Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: GRAITH – GRAM'PLE
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GRAITH, v.t.
To prepare. [See Greith and Ready.]
GRAL'LAE, n. plur. [Lat.]
Sec the next word.
GRAL'LA-TO-RY, a. [L. grallatorius.]
Denoting fowls which are waders, having long naked legs.
GRAL'LIC, a. [L. grallae, stilts, crutches.]
Stilted; an epithet given to an order of fowls having long legs, naked above the knees, which fit them for wading in water.
GRAM, a. [Sax. gram; Sw. gram, angry; Dan. gram, envious, grudging.]
GRAM, n. [Fr. gramme, from Gr. {} whence {}, the twenty fourth part of an ounce.]
In the new system of French weights, the unity of weights. It is the weight of a quantity of distilled water equal to a cubic centimeter, or 18 grains {symbol} French, or du poids de marc, equal to 15.444 grains troy. Lunier.
for Fr. grand-merci, is not in use. It formerly was used to express obligation. Spenser.
Bearing leaves like grass.
GRAM-IN-IV'O-ROUS, a. [L. gramen, grass, and voro, to eat.]
Feeding or subsisting on grass. The ox and all the bovine genus of quadrupeds are graminivorous animals; so also the horse or equine genus.
GRAM'MAR, a.
Belonging to or contained in grammar; as, a grammar rule.
GRAM'MAR, n. [Fr. grammaire; L. grammatica; Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, a letter, from {foreign}, to write. See Grave.]
- In practice, the art of speaking or writing a language with propriety or correctness, according to established usage. As a science, grammar treats of the natural connection between ideas and words, and develops the principles which are common to all languages.
- A system of general principles and of particular rules for speaking or writing a language; or a digested compilation of customary forms of speech in a nation; also, a book containing such principles and rules.
- Propriety of speech. To write grammar, we must write according to the practice of good writers and speakers. [“Grammar is a term borrowed from the Greek, and used with little variation by the Latins, French, English, &c.; but the Welsh are under no necessity of borrowing from others, while they have so significant a term of their own as llythyreg.” The Rev. John Walters's Diss. on the Welsh Language, Cowbridge, 1771, 8vo. p. 32. – E. H. B.]
GRAM'MAR, v.i.
To discourse according to the rules of grammar. [Obs.]
GRAM-MA'RI-AN, n.
- One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
- One who teaches grammar.
GRAM'MAR-LESS, a.
Destitute of grammar.
GRAM'MAR-SCHOOL, n.
A school in which the learned languages are taught. By learned languages, we usually mean the Latin and Greek; but others may be included.
GRAM'MA-RYE, n.
Sorcery.
GRAM-MAT'IC-AL, a. [Fr.]
- Belonging to grammar; as, a grammatical rule.
- According to the rules of grammar. We say, a sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical.
GRAM-MAT'IC-AL-LY, adv.
According to the principles and rules of grammar; as, to write or speak grammatically.
Quality of being grammatical, or according to the rules of grammar.
GRAM-MAT'IC-AS-TER, n. [L]
A low grammarian; a pretender to a knowledge of grammar; a pedant. Petty.
GRAM-MAT'I-CIZE, v.t.
To render grammatical. Johnson.
GRAM-MAT'I-CIZ-ED, pp.
Rendered grammatical.
GRAM'MA-TIST, n.
A pretender to a knowledge of grammar. H. Tooke.
See TREMOLITE.
GRAM'PLE, n.
A crab-fish.