Grace

gras, n. Exercise of love, kindne , or good will; favor bestowed; the divine favor toward man; enjoyment of divine favor inherent excellence beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; elegance of manners the title of a duke or an archbishop of England; a prayer before or after meat. pi. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, the attendants of Venus. (Mus.) Ornamental tones. A play consisting in throwing a hoop by means of two sticks.— v. [graced (grast), gracing.] To adorn, decorate; to dignify, honor. [OF L. gratia, favor, fr. pleasing Gr. chairein, to rejoice, char is, t vor, grace, Skr. hart, to desire; yearn.] —Days of grace. (Com.) Days following that when a bill or note becomes due, which are allowed to the payer to make payment in. — Good graces. Favor; friendship. — Grace'cup, n. The health drank after saying grace. — Graceful, -ful, a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action"; elegant; easy. — Grace'- fully, adv.— Gracefulne , n.— Grace'le , a. Wanting in grace or excellence, esp. in divine grace; depraved; degenerate; corrupt. — Gracele ly, adv. —