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- English Word Gravities Definition of Gravity
- English Word Gravity Definition The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.
- English Word Gravity Definition Sobriety of character or demeanor.
- English Word Gravity Definition Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.
- English Word Gravity Definition The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.
- English Word Gravity Definition Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness.
- English Word Gravy Definition The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
- English Word Gravy Definition Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
- English Word Gray Definition White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
- English Word Gray Definition Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
- English Word Gray Definition Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
- English Word Gray Definition A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
- English Word Gray Definition An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
- English Word Grayback Definition The California gray whale.
- English Word Grayback Definition The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.
- English Word Grayback Definition The dowitcher.
- English Word Grayback Definition The body louse.
- English Word Graybeard Definition An old man.
- English Word Grayfly Definition The trumpet fly.
- English Word Grayhound Definition See Greyhound.
- English Word Grayish Definition Somewhat gray.
- English Word Graylag Definition The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose.
- English Word Grayling Definition A European fish (Thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish.
- English Word Grayling Definition An American fish of the genus Thymallus, having similar habits to the above; one species (T. Ontariensis), inhabits several streams in Michigan; another (T. montanus), is found in the Yellowstone region.
- English Word Grayness Definition The quality of being gray.
- English Word Graywacke Definition A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.
- English Word Graze Definition To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- English Word Graze Definition To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
- English Word Graze Definition To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- English Word Graze Definition To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.