAFT, V.

GRAFT, n.

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GRA

Fr. Greffer; Dut. Greffien, which, says Lye, you may derive from the A. S. Graf-an, insculpere, (in Goth. GrabGRA'FTER. an.) Graft (sometimes written A.S. verb, graf-ed, grafd, graft, (see Tooke, ii. GRAFTING, n. graff) is the past tense of this 176,) and upon this participle the verb, to graft, is formed. To graff or graft, is

To cut into, to make an incision; by usage, for the purpose of an insertion, and, consequentially, to insert or fix or fasten in or upon. And the graffe of grace.-Piers Plouhman, p. 23.

What if ony of the braunchis bin brokun whanne thou were a weilde olyue tree art graffid among hem, and art maad felowe of the roote and of the fatnesse of the olyue tree?-Wiclif. Romaynes, c. 11.

Though some of the braunches be broken of, and thou beynge a wylde olyue tree, arte grafte in amonge them, and made partaker of the rote and fatnes of the olyue tree.

Bible, 1551. Ib.

Then they framed themselfes to lyue by lawes and not by force, then they lerned to shred their vynes, and they lerned to plant and graffe their olyues.-Goldyng. Justine, fol. 178.

Nature is a right that phantasie hath not framed, but God hath graffed and gyuen man power therunto whereof these are deriued.-Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 33.

How coulde so barraine soile

bring forth so good a graffe,

To whom the reast that seeme good corne

are in respect but chaffe?

Turbervile. To a late acquainted Friend. At this time it is enough for you to bee grafted in the stocke from whence through faith ye may receiue life. Udal. John, c. 25.

So long haue I listened to thy speech
That graffed to the ground is my breach.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. February.

Make choice of your graffs from a constant and well bearing branch. As to the success of graffing, the main skill is, to joyn the inward part of the cion to the sappy part of the stock, closely, but not too forceably; that being the best and most infallible way, by which most of the quick and juicy parts are mutually united, especially toward the bottom. Evelyn. Pomona, c. 3.

The first is, to set the graffe or sion betweene the barke

by step, in regular order or series, in rank or title, dignity or honour. To graduate,

To have or cause to have, to give or take, advancement, or promotion, or rise; to advance, or promote, to proceed, in regular order or series; to confer or assume, rank or title or honour; to note or mark out, delineate or describe, the order or series.

Gradely, orderly, decently, still in use in the North, (Brockett.)

Grade, n. has crept into frequent use.

Also some observed the eleuation of the pole, and drew plats of the countrey exactly graded.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 153.

Gradation, is when we rehearse the word that goeth next before, and bring an other word thereupon that encreaseth the matter, as though one shoulde goe vp a payre of stayres and not leaue till he come at the top.

Wilson. The Arte of Rnctorique, p. 207. The Chinians therefore do vse a kinde of gradation in adUancing men vnto sundry places of authority, which for the most part is performed by the senatours of Paquin. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 94.

The three principall graduates do, for honours sake, drinke off a cup filled euen with the king's owne hand, and are graced with other solemnities. Id. Ib. p. 93.

Had they not learn'd of men, who was their king,
They civilly had spent their lives' gradation,
As meeke and milde as in their first creation.

and sublime of Latin authors, such as are Tully, Virgil, and Horace.-Lacke. Of Education, s. 184.

The texture is so artful, that it may be compared to the work of his own Arachne, where the shade dies so gradually, and the light revives so imperceptibly, that it is hard to tell where the one ceases and the other begins.

Garth. Ovid. Metam. Pref.

According to these observations he graduates his thermometers. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. 1. c. 2. Note 3.

The sum of these articles were, "that no bishop should make any minister, but of the full age of four and twenty, and a graduate, or at least able to give an account in Latin of the thirty-nine articles, and to note the sentences of Scripture whereupon those articles were grounded.

Strype. Life of Abp. Grindal, b. ii. c. 11.

We must remember, that the idea of pain, in its highest degree, is much stronger than the highest degree of pleasure; and that it preserves the same superiority through all the subordinate gradations.

Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. ii. s. 5.

Most people must have observed the sort of sense they have had on being swiftly drawn in any easy coach on a smooth turf, with gradual ascents and declivities. This will give a better idea of the beautiful, and point out its probable cause better, than almost any thing else.

Id. Ib. pt. iv. s. 23.

Flours and thir fruit

Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd

To vital spirits aspire. --Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.

If the transition from humane into perfect mind, is made by a gradual ascent; we cannot conceive, that the personal relation which mind hath to body, should be quitted all at once; but answerably, by degrees.

Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. ii. c. 8.

Which while some ascribe unto the mixture of the elements, others to the graduality of opacity and have left our endeavours to grope them out by twilight, and by darkness almost to discover whose existence is evidenced by light. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 10.

served, and within the confines of which it only suffers a graduated diminution.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 26.

Invest me with a graduate's gown,

Midst shouts of all beholders,

My head with ample square-cap crown,

And deck with hood my shoulders.

Smart. On taking a Bachelor's Degree.

The bounty which that Philosophical Emperor, [Marcus

Antonius] as we learn from Lucian, bestowed upon one of the teachers of philosophy, probably lasted no longer than his own life. There was nothing equivalent to the privileges of graduation.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 1.

shown us; could the noble and useful moral, which results, have been thus forcibly impressed upon our minds, without a violation of those senseless unities.--Seward, Let. 3. p. 243,

Could this gradatory apostacy [of Macbeth] have been

first to cleave the stocke, but soon after they ventured to bore a hole into the very heart of the wood: and then they set fast into the pith just in the mids thereof, but one sion or graffe, for by this kind of graffing, impossible it was that the said pith should receive or bear any more.

Holland. Plinie, b. xvii. c. 14.

For all this, he [a prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.-Knox. Hist. of the Reformation, Pref.

Touching other points belonging to the feat of grafting, all dependeth upon the goodnesse or malignitie of the skie and weather.-Holland. Plinie, b. xvii. c. 15.

God doubtless makes her, and doth make her good,
And grafts her in the body, there to spring;
Which, though it he corrupted flesh and blood,
Can no way to the soul corruption bring.

Davies. Immortality of the Soul, s. 8.

But as it is false husbandry to graft old branches upon young stocks; so we may wonder that our language (not long before this time, created out of a confusion of others, and then beginning to flourish like a new plant) should (as helps to its increase) receive from his hand new grafts of old withered words. Davenant. Preface to Gondivert.

And kills the slimy snail, the worm, and labouring ant, Which many times annoy the graft and tender plant.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 18.

- Shall a few sprayes of vs,
The emptying of our father's luxurie,
Our syens, put in wilde and sauage stock,
Spirt vp so suddenly into the clouds,
And ouer-looke their grafters ?

Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iii. sc. 5.

And the word, which St. James pronounces able to save our souls, he describes as a graff, which must not only be closely embraced by that, wherein it is to fructify, but must continue there, to bring the stock and graff to (if I may speak) concorporate. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 293.

"Survey," pursu'd the sire, "this airy throng,
As, offer'd to the view, they pass along.
These are th' Italian names, which fate will join
With ours, and graft upon the Trojan line."

Dryden. Virgil. Eneid, b. vi.

I am informed by the trials of more than one of the most skilful and experienced grafters of these parts, that a man shall seldom fail of having cherries borne by his graft the same year in which the insition is made, if he take care that

his graft, which must be of a good kind, have blossom-buds,

as they are wont to be called, upon it.

Boyle. Works, vol. 1. p. 341.

But it is worth observing, for our present purpose, what happens both in ordinary graftings, and especially in that kind of incision (taking the word in a large sense) which is commonly called inoculation.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 71.

If that history be not true, Christianity must be false. The Jews are the root, we the branches, "graffed in amongst them."-Watson. Apology for the Bible, Let. 5.

Thus, while genuine revelation and sound philosophy are in perfect good agreement with each other, and with the actual constitution of the universe, the errors of the religious on the one side, and the learned on the other, run in contrary directions; and the discordance of those errors is mistaken for a discord of the truths on which they are severally grafted.-Bp. Horsley, vol. iii. Ser. 39.

"Monarchs," said Twitcher, setting down his beer:
His muscles wreathing a contemptuous sneer:
"Monarchs of mole-hills, oyster-beds, a rock!
These are the grafters of your royal stock."

Chatterton. The Consuliad.

GRAIL. Fr. Gréel, graduel; -Graduale, (Lacombe;)-Gréel, graduel, livre d'église. Graduale de gradior, (Roquefort.) "Graduel," says Cotgrave, " is a masse-book, or part of the masse, invented by Pope Celestine in the year 430." And see Graduel, in Menage.

They removed away all the Popish relics which were so carefully preserved before by the Provost Baker; as massbooks, legends, couchers, and grails, copes, vestments, crosses, pixes, paxes, and the brazen rood itself.

Strype. Life of Abp. Whitgift, c. 3.

The old Popish service-books were still preserved and used by curates, as they stood affected; of which there were divers and sundry sorts, according to the various religious

offices; such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, anuals, &c. Strype. Memorials. Edward VI. an. 1549.

GRAIL, n. Small particles, or gravel. Grele from gracilis, (Upton.)

Heereof this gentle knight vnweeting was;
And lying downe vpon the sandie graile,
Drunke of the streame as cleare as crystall glass.

Spenser. Faerie Qucene, b. i. c. 7.

I saw a spring out of a rocke forth rayle,

As cleare as crystall against the sunny beames,
The bottome yellow, like the golden grayle

That bright PACTOLOS washeth with his streames.
Id. The Visions of Bellay, s. 12.

perare, lacesse

Id. Ib. Act ii. s. 3.

ager or wrath.

, punishmen

whit-grief,

ange

Now es the kyng son

Es gos to Normund

Swift. Progress of Marriage.

And for thei did tha

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 16.

Adiely thei camen

lele it to gode or g

GRAIL. Fr. Greal. Menage refers to sangreal, i. e. sang-real, (sanguis realis.) "Part of Christ's precious blood (says Cotgrave) wandering about the world invisible, (to all but chaste eyes,) and working many wonders and wonderful cures; if we may credit the most foolish and fabulous History of King Arthur."

-And after him good Lucius

That first received Christianity,

The sacred pledge of Christ's Evangely.

Yet true it is, that long before that day,

Hither came Joseph of Arimathy,

Who brought with him the holy grayle (they say)

And preach't the truth; but since it greatly did decay. Spenser. Faerie Qucene, b. ii. c. 10.

GRAIN, v. GRAIN, n. GRA'NARY.

Grain, three words, though commonly classed together, and the two latter, sometimes, GRAINING, n. not very clearly distinguished GRANIVOROUs.) in their use. 1. From the Lat. Granum, a grain of corn. 2. From the A. S. Gren-ian, virescere, to grow. 3. From the A.S. Geregn-an, inficere, to dye or dip, to stain or colour. 1. Grain, Fr. Grain; It. and Sp. Grano; Lat. Granum, which Varro thinks is à gerendo. May it not rather be from the A. S. verb Gren-ian, virescere? Applied to

hough it begyn

Fall alle it tornet

Qu. O Hamlet, speake no more.

Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,825.

Graunt-mercy,

I thanke thee,

That within a

Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act ill. sc. 4.

Lusty and fres

Lad in good h

And lough, an

They boast, within, a store of knowledge,
Sufficient, bless us! for a College,
But take a prudent care, no doubt,
That not a grain shall straggle out.

Lloyd. Familiar Epistle to J. B. Esq.

I speak of granivorous and herbivorous birds, such as common fowls, turkeys, ducks, geese, pigeons, &c.

Paley. Natural Theology, c. 16. was

what the manufactured prohibited to do, the farmer

between two different employments; to keep one part of it

demands of the market, and to employ the other in the cultivation of his land.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 5.

in his granaries and stack yard for supplying the occasional

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GRAIN, v. From the A. S. Gren-ian, viresGRAIN, n. cere, to and thus congrow; GRAINING, n. firming Skinner's notion of the meaning of the word, when used pro fibrarum in ligno rectitudine, for the direction of the fibres in wood, (sc.) the growing of wood, (i. e.) modus quo materia crescendo extenditur. And thus

Her skin lose and slacke Grained like a sacke.

Vio. Excellently done, if God did all.

Ol. 'Tis in graine sir, 'twill endure winde and weather. Vio. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white,

And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply
The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that. Id. Comus.
GRAITH, υ. Skinner, and the Gloss. to

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GRAITH, n. G. Douglas, Ge-red-an, to make ready, fit, prepare. (See also Jamieson.) Mr. Brocket gives graith and graithing, as still in use in the north of England, though somewhat limited in the application.

To make ready, to fit, to prepare; to prepare the way or means: to put in motion. He greythede ys ost faste vp the Erl of Kent.

R. Gloucester, p. 53.

Id. p. 295.

Hii greythede hem myd gret poer, and to Engelond come.
Of Scotlond the best were than in his feith
Ther thei gan alle rest, tille thei herd other greith.

R. Brunne, p. 383.

Sire for great Godes love, the graith thou me tell, Of what myddel erde mar myght I best lerne My crede.

Piers Plouhman. Crede.

Thise clerkes bete him wel, and let him lie, And greithen hem, and take hir hors anon.

Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4307.

Bifore the cors rade a knyght,
On his stede that was ful wight
In his armurs wele arayd,

With sper and target rudely grayd.

Ywaine & Gawin. Ritson, vol. i.

Thus war thai welkumd at the yate,

And yet thai went al in tharate,

Unto the porter no word thai said

A hal thai fand ful guedeli graid.-Id. Ib.

GRAM, v. A. S. Dut. and Ger. Gram, GRAM. iratus. A. S. Gram-ian, irritare, exasperare, lacessere; to anger, to provoke to anger or wrath. Skinner says, it is explainedsorrow, punishment, also to vex. And Mr. Tyrwhitt, grief, anger. See also Jamieson.

Now es the kyng sory, hir dede dos him fulle gram,
He gos to Normundy to his sonne William.

R. Brunne, p. 106.

And for thei did that chek, on oth he suore to gram.
Id. p. 151.

Boldely thei camen, & schewed tham to his face,
Felle it to gode or grame, thei did tham in his grace.
Id. p. 327.

He departed with gram. Id. p. 246.

A mannes mirth it wol turne al to grame.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,871.

And do to me adversitie and grame.

Id. Of Qucene Annelida.

Yet cam there neuer good of strife,

To seche in all a man's life,

Though it begyn on pure game

Full ofte it torneth into grame.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

Geten of a woman with a ram,

Full many men have thei done gram.

Ywaine & Gawin. Ritson, vol. i.

GRAMERCY. Fr. Grammercy; q.d. grandem mercedem tibi det Deus, (Skinner.)

Grand-mercie, great thanks, (Tyrwhitt.) In the fol. 1598 of Chaucer it is written graunt-mercy. Graunt-mercy lord. God thonk it you (quod she) That ye haue saued me my children dere.

But who the prittie elegies
fyrst on their feete did set,
Grammarians stryue, and that case is

in controversie yet.-Drant. Horace. Arte of Poetry. Omnes s. nos, where note one of the figures of gramatical construction, that is called in Latine euocatio.

Udal. Flowers for Latine Speaking, fol. 148.
Gonz. She is in her
Moods, and her tenses: I'le grammer with you
And make a trial how I can decline you.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Laws of Candy, Act ii. sc. 1.
Grammar is the art of true and well speaking a language:
the writing is but an accident.
B. Jonson. The English Grammar, c. 1.
Every grammarian in this land hath learned his prosodia
and already knows this art of numbers.
Daniel. Defence of Rhyme.

So that they have but newly left those grammatic flats and shallows, where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction. --Milton. Of Education.

That churches were consecrated vnto none but the Lord onely, the very generall name it selfe doth sufficiently shew, in as much as by plaine grammaticall construction, church doth signifie no other thing than the Lord's house.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 13.

Our Saviour in this chapter interpreteth the law of Moses, which the Jews thought was then fulfilled, when they had not transgressed the grammatical sense thereof, howsoever they had transgressed against the sentence, or meaning of the legislator.-Hobbs. Of the Kingdom of Darkness.

This is called the petrifying well (how grammatically I Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8964. will not engage) because it converteth spungy substances into stone or crusteth them over round about.

Graunt-mercy, good frend (quod he)
I thanke thee, that thou wouldest so. Id. Dreame.

That within a little space

Lusty and fresh on lieue he was

And in good hele, and hole of speech,

And lough, and said gramercy leech.-Id. Ib.

For many of them they bring home sometimes, paying very little for them, yea most commonly getting them for gramercy.-More. Utopia, b. ii. c. 8.

Gramercy Mammon, said the gentle knight
For so great grace and offred high estate.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.

Grammercy Socrates, that is good counsel (to behold themselves in their looking-glasses or mirrours) indeed, will our young gentlemen and ladies be ready to say, we like it very well, and practise accordingly.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii.

GRAMINEOUS.

Fuller. Worthies. Yorkshire.

Tec. He tells thee true, my noble Neophite; my little grammaticaster, he do's.-B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act i. sc. 2. If we would contest grammaticisms, the word here is passive, ye are returned, reduced, or caused to return.

Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, ii. 25.

Eculei, or Equulei, not instruments of burning plates, like unto an horse, in which men were tormented (forsooth) as in Phalaris his bull, like as some grammatists have imagined.-Holland. Ammianus. Annot, upon the 14th Booke.

Thou hast most traterously corrupted the youth of the realme, in erecting a grammar-schoole.

Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iv. sc. 7.

It will possibly be asked here, is grammar then of no use? And have those who have taken so much pains in reducing

Tooke. Diversions of Purley, vol. i. c. 9.

GRANADO. Sp. Granada; Fr. Grenade. GRANADIER. Globus pyrobolus, which Skinner says is named either from its likeness to a pome-granate, or because it is filled with grains of powder. More commonly now Grenadier.

Blow up, and ruine, myne and countermyne.
Make your petards, and granats, all your fine
Engines of murder, and receive the praise
Of massacring man-kind so many wayes.

B. Jonson. An Execration upon Vulcan. Granadoes without number, shipt off under colour of un

wrought iron.-Marvell. Works, vol. i. p. 528.
With latent mischief stor'd,
Showers of granadoes rain, by sudden burst
Disploding murderous bowels, fragments of steel,
And stones, and glass, and nitrous grain adust.

J. Philips. Blenheim.

Our men, having thrown in their granadoes, marched up to the breach, and entered.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. 1. p. 308. There was a time, when Granby's grenadiers Trimm'd the lac'd jackets of the French Mounseers.

Warton. Oxford Newsman's Verses for the Year 1767. This girl, Mr. Robinson said, was committed, because her father-in-law, who was in the grenadier-guards, had sworn that he was afraid of his life, or of some bodily harm that she would do him, and she could get no sureties for keeping the peace. Fielding. Amelia, b. i. c. 4.

GRANATE, or Granate or garnet, applied precious stone. See

Granate or granite, applied to a kind of stone or marble, so called from the distinctness and minuteness of its grains; or, as Skinner says, because the spots, like grains of corn, are small and round.

And therefore requireth not the emery, as the saphir, granate, and topaz, but will receive impression from steel in a manner like the turchois.-Brown. Vulg. Errours, b. ii. c. 1.

These grenats are found upon the hills among the Nasamons, and as the inhabitants are of opinion, are engendred by means of a certain divine dew or heavenly showre: found they are twinkling against the moonlight, especially when she is in the full. -Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 7.

I have taken a good number of Indian granates out of a lump of heterogeneous matter, whose distinct cavities, like so many cells, contained stones, on some of whose surfaces Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 518.

GRAMINIVOROUS. Gramen, grass.
Gramineous, grassy.
Graminivorous, - devouring, eating, feeding

upon grass.

Such is the evidence in support of the opinion given by the great Swedish naturalist, that the true nard was a gramineous plant, and a species of Andropogon.

Sir W. Jones. On the Spikenard of the Ancients.

In the swan, the web foot, the spoon bill, the long neck, the thick down, the graminivorous stomach, bear all the relations to one another, as concur in one design, that of supplerininasmuch as they all howl, floating upon the surface of shallow pools of water, and seeking its food at the bottom. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 15.

so much about declensions and conjugations, about concords and syntaxis, lost their labour, and been learned to no purpose? I say not so.-Locke. Of Education, s. 168.

Cassaubon was led into that mistake by Diomedes the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a biting invective grammarian, who in effect says this: Satire, among the Poem, made after the model of the ancient Comedy for the reprehension of vices.-Dryden. Dedication to Juvenal.

The latter proposition, of Christ's righteousness being imputed to us, hath no foundation in scripture: nay, it is certainly not true in that sense of the words that the natusal proper grammatical construction of them leads to

Sharp, vol. v. Disc. 9.

What we insist upon here is, that the titles of great God and Saviour are, in this passage, (Tit. ii.) equally applied to Christ. Our adversaries themselves cannot but confess that the words will grammatically bear this construction. Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 128.

If a man, who professes himself a master of grammar, is always found to be speaking improperly and against the rules of concord, can we think him worthy of the name of a grammarian!-Pearce, vol. i. Ser. 12.

It is of great importance to remark, though it may seem a

Who (the present Greeks] as our travellers inform us, take a beggarly pride in keeping up their claim to these wonders of their ancestors' magnificence, by white-washing the Parian marble with chalk, and incrusting the porphyry and granate with tiles and potsherds.

Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. v. s. 1.

Calculations were made a few years ago, of the mean den. sity of the earth, by comparing the force of its attraction with the force of attraction of a rock of granite, the bulk of which could be ascertained: and the upshot of the calculation was, that the earth upon an average through its whole sphere, has twice the density of granite, or about five times that of water.-Paley. Natural Theology, с. 22.

GRAND. GRANDE/E. GRANDE/ESIHIP. GRANDEUR. GRANDE/VITY. GRANDITY. GRANDLING, n. GRANDLY. GRANDNESS.

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