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t. [ We are to take notice of the continued peace and plenty with which not only these three years, restrictively considered, but also for many years together, both before and after them, New England was so marvellously gratiated. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 215. Every man has tastes and propensities, which he is disposed to gratify at a risk and expense which people of different temperaments and habits think extravagant. Macaulay, Utilitarian Theory of Government. Where is the man who does not persuade himself when he gratifies his own curiosity he does so for the sake of his womankind? Mi Yonge, Unknown to History, ix. 2. To requite or reward voluntarily; also, to give a gratuity to. [Archaic.] Some carrying about water in leather bagges, giuing it to all, and demanding nothing for the same, except any voluntarily gratific them. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 307. I know not how to gratify your kindne ; wherefore, pray, as a token of my respects to you, accept of this small mite. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , ii. He wished to have them first taught swimming, and proposed to gratify me handsomely if I would teach them. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 86. =Syn. 1. Gratify, Indulge, Humor. To gratify is a more positive act than to indulge or to humor. Gratify is most often used in a good sense; indulge, most often in a bad one. Humor expre es an easy or good-natured compliance or management, ordinarily neither weak nor evil: as, to humor a person's eccentricities. Not food, and tools, and clothing, and decorations only, gratify the love of acquisition. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 515. Nature will sometimes indulge herself with a leap, but as a rule her march is slow and gradual. Darwin, Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 395. To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Milton , Sonnets, viii. gratifyingly (grat'i-fi-ing-li), adv . In a grat i- fying or pleasing manner. gratillityt (gra-til'i-ti), n. In the extract, a hu- morous perversion of gratuity . [Unique.] Sir And . I sent thee sixpence for thy leman; Hadst it? Clo. I did impeticos thy gratillity . gratingly (gra'ting-li), adv . In a grating man- ner; harshly; offensively. Gratiola (gra-tiō-là), n. [NL., named in allusion to its supposed medicinal virtues, gratia , grace: see grace .] A genus of low scrophularia ceo us herbs, containing about 20 species, widely distributed in temperate re- gions, 12 being native in the United States. They have opposite leaves and small solitary axillary flowers. The hedge-hy op, G. officinal is , of Europe and northern Asia, has a bitter, acrid taste, and is employed in medicine as a drastic purgative in the treatment of dropsy. gratiosa (grå-ti-ō'sä), a . In music , same as grazioso . gratiosot, n. Same as gracioso . gratioust, a . An obsolete spelling of gracious . Spenser . gratis (gratis), adv . [= D. G. Dan. Sw. F. gra- tis Sp. grátis = Pg. It. gratis , gratis , contr. of earlier gratiis , for nothing, without reward, lit. by favor or kindne , abl. pl. of gra- tia , favor: see grace .] For nothing; freely; without pay: as, to perform service gratis . The price, after the first four numbers, which were given away gratis , was a penny. A. Dobson, Int. to Steele, p. xxvii. Appearing gratis. See appear . gratis (gratis), a . [ gratis , adv .] Gratuitous. [An inaccurate use.] grace .] The state or quality of being grateful or thankful; a warm and friendly feeling in re- sponse to a favor or favors received; thankful- A feeling of gratitude , or of resentment, tends to be J. Sully , Outlines of Psychol., p. 484. =Syn. See grateful . grattoir (gra-twor'), n. [F., a scraper, grat- ter , scratch, scrape: see grate1 .] In archæol., an instrument of the stone age, of chipped flint or other stone, shaped to one or more even and short edges, presumed to have been used for finishing other stone implements and ve els; a scraper. 300 hatchets, 58 perçoirs, 4000 grattoirs , blades, knives and saws, 1426 arrow heads with broad cutting points. Amer . Antiquarian , IX. 341. gratuitous (gra-tū'i-tus), a. [= F. gratuit = Sp. gratuito = Pg. It. gratuito , gratuit us , that is done without pay, free, spontaneous, gratia , favor, grat us , showing favor: see grace , and cf. gratis .] 1. Freely bestowed or ob- tained; costing nothing to the recipient. The city was gradually crowded with a populace... tempted with the cheap or gratuitous distribution of 2. Unnece ary; not required; not warranted by circumstances or reason; uncalled for: as, Gratuitous conveyance or deed. See conveyance . =Syn. 1. Unpaid, unpurchased. - 2. Unwarranted, un- nece ary, groundle . gratuitously (gra-tū'i-tus-li), adv . 1. In a gratuitous manner; without cost to the recipi- ent, freely. Distributions of corn.. frequently made to the peo- ple, either gratuitously or at a very low price. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 145. gratuitousne (gra-tū'i-tus-nes), n. The qual- ity or condition of being gratuitous. gratuity (gra-tū'i-ti), n.; pl. gratuities (-tiz). Pococke , Description of the East, I. 10. Promising them their whole arrears, constant pay, and a present gratuity . Ludlow, Memoirs, II. 330. = Syn. Gift , Donation , etc. See present. gratulancet (grat'u-lans), n. [ gratulan (t) + -ce.] Pecuniary gratification; a fee, bribe, or bonus. Some odd disburse, some bribe, some gratulance , Which makes you lock up leisure. gratulant (grat'u-lant), a. [L. gratulan(t-)s, ppr. of gratulari , wish one joy: see gratulate .] Expre ing pleasure or joy; congratulatory. [Rare.] The white-robed multitude of slaughtered saints At Heaven's wide-opened portals gratulant Receive some martyred Patriot. IMG:content-2607.png:[blocks in formation] gratulet, v. t. or i. [ gratu- lari , wish one joy: see gratulate .] To wish joy to; congratulate. Where's or at our Higgen with his gratuling speech now, In all our names? Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, ii. 1. Graucalus (gra'ka-lus), n. [NL. (Cuvier, 1817, but first in Linnæus, 1735), appar. a perversion of L. graculus , a jackdaw, grackle: see Gracu- lus , etc.] A A Cuvier Cuvierian genus of campophagine birds. Also called Ceblepyris and Coracina . graunt-merc it, interj. erj . An earlier form of gra- mercy. Chaucer. grauwacke, n. See graywacke . gravamen (gra-va' men), n.; pl. gravamina (-vam'i-nä). [LL., trouble, physical inconve- nience, lit. burden, gravare , weigh down, nience. load, burden, gravis , heavy: see graves .] 1. The burden or chief weight; that part of an ac- cusation which weighs most heavily against the accused; the substantial cause of an action at law; ground or burden of complaint in general. It is not safe nor charitable to extend the gravamen and punishment beyond the instances the apostles make. Under the first of these heads [the right of presentation by the lower house of Convocation of their own and the church's grievances to the upper house] Bishop Gibson includes the representations made by the clergy, from the very earliest accounts of the proceedings in Convocation, by the names of Gravamina and Reform and a. Canon Trevor, The Convocations of the Two Provinces [(1852), p. 141. Cole ridge, Destiny of Nations. gratulate (grat'ū-lāt), v .; pret. and pp. gratu- lated , ppr. gratulating . [ gratulatus , pp. of gratulari (> Sp. Pg. gratular = It. (refl.) gra- tular = OF. gratuler = G. gratuliren = Dan. gratulere = Sw. gratulera ) , wish one joy, con- gratulate, grat us , pleasing, agreeable: see gravamentt, n. Same as gravamen . grace, grates. Cf. congratulate .] I. trans. 1. To congratulate; expre joy to or on account of. [Now rare.] Hail, noblest Romans! The most worthy consul, I gratulate your honour. B. Jonson, Cat i line, iii. 1. Young Benjie (Child's Ballads, IL 303). Let us haste To gratulate his conquest. gravel (grāv), v . t .; pret. graved , pp. graved or Mas singer, Unnatural Combat, ii. 1. graven , ppr. graving . [ graven (pret. grof , The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary dig, delve, bury, also carve, engrave (also in comp. agrafan , inscribe, begrafan , bury), = OS. graves (grav), grave3 (grav), a . and n. [F. grave IMG:content-2609.png:[ocr errors] in deriv. graf , a grave) = D. MLG. LG. graven , dig, delve (in comp. D. MLG . be graven , bury), OHG. grab an, MHG. G. graben , dig, also cut, carve, engrave (G. in comp. eingraben , engrave, be graben , bury), = Icel. grafa , dig, also carve, engrave, bury, Sw. gräfva , dig (in comp. begrafva , bury), = Dan. grave , dig (in comp. be grave , bury), = Goth. gra- ban, dig (in comp. bigraban , surround with a trench). The Gr. γράφειν , scratch, scrape, graze, later draw, write, inscribe (see graphic , gram2 , grammar , etc.), is supposed to be akin. In the sense 'engrave' the E. word has merged with F. graver (> D. graveren = Dan. gravere = Sw. graver a , engrave) = Sp. grabar = Pg. gravar , gravare , grave, engrave, of Teut. origin, and not from the Gr. word; cf. engravel . The Ir. grafaim , I write, inscribe, scrape, W. crafu , scrape, scratch, are prob. of E. origin. Hence grave2, q. v.] 1. To dig; delve. [Now only prov. Eng.] Of bod i wente the i bar, withoute any wede, & hadde grave on the ground many grete cavys. Alexander and Dindimus , 1. 6. And next the shryne a pit than doth she grave . Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 678. 21. To bury; entomb. Hire metynge sholde bee Ther [where] kyng Nynus was graven under a tree. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 785. In that Feld ben many Tombes of Cristene Men; for there ben man ye Pilgrymes graven . Mandeville, Travels, p. 93. IMG:content-2610.png:[blocks in formation] Swords grave no name on the long-memoried rock But mo shall hide it. Lowell, Voyage to Vinland. 4. To carve; sculpture; form or shape by cut- ting with a tool: as, to grave an image. And [they] graueden a greate ston a God as it were, I-corue [carved) after a Kyng full craftie of werk. A lisa under of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 569. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Ex. xx. 4. 5t. To make an impre ion upon; impre deeply. For ay with gold men may the herte grave Of hym that set is upon coveitise. important, serious, etc.,= barometer, barytone , etc.), important (see guru ), avy (see heavy, Skt. guru , heavy, Goth. kaurs , heavy, ty, gravous, grief , grievel , vel , aggravate , aggredge, aggrieve , etc.] etc I. a. 11. Having weight; heavy; ponderous. grave (grä've), a. [It., heavy, slow, grave: see grave3 .] In music, slow; solemn: noting His shield grave and great. 2. Solemn; sober; serious: opposed to light or pa ages to be so rendered. jovial : as, a man of a grave deportment. They were aged and graue men, and of much wisedome and experience in th' affaires of the world. IMG:content-2611.png:[blocks in formation] grave-clothes (grāv'klōwHz), n . pl . The clothes or dre in which a dead body is interred; cere- ments, in the wider sense. [As used in John xi. 44, properly cerements in the restricted sense. See cerement .] Like a ghost he seem'd whose grave clothes were unbound. Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 20. grave-digger (grāv'diger), n . 1. One whose occupation is the digging of graves.-2. A bee- tle of the genus Necrophorus : so called from its habit of burying dead bodies. Also named sex- ton. See cut under burying - beetle .-3. A dig- ger-wasp, as of the genus Sphex , which digs holes in the clay for its eggs, with which it IMG:content-2612.png:[blocks in formation] 5. In acoustics , deep; low in pitch: opposed to acute. Grave accent. See accent. - Grave harm on- ic. See harmonic . - Grave movement, in music , a slow or solemn movement. =Syn. 2. Grave , Serious , Solemn ; staid, sage, sedate, thoughtful, demure. The first three words the mood, look, manner, etc., that are natural when men have considerable range of meaning. Serious may expre are not in the opposite or gay and jocular mood. Grave generally goes beyond this, implying an especial serious- ne , with perhaps especial reason for it. Solemn , start- ing from the idea of religious, covers anything that in- cludes the idea of impre ivene or awe: as, a solemn appeal. See sober . On him fell, Altho' a grave and staid God-fearing man, Yet lying thus inactive, doubt and gloom. beach; prob. of Celtic origin: ef. Bret. grouan , gravel, Corn.grow , gravel, sand, W. gro , pebbles. Cf. also Skt. grāvan , a stone, rock.] 1. Coarse sand; a ma of pebbles or of pebbles and sand mixed; stone in a ma of small irregular frag- ments.-2. Specifically, in geol ., the rolled and water-worn material formed from fragments of rock under the combined influence of atmo- spheric agencies and currents of water. Most gravel consists in large part of pebbles of quartz and crys- talline rock, mixed with sand in which quartz greatly pre- dominates, because quartz forms a large part of the most widely distributed rocks of the earth's crust, and is not subject to any chemical change, not decomposing like Tennyson, Enoch Arden, feldspar and mica, but being only broken up into smaller and smaller fragments; so that there may be in the same No childish play bed components of the gravel of every size, from that of the boulder several feet in diameter down to the grain of sand not so large as a pin's head. IMG:content-2613.png:[blocks in formation] = Goth. grab a , fem., a trench), grafan (= grave (grav), v. t.; pret. and pp. graved , ppr. Goth. grab an , etc.), dig: see gravel , v.] 1. An excavation in the earth, now especially one in IMG:content-2614.png:[blocks in formation] graving. [More correctly greave ; graves , q. v.] To clean (a ship's bottom) by burning or scraping off seaweeds, barnacles, etc., and paying it over with pitch. Southward of Celebes is situated a little Iland, where Sir Francis Drake graued his Shippe. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 539. Having reached the brink of the lake, he found there a little boat made of fat beef, and well graved with suet. O'Curry, Anc. Ir., II. xxiii. graves (grāv), n. [ grave , graef , D. graaf = OFries. grēva , NFries. greafa = MLG. grēve, grave , LG. greve , gräve , grebe (cf. Icel. greifi = Sw. grefve = Dan. greve , greevel ) = OHG. *grāfjó, grāvo , krāvjo , krāvo, garābo, gerabo , MHG. grāve , græve , G. graf (ML. grafio , gravio, graphio ), a count, prefect, governor, overseer (in OHG. also a surgeon): a name ap- plied to various executive and judicial officers, and later as a title of rank; origin uncertain, the forms being indeterminate and their rela- tion to the equiv. AS. gerefa (> E. reerel ) doubt- ful. In one view, the word is derived from a lost verb represented by a deriv. in Goth. gagrefts , gagreifts , a command; in another, the Teut. forms are derived, through the ML. graphio , in the lit. sense 'a writer,' hence 'a notary, public officer, etc., like ML. graphiarius , F. greffier , a notary (see graff2 , greffier ), from Gr. γράφειν , write (see gravel , graphic ); and other deriva- tions are suggested. In any case, the AS. gerefa IMG:content-2615.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2616.png:[blocks in formation] gravel in e , n. See gravel lin e . graveling (grav'el-ing), n. [Cf. OF. gravele , a minnow.] The parr or young salmon. Thomp- son. Also gravelling , gravel in . [Local, Irish.] gravel-laspring (grav'el-las" pring), n. The smolt or young salmon of the first year. [Lo- cal, Eng.] gravel lin e , gravel in e (grav'el-i-nes), n. [ gravelly , gravely2 , + -ne .] The state of be- ing gravelly, or of abounding with gravel. gravel-plant (grav'el-plant), n. of the trailing arbutus, Epigæa repens . gravel root (grav'el-röt), n. 1. The joe-pye weed or trumpetweed of the United States, Eu- patorium purpureum , a tall and stout composite with whorled leaves and purplish flowers. Its root is used as a domestic remedy in various ailments of the urinary organs.-2. The horse- balm or richweed, Collins on i a Can a dens is . gravel-stone (grav'el-ston), n . In pathol ., one of the small concretions constituting gravel. gravelyl (grāv'li), adv . [ graves +-ly2.] In a grave manner; soberly; seriously. The light and carele livery that it wears Than settled age his sables and his weeds, Importing health and gravene . IMG:content-2617.png:[blocks in formation] The butter, which was more remote from the leather, graveyard (grāv'yärd), n . A yard for graves; was yellow and something graveolent , yet it was edible. Boyle , Works, IV. 588. graver (gra'ver), n. [ graver , grafer , gra- fere , græfere , grafere , a graver, carver, engraver (= D. graver = G. gräber , digger, = Sw. gräfvare = Dan. graver , sexton), grafan . grave, carve: see gravel . Cf. F. graveur (> D. G. graveur = Sw. Dan. gravör ; cf. Sp. grab a- dor = Pg . gravador ), engraver; from the corre- sponding verb.] 1. One who carves or en- graves; one whose profe ion it is to cut letters or figures in metal, stone, or other hard mate- rial: formerly applied also to a sculptor. What I formerly presented you in writing, having.. now somewhat dre ed by the help of the Graver and the R. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 326). IMG:content-2618.png:[blocks in formation] gravic (grav'ik), a . [Irreg. gravis , heavy (see grave3 ), + -ic .] Pertaining to or causing gravitation: as, gravic forces; gravic attrac- tion. [Rare.] gravid (grav'id), a . [L. gravid us , pregnant, gravis , heavy, burdened: see graves .] 11. Burdened; laden; made heavy. To ease and crown their gravid piety, Grants their request by his a enting eye. graves1, greaves (grāvz, grēvz), n . pl . [Prob. gravimeter (gra-vim'e-ter), n. [F. gravimè- tre; gravis , heavy, + metrum , measure. of Scand. origin. Cf. Sw.grefvar = OSw.gref- Cf. barometer .] 1. An instrument for deter- war , dirt, Sw. dial. grevar , pl., = Dan. grever = MLG. greve, grive , LG. greve OHG. griupo, griebo , MHG. griube , griebe , G. griebe , griefe , the refuse of tallow, lard, fat, etc.; appar.connected with AS. greófa (only in two glo es, spelled greoua ), a pot (L. olla ). Cf. gravy .] The refuse parts of animal fat gathered from the melting- pots and made up into cakes for dogs' meat. In Great Britain such cakes are called crack- lings , and the material is often called scraps . Graves (which are the sediment of tallow melted for the making of candles), cut into pieces, are an excellent ground-bait for Barbel, etc. I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 168, note. A farmer in Surrey used graves from the Tallow-Chand A. Hunter, Georgical E ays, VI. 229. Graves2 (grav), n. [F., Pointe de Graves , a viticultural district in Gironde, France.] 1. An important cla of Bordeaux wines of the Gironde district, including such red wines as the Château Margaux, Château Laffitte, and Château La Tour, and, among the white wines, the Sauternes.-2. A general commercial name for white Bordeaux wines of second or third quality of the Gironde district on the left bank of the Garonne. These wines are usually some- what sweet, and admit of being kept a long time. Graves's disease. Same as exophthalmic goiter (which see, under exophthalmic ). gravestone (grāv's ton), n. [ grafsteen = G. grab stein = Sw. grafsten = Dan. gravsten ); grave2 + stone .] A stone laid over a grave, or erected near it (commonly at its head), in memory of the dead. IMG:content-2619.png:[blocks in formation] Sen thy body beryed shalbe, This mirre will I giffe to thi grauyng . IMG:content-2620.png:[blocks in formation] about 385.1 inches (978 centimeters) per second at the sea- level and the equator, while at the poles it is 387.1 inches. Gravity is a little le on mountains than at the sea-level, in the proportion of a diminution of one thousandth part at every two miles of elevation. There are also other slight variations of gravity, from which the figure of the gravity is in exce where the radius vector of the geoid Be rations. geoid (which see) can be calculated. Generally speaking, is in exce of that of the mean spheroid. [The words gravity and gravitation have been more or le confound- ed; but the most careful writers use gravitation for the attracting force, and gravity for the terrestrial phenome- two components the gravitation and the centrifugal force. non of weight or downward acceleration which has for its The centrifugal force at the equator is of gravity. It is everywhere exerted in the plane of the meridian at right angles to the direction of the celestial pole. The direction of gravitation in middle latitudes is inclined None need a guide, by sure attraction led, And strong impulsive gravity of head. 2. Solemnity of deportment or character; se- date ne of demeanor; seriousne . Great Cato there, for gravity renowned. Dryden. When the French stage came to be reformed by Cardi- nal Richelieu, those long harangues were introduced to comply with the gravity of a churchman. Dryden, E ay on Dram. Poesy. His witticisms, and his tables of figures, constitute the only parts of his work which can be perused with perfect gravity. Macaulay , Sadler's Ref. Refuted. We listen in public with the gravity of augurs to what Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 379. 3. Importance; significance; dignity. Length therefore is a thing which the grauitie and weight of such actions [prayer] doth require. IMG:content-2621.png:[blocks in formation] To stew in one's own gravyt, to be bathed in sweat. Compare to fry in one's own grease, under grease . gray, grey (grā), a . and n. [I. a. græg = OFries. grē =D. graauw = MLG. grawe , gra , grau , LG. grau = OHG. grā , MHG. gra (graw-), G. grau = Icel. grar = Sw. grå = Dan. graa , gray. Not con- nected with G. greis , a., gray (with age), greis , n., an old man (see grise4 , grizzle1 ), nor with Gr. γραῖος , old, nor with γραῖα , an old woman. II. n. graye , grey, a badger; from the adj.] I. a. 1. Of a color between white and black, having little or no positive color, and only moderate luminosity; of the color of black hair which has begun to turn white, as seen at some distance. Is na your hounds in my cellar Eating white meal and gray? See acceleration (b). - Center of gravity. See center1. - Gravity cell, or gravity battery, in elect . See cell , 8. -Line of direction of gravity, the line drawn through the center of gravity of a body in the direction in which gravity tends to move it; the line along which the cen- ter of gravity would begin to fall if the body were free. - Specific gravity, the ratio of the weight of a given bulk of any substance to that of a standard substance. The substance taken as the standard is water for solids and liquids, air or hydrogen for gases. The weights of bodies being proportional to their ma es, it follows that the specific gravity of a body is equivalent to its relative density, and the term density has nearly displaced specific gravity in scientific works. As long as the term specific gravity was in use, water at 62° F. was taken as the stan- dard in England; when the term density is used, water at its maximum density (4° C. or 39.2° F.) is the standard. If great accuracy is required, corrections must be made for temperature and for the buoyancy of the air. Thus, if we take equal bulks of water, silver, and platinum, and weigh them, the silver will be found to be 10.5 times and the platinum 21.4 times heavier than the water; and reck- oning the specific gravity of water as unity, the specific gravity of silver is said to be 10.5, and that of platinum A common method of obtaining the specific gravity of solids is to weigh the body in air, then in pure distilled water, and divide the weight in air by the lo of weight 2. Having gray hairs; gray-headed. in water, the result being the specific gravity of the body. There are, however, numerous other ways of obtaining this relation, as by the use of the pycnometer, the hydrometer (which see), etc. See gravity - solution . The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its density to that of some standard substance, generally water. Clerk Maxwell , Heat, p. 82. Specific-gravity beads or bulbs, small hollow spheres, usually of gla , used in determining the specific gravity of a liquid. If a number of them, each having its specific gravity marked on it, be thrown into the liquid, that one which just floats gives the required specific gravity, the others either sinking or floating. - Specific-gravity bot- tle or flask, a pycnometer. Lord Randal (A) (Child's Ballads, II. 26). Yon gray lines Thus sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals gray . Milton , Lycidas, 1. 187. When Life's Ash-Wednesday comes about, And my head's gray with fires burnt out. "A year hence, a year hence." "We shall both be gray .' Who pious gathered each tradition gray That floats your solitary wastes along. IMG:content-2622.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2623.png:[blocks in formation] from one another the different minerals of which rocks are composed, by taking advantage of their differences of specific gravity. The method is analogous to the proce of ore-dre ing, which is a separation of minerals differing in specific gravity in the large way, the fluid used being water. The e ential difference, however, is that the fluid used by the litholo- gist is varied in specific gravity, by dilution, to just the desired conditions, while the water, of course, remains al ways the same when used by the ore-dre er. The idea of using a gravity-solution in lithological research origi- nated with Thoulet in 1879. The fluid which he used was a solution of the iodide of mercury in iodide of pota ium, having a density of 2.77 at 57° F. Several other solutions having a higher specific gravity have since that time been used. See specific gravity , under gravity. gravoust, a . [= Sp. Pg. It. gravoso , gra- vosus , equiv. to L. gravis , heavy, weighty, grave: see graves , and cf. grievous .] Weighty; important. IMG:content-2624.jpg:[blocks in formation] is darker a French gray or slate-gray results, which needs the addition of red to give lavender gray, although the latter appears bluer than lilac gray. If yellow is mixed with gray, the result is a stone gray or drab gray, or in larger admixture a full drab. All these remarks refer to mixtures of lights, not to mixtures of pigments, the effects of which depend upon the special absorption-spectra of the pigments, and can only be ascertained by direct experiment. Thou must be stript out of thy stately garments; And as thou camest to me, In homely gray , instead of silk and purest pall, Now all thy cloathing must be. ed gray lord. [Scotch.] gray-fly (gra'fli), n. The trumpet-fly, a kind of bot-fly, a species of Estrus. gray head (grā'hed), n. 1. An old gray-headed man or woman. Else Boys will in your Presence lose their Fear, And laugh at the Gray - head they should revere. Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, v. 1. IMG:content-2625.png:[blocks in formation] 4. pl. [ cap.] A Scottish regiment of cavalry forming the second regiment of dragoons in the British army: so called from the color of their horses. Also Scots Grays. - Aniline gray. Same as Coupier's blue. See blue. - In the gray, in steel - work, etc., finished without being brought to a polish. Earnshaw was the first watchmaker who had sense enough to set at defiance the vulgar and ignorant prejudice for "high finish" of the non-acting surfaces, and to leave them "in the gray," as it is called. Sir E. Beckett , Clocks and Watches, p. 323. Mineral gray, a pale blue-gray pigment used by artists. It is obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of the genuine ultramarine from lapis lazuli.