grading scraper

A large two-handled shovel, drawn by horses, and used as an earth-scoop for raising and removing loosened earth. It is used in road-making, scooping out beds of canals in certain situations, ., when the soil is suitable, and the distance where it is to be deposited is not too great. [HORSE-SHOVEL.] boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, IMG:content-0675.png:[blocks in formation] (1) A service-book, containing the hymns or prayers to be sung by the choir, so called from certain short phrases after the Epistle sung in grad i bus (upon the steps of the altar). chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; (2) That part of the service of the ma in the Roman Catholic Church which immediately follows the Epistle, and is sung as the deacon returns to the steps of the altar. Eccles . & Ch . Hist .: Fifteen psalms, from Ps. cxx. to Ps. cxxxiv. inclusive; so called because they were formerly chanted from the steps of the choir, more especially during Advent. [SONGS OF DEGREES.] *grad-u-ā-lē, s. GRADUAL, B. 2. [Low Latin.) The same as *grăd-u-al-I-ty, s. [Eng. gradual; -ity.] The quality or state of being gradual; regular progre ion or gradation. "Which while some ascribe unto the mixture of the elements, others to the graduality of opacity and light, they have left our endeavors to grope them out by twilight."-Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. vi., ch. x. grad-u-al-ly, adv. [Eng. gradual; -ly.] 1. In a gradual manner, by degrees; step by step, slowly; in regular gradations. "Already the designs of the court began gradually to unfold themselves." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. *2. In degree. "Human reason doth not only gradually , but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes."Grew. grăd-u-al-ne , s. [Eng. gradual; -ne .] The quality or state of being gradual; graduality. "The gradualne of this movement and the obscurity which enwrapped its beginnings."-M. Arnold: Study of Celtic Literature , p. 94. *grăd-u-and, s. [As if from the gerundive participle of an imaginary Low Lat. word graduor . So in the Scottish universities there is a word mag i strand , from a Low Lat. verb magistror .] One who has pa ed all the examinations for a degree, but has not yet been capped.