granitel, granitelle (granitel)

[Dim. of granite.] Same as pegmatite. granite-porphyry (gran'it-pôr fi-ri), n. A rock consisting of a fine-grained, holocrystalline base, through which the ordinary constituents of granite are scattered in more or le regular crystalline forms. It is closely connected with and Old men i' the house, of fifty, call me grannam . Beau, and Fl . , Scornful Lady, iv. 1. Ghosts never walk till after midnight, if I may believe my grannam . Fletcher (and Mas singer ?), Lovers' Progre , iv. 2 granny (gran'i), n.; pl. grannies (-iz). [A childish abbr. of grannam, grandam, or grandmother.] 1. A grandmother; an old woman. [Colloq. and low.] "Fairly good holy images thou hast here, granny ; keep them in good order," said I to the old woman. Harper's Mag., LXXVIIL 376. 2. A duck, the south-southerly or old-wife. More fully, old granny. [New Jersey, U. S.] granny's-knot, granny-knot (gran'iz-, gran'inot), n. Naut., a knot differing from a reef or square knot in having the second part cro ed the wrong way: derided by seamen because it is difficult to untie when jammed. grano (grä'nō), n.; pl. gran i (-nē). [It., lit. a grain, L. granum, grain: see grain1.] A money of account in Malta, equal to about one twelfth of an English penny.