grass bleaching (grasble"ching)

Bleaching by exposing the article to be bleached to the sunlight by spreading it out on the gra . Gra -bleaching is occasionally used in the clearing proce for chintzes, cretonnes, . Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 207. See gra -hand. ment. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 510. French gra , the sainfoin, Onobrychis sativa . - Gra of Parna us, the common name for species of the genus Parna ia, belonging to the Saxifragaceæ . - Gra of the Andes, the Arrhenatherum arenaceum , a stout but soft perennial gra of Europe, naturalized in the United States, and cultivated for pasturage and hay. - Hare's tail gra , the common name of a species of gra , Lagu rus ovatus , inhabiting the Mediterranean region and Ca. nary islands, and found as far north as the isle of Guern blance to a hare's tail. See Lagurus . Holy gra es The oblong, woolly panicles bear resem Hierochloë.- Hungarian gra . Same as Bengal gra . - Lyme gra . See Elymus. - Mesquite-gra . Same as grama - gra .- Spanish gra . Same as esparto. - To go to gra . (a) To be turned out to pasture, as a horse, especially one no longer fit for work. The sturdy steed now goes to gra , and up they hang his saddle. Beau. and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, iv. 5. (b) To go into retirement; rusticate: commonly used in the imperative, with the contemptuous force of "Get out!' To fall violently; be knocked down, as as a pugilist in the grasple (gråsp'les), a . [ grasp + -le .] In- [Slang.] (c) To die; go to the grave. [Western U. S.] (d) capable of grasping; relaxed; weak. From my grasple hand Drop friendship's precious pearls, like hour-gla sand. Cole ridge, On a Friend. ring: as, he tripped and went to gra . [Slang. To gra . (a) At pasture; on a pasture range: used figura tively. Also at gra . If the worst come to the worst - I'll turn my Wife to Gra . Congreve, Way of the World, iii. 18. (6) In mining, to the surface: as, send the ore to gra . To let the gra grow under one's feet (or, formerly, on one's heelt), to loiter; idle; act very slowly. gra (grås), n. [ gras , gres , sometimes transposed gers , gyrs , Sc. girs , græs , trans- posed gærs = OS. gras = OFries. gers , gres = D. gras = MLG. gras , gres = OHG. gras , cras = MHG. G. gras , gra , herbage (appli- Maistre e, since I went, no gra e hath growne on my hele, cable to any small plant), = Icel. gras = Sw. gräs = Dan. græs, gra , = Goth. gras, the first growth of corn, etc., a plant or herb; akin to MHG. gruose, first growth, = MD. groese, the green sod, turf, and prob. to green1 and grow. There is no proof of a connection with L. grā men, gra (see gramineous ), or with Gr. χορτός, gra .] 1. In general, herbage; the plants on which cattle and other beasts feed or pasture; the verdurous covering of the soil. In popular use the name is applied to a great variety of plants which are in no way related to gra es technically so called. See def. 2. And forth she went priuely Unto the Parke was faste by, All softe walkende on the gras . Gower , Conf. Amant., iv. But maister Tristram Trustie here maketh no speede. Udall, Roister Doister, iv. 5. Mr. Tulkinghorn... is so good as to act as my solicitor, and gra don't grow under his feet , I can tell ye. Dickens , Bleak House, xxxiii. It was a rule with these indefatigable mi ionaries never to let the gra grow under their feet . Scarce had they, therefore, alighted at the inn and deposited their saddlebags, than they made their way to the residence of the Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 297. governor.