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  • English Word Gracious Definition 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.
  • English Word Gracious Definition Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.
  • English Word Gracious Definition Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.
  • English Word Graciously Definition In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly.
  • English Word Graciously Definition Fortunately; luckily.
  • English Word Graciousness Definition Quality of being gracious.
  • English Word Grackle Definition 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.
  • English Word Grackle Definition An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.
  • English Word Gradate Definition To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.
  • English Word Gradate Definition To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.
  • English Word Gradation Definition The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
  • English Word Gradation Definition The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
  • English Word Gradation Definition Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
  • English Word Gradation Definition A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
  • English Word Gradation Definition A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
  • English Word Gradation Definition To form with gradations.
  • English Word Gradational Definition By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
  • English Word Gradatory Definition Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual.
  • English Word Gradatory Definition Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.
  • English Word Gradatory Definition A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
  • English Word Grade Definition 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.
  • English Word Grade Definition 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.
  • English Word Grade Definition A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
  • English Word Grade Definition 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.
  • English Word Grade Definition To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
  • English Word Grade Definition To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
  • English Word Grade Definition To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
  • English Word Grade Definition A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
  • English Word Graded Definition of Grade
  • English Word Gradely Definition Decent; orderly.