Grain"y (grn"), a. Resembling grains; granular.
Graip (grp), n. [Perh. akin to grope, gripe.] A dungfork. [Scot.]
Burns.
Graith (grth), v. t. [Obs.] See Greith. Chaucer.
Graith, n. Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling,
war, etc. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Gra"kle (grk"'l), n. (Zoˆl.) See Grackle.
||Gral"lÊ (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. grallae stilts, for gradulae, fr.
||gradus. See Grade.] (Zoˆl.) An order of birds which formerly included
||all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the
||sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores.
||Gral"la*to"res (?), n. pl. [NL. from L. grallator one who runs on
||stilts.] (Zo\94l.) See GrallÊ.
Gral`la*to"ri*al (?), Gral"la*to*ry (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to
the Grallatores, or waders.
Gral"lic (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the GrallÊ.
Gral"line (ln), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the GrallÊ.
Gral"loch (?), n. Offal of a deer. -- v. t. To remove the offal from (a
deer).
-gram (?). [Gr. ? a thing drawn or written, a letter, fr. gra`fein to
draw, write. See Graphic.] A suffix indicating something drawn or
written, a drawing, writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.
Gram (?), a. [AS. gram; akin to E. grim. √35.] Angry. [Obs.]
Havelok, the Dane.
Gram, n. [Pg. gr?o grain. See Grain.] (Bot.) The East Indian name of
the chick- pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar
seeds there used for food.
Gram, Gramme (?), n. [F. gramme, from Gr. ? that which is written, a
letter, a small weight, fr. ? to write. See Graphic.] The unit of
weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very
nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of
pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See
Grain, n., 4.
Gram degree, or Gramme degree (Physics), a unit of heat, being the
amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of pure
water one degree centigrade. -- Gram equivalent (Electrolysis), that
quantity of the metal which will replace one gram of hydrogen.
Gra"ma grass` (?). [Sp. grama a sort of grass.] (Bot.) The name of
several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States,
esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya.
Gram"a*rye (?), n. [OE. gramer, grameri, gramori, grammar, magic, OF.
gramaire, F. grammaire. See Grammar.] Necromancy; magic. Sir W. Scott.
Gra*mash"es (?), n. pl. [See Gamashes.] Gaiters reaching to the knee;
leggings.
Strong gramashes, or leggings of thick gray cloth.
Sir W. Scott.
Grame (?), n. [See Gram, a.] 1. Anger; wrath; scorn. [Obs.] Chaucer.