Grade

grad, n. A step or degree in any series, rank, or order; in a road or railroad, the rate of ascent or descent; a graded ascending or descending portion of a road: a gradient. (Stock-breeding.) The result of cro ing a native stock with a better breed. — v. To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progre ive ascent, as the line of a canal or road. [F., L. gradus, a degree, grad i, gre us, to step, go.] — At grade. eve, tSrm Tn, ice Odd, tone, 6r 257 GRAFF 239 At the same level. — Down a. A descent. — Up g. An ascent. — Gra'dient, a. Moving by steps; walking; rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination. — n. Rate of ascent or descent in a road, etc.; grade; a part of a road which slopes upward or downward. [L. gradiens, -dientis, p. pr. of grad i.] — Grada'tion, n. Act of progre ing by regular steps; state of being graded, or arranged'in ranks; any degree in an order or series; gradual blending of "one tint with another. [OF.; L. gradatio, ascent by steps.] — Gradatory, grad'a-to-rY, a. Proceeding step by step; gradual; adapted for progre ive motion. — n. A step from the cloisters into the church. — Grad'ual, -u-al, a. Proceeding by steps or degrees; — progre ive; slow. [L. gradiens, p. pr. of grad i.'] n. An order of steps; an ancient book of hymns, some of which were chanted on the steps (gradus) of the pulpit. — Grad'ually, adv. In a gradual manner; step by step. — Grad'uate, -u-at, v. To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals; to admit to a certain grade or degree, esp. to an academical degree; to prepare gradually. — v. To pa to, or to receive, an academical degree to pa by degrees, change gradually. — n. ine admitted to an academical degree. — a. Arranged by succe ive steps or degrees; graduated.— Gradua'tion, n. Act of graduating; art of dividing into degrees or definite parts; marks on an instrument indicating degrees, etc. — Grad'uator, n. One who graduates; an instrument for dividing any line into regular intervals. — Gra'dus, n. A dictionary of prosody. [Abbr. L. gradus ad Parna um, a step to Parna us.] Graff, graf Graft, graft, n. A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree portion of a tree growing from such shoot. — v. Te insert, as a cutting from one tree in a branch or stem of another; to implant or incorporate, as a bud upon a stem. —v. To insert scions from one tree into another. [OF. graffe, grafe, a pencil, F. greffe, a graft, scion, its resemblance to a cut slip; L. graphiolum, style (for writing), graft, graphium, Gr. graph i on, style, fr. graphein, to write.] — Graft'er, n.