grandpapa

[English grand, and papa. (q. v.).] A grandfather (q. v.). *grand-pâunch, s. [Eng. grand , and paunch . A greedy fellow, a glutton, a gourmand. "Our grand paunches and riotous persons." - P. Holland pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pět, IMG:content-0699.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A barn, a granary. "Their teeming flocks, and granges full." Milton: Comus, 175. 2. A farmhouse or farmstead standing away at a distance from other houses or a village; applied to the residence of the bailiff of a feudal, the dwelling of a yeoman, . "Till thou return, the Court I will exchange For some poor cottage, or some country grange ." Drayton: Lady Geraldine to the Earl of Surrey. *3. The farmhouse or farmstead of a religious house, where the crops from the ground attached to the monastery and also the tithes and rent paid in kind were stored: one of the monks, called the prior of the grange, was deputed to keep the ac count of the farm. "An officer out for to ride, To sen her granges and her bernes wide." Chaucer: C. Т. , 12,996. 4. A combination, society, or a ociation of farm. ers for the promotion of the interests of agriculture, by abolishing the restraints and burdens imposed on it by railway and other companies, and by get ting rid of the system of middlemen or agents between the producer and the consumer. *grange, v . t . [GRANGE, 8.] Apparently, to farm. "They presumed thus to grange and truck causes." Birch : Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth , 1. 354.