grandolt (gran do)

[L., hail.] The treadle of an egg. See extract under gallature. gran do2t, n. See grandee. grandpa (grand'pä), n. A colloquial abbreviation of grandpapa. grandpapa (grand'pa-pä"), n. A familiar term for grandfather. grandparent (grand parent), n. The parent of a parent: correlative to grandchild. grandparent age (grand' par" en-tāj), n. [ Certain properties of the law of frequency of error were also applied to family likene in eye colour, with results that gave by calculation the total number of light-eyed children in families differently grouped according to their parentage and grandparent age . Nature, XXXIX. 299. grand-pauncht (grand' pânch), n. A greedy fellow; a gormand. For their teeming flocks and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan. Milton , Comus, 1. 175. 21. A farming establishment, including the farm-buildings and granary, attached to a feudal manor or to a religious house, where, in addition to its own crops, the grain paid as rent and tithes was stored. At the moated grange resides this dejected Mariana. Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. A grange , in its original signification, meant a farmhouse of a monastery, from which it was always at some little distance. One of the monks was usually appointed to inspect the accounts of the farm. He was called the prior of the grange . Malone . 3. A farm, with its dwelling-house, stables, byres, barns, etc.; particularly, a house or farm at a distance from other houses or villages; the dwelling of a yeoman or gentleman farmer. He... ledde hym forth to lauacrum lex-dei, a graunge , Is sixe myle other seuene by-syde the newe markett. Piers Plowman (C), xx. 71. What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice; My house is not a grange . Shak ., Othello, i. 1. Fill him with joy, and win him a friend to ye, And make this little grange seem a large empire Let out with home contents. Fletcher ( and another ?), Prophete , v And from the distant grange there comes The clatter of the thresher's flail. Bryant, Song of the Sower. 4. In the United States, a lodge of the order of "Patrons of Husbandry," a secret a ocia grange tion for the promotion of the interests of agriculture. The special objects of the order are the removal of the restraints and burdens imposed on agriculture by the commercial cla es, the railroad and canal companies, etc., and the avoidance of the expense caused middlemen or agents who intervene between the producer and the consumer. The a ociation originated at Washington in 1867, and has spread whole coun 2598 gran gusto (grän göstō). [It., lit. 'great rel- ish': see grand grand and gusto.] 1. In painting , something in a picture picture very extraordinary and calculated to excite surprise.-2.1 surprise.-2. In music , any try, but is most numerous in the northwestern States, There are local and State granges and a national grange. high-wrought composition. Women are admitted to membership. no is and Wisconsin, in the Great West as in Europe. T. Hughes, quoted in Hinton's Eng. Radical Leaders, p. 119. The organization therefore is maintained for social and economic purposes, and no grange can a ume any politi cal or sectarian functions. Amer. Cyc., granget (granj), v. t. [ as revenue or taxes. This ruffianry of causes I am daily more and more acquainted with, and see the manner of dealing, which cometh of the Queen's straitne to give these women, whereby they presume thus to grange and truck causes. Birch, Queen Elizabeth, I. 354. granger (gran'jer), n. and a. [Formerly also graunger; Unle e this proportion and quantitie of mucke be gathered, plaine it is, that the graunger or maister of husbandrie hath not done his part, but failed in littering of his Holland, tr. of Pliny, xviii. 23. cattell. 2. A member of a farmers' grange for the advancement of the interests of agriculture. See grange, n., 4. The time has now come when the Granger can be looked critical justice. upon as a phenomenon of the past, and treated in a spirit C. F. Adams , Jr., N. A. Rev., CXX. 395. 3. A farmer; a countryman. [Humorous, U.S.] II. a. Of or pertaining to a grange or to grangers; caused or promoted by grangers: as, the granger movement. The rash granger laws of more than a decade ago firmly established the principle and the right of extreme State supervision. Contemporary Rev. , LL. 700. The Granger cases, six cases decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1876 (94 U. S., 113, 155, 165, 179, 180, 181), the principal ones being Munn vs. Illinois, and Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co. vs. Iowa: so called because they grew out of certain State statutes pa ed in the interest of the grangers, regulating grain elevator tolls and the charges of warehousemen and common carriers. The court sustained the constitutionality of these statutes, affirming the common-law doctrine that when private property is devoted to a public use it is subject to public regulation, and holding that this right is not affected by the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, which ordains that no State shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due proce of law." grangerism1 (grān'jér-izm), n. [ grangerism2 (grān'jėr-izm), n. [ Grangerism, as the innocent may need to be told, is the pernicious vice of cutting plates and title-pages out of many books to illustrate one book. Saturday Review , Jan. 29, 1883, p. 123.