graipl (grap)

A Scotch form of grope. graip2 (grap), n. [= Sw. grepe Dan. greb, reb, a = dung-fork; cf.graip1, v.] Adung-fork. [Scotch.] The graip he for a harrow tak's. Burns , Halloween. Graip?... That is what we call a three or four-pronged fork in my country. Geo. Mac Donald , Warlock o' Glen warlock. graith (grath), a. [Also E. dial. graid , grade ; graith , greith, grayth, greidhr , ready, free (= Goth. garaids , exact, = AS. ge ræde , ready, prompt), also (without prefix) Icel. reidhr = AS. ræde = OSw. red a = Dan. rede, ready: see ready.] 1. Ready; prepared. [Now only prov. Eng. and Scotch, chiefly in the form graid, grade.] Of his cosyns he cald kyde men two: On Glaucon, a go me that graithe was in armys. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6084. 2. Straight; direct; free. [Obsolete or prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Wallace mycht nocht a graith straik [stroke) on him get. Wallace , iv. 76, MS. (Jamie son.) So loue ys lech of lyue and ly e of alle peyne, And the graffe of grace and graythest wey to heuene. Piers Plowman (C), ii. 201. IMG:content-2568.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2569.png:[blocks in formation] waders, including forms now dispersed in sev eral orders.-2. In Merrem's cla ification, the larger and chiefly altricial grallatorial birds, such as herons, ibises, storks, and spoonbills, and also præcocial forms, such as the cranes. -3. An ordinal or other group of wading birds, variously restricted. The term has been transmitted from a former stage of ornithology, and no one has succeeded in defining it with precision. It is often discarded, the waders that had been placed in it being then distributed in three groups, called Limicola, the præcocial shore-birds; He rod i ones, the altricial waders, as herons, storks, and ibises; and Alec to rides or Paludico læ, the præcocial wading birds, like cranes, rails, and their allies. When the name Grallæ is retained, it usually covers the first and third of these groups, and may be briefly said to correspond to the præcocial wading birds. These The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary Grallæ are an extensive and varied series of about 20 families. The plovers, Charadriidæ, and the snipes, Scolopacidæ, are the largest of these families; and more or le nearly related to these schizo rhinal cha rad rio morphs are the Chi. on i did a, or sheathbills; the Thinocorida, or lark-plovers; the Glareolidæ, or pratincoles; the Dromadida, or crab plovers; the Hæmatopodida, or oyster-catchers; the Ja canidæ or Parridæ, the jaçanas; the Recurvirostridæ, or avosets and stilts; and the Phalaropodidæ, or phalaropes. A pair of holorhinal families of Gralle are the Edicne mid a, or thick-knees, and the Otididæ, or bustards. The remarkable gralline genera Eurypyga, Rhinochetus, and Me sites are types respectively of three families. The remaining præcocial gralline families are the Gruidæ and Rallidæ, or cranes and rails, with which are now a ociated the Aramid a, Psophiidæ, and Car i a mid a. See the family names.