3. To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate;
to receive a diploma.
He graduated at Oxford.
Latham.
He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated.
Macaulay.
Grad"u*ate (?), n. [LL. graduatus, p. p. of graduare to admit to a
degree, fr. L. gradus grade. See Grade, n.] 1. One who has received an
academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed
course of study in any school or institution of learning.
2. A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by
apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
Grad"u*ate, a. [See Graduate, n. & v.] Arranged by successive steps or
degrees; graduated.
Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and
subordinate stages.
Tatham.
Grad"u*a"ted (?), a. 1. Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided
into grades.
2. (Zoˆl.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers
are shortest, and the others successively longer.
Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass,
having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the
amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring
(Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.
Grad"u*ate*ship, n. State of being a graduate. Milton.
Grad"u*a"tion (?), n. [LL. graduatio promotion to a degree: cf. F.
graduation division into degrees.]
1. The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as,
graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color;
graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
2. The marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or
quantity; a scale.
3. The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to
hasten its evaporation.
Grad"u*a"tor (?), n. 1. One who determines or indicates graduation; as,
a graduator of instruments.
2. An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small,
regular intervals.
3. An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a
large surface, for exposure to the air.
||Gra"dus (?), n. [From L. gradus ad Parnassum a step to Parnassus.] A
||dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin
||poetry.
He set to work . . . without gradus or other help.
T. Hughes.
||Graf (?), n. [G. Cf. -grave.] A German title of nobility, equivalent
||to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.
Graff (?), n. [OE. grafe, greife, greive. Cf. Margrave.] A steward; an
overseer.
[A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff, and not
the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.
John Knox.
Graff n. & v. See Graft.
Graff"age (?), n. [Cf. Grave, n.] The scarp of a ditch or moat. "To
clean the graffages." Miss Mitford.
Graf"fer (?), n. [See Greffier.] (Law.) a notary or scrivener. Bouvier.
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||Graf*fi"ti (?), n. pl. [It., pl. of graffito scratched] Inscriptions,
||figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or
||ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.
Graft (?), n. [OE. graff, F. greffe, originally the same word as OF.
grafe pencil, L. graphium, Gr. &?;, &?;, fr. &?; to write; prob. akin
to E. carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a
pointed pencil. Cf. Graphic, Grammar.] (a) A small shoot or scion of a
tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and
nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines
the kind of fruit. (b) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such
a shoot. (c) (Surg.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation
of autoplasty.
Graft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grafting.] [F.
greffer. See Graft, n.] 1. To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of
another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to
insert a graft upon. [Formerly written graff.]
2. (Surg.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion
so as to form an organic union.
3. To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring
about a close union.
And graft my love immortal on thy fame !
Pope.
4. (Naut.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with
a weaving of small cord or rope- yarns.
Graft, v. i. To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc.,
into another; to practice grafting.
Graft"er (?), n. 1. One who inserts scions on other stocks, or
propagates fruit by ingrafting.