Granger stocks, shares Granger stocks, shares Stocks or shares of the granger railroads.

Grangerism Gran"ger·ism noun [ So called from the Rev. James Granger , whose "Biographical History of England" (1769) was a favorite book for illustration in this manner.] The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.

Grangerite Gran"ger·ite noun One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.

Grangerize Gran"ger·ize transitive verb & i. To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books. G. A. Sala.

Graniferous Gra·nif"er·ous adjective [ Latin qranifer ; granum grain + ferre to bear: confer French granifère .] Bearing grain, or seeds like grain. Humble.

Graniform Gran"i·form adjective [ Latin granum grain + -form ; confer French graniforme .] Formed like of corn.

Granilla Gra·nil"la noun [ Spanish , small seed.] Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

Granite Gran"ite noun [ Italian granito granite, adj., grainy, past participle of granire to make grainy, from Latin granum grain; confer French granit . See Grain .] (Geol.) A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.

» Varieties containing hornblende are common. See also the Note under Mica .

Gneissoid granite , granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement. -- Graphic granite , granite consisting of quartz and feldspar without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged in the transverse section like oriental characters. -- Porphyritic granite , granite containing feldspar in distinct crystals. -- Hornblende granite , or Syenitic granite , granite containing hornblende as well as mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende replacing the mica. -- Granite ware . (a) A kind of stoneware. (b) A Kind of ironware, coated with an enamel resembling granite.

Granite State Gran"ite State New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.
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Granite State Gran"ite State New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.

Granitic Gra·nit"ic adjective [ Confer F. granitique.] 1. Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.

2. Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.

Granitical Gra·nit"ic·al adjective Granitic.

Granitification Gra·nit`i·fi·ca"tion noun [ Granite + Latin -ficare (in comp.) to make. See - fy .] The act or the process of forming into granite. Humble.

Granitiform Gra·nit"i·form adjective [ Granite + -form .] (Geol.) Resembling granite in structure or shape.

Granitoid Gran"i·toid adjective [ Granite + -oid : confer French granitoïde .] Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.

Granivorous Gra·niv"o·rous adjective [ Latin granum grain + vorare to devour: confer French granivore .] Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Gay.

Grannam Gran"nam noun A grandam. [ Colloq.]

Granny Gran"ny noun A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.

Granny's bend , or Granny's knot (Nautical) , a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way.

Granolithic Gran`o·lith"ic noun [ Latin granum a grain (or English granite ) + -lith + -ic .] A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements.

Grant Grant transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Granted ; present participle & verbal noun Granting .] [ Middle English graunten , granten , Old French graanter , craanter , creanter , to promise, yield, Late Latin creantare to promise, assure, for (assumed Late Latin ) credentare to make believe, from Latin credens , present participle of credere to believe. See Creed , Credit .] 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

Grant me the place of this threshing floor.

1 Chrcn. xxi. 22.

2. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.

Wherefore did God grant me my request.

Milton.

3. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.

Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree.

Dryden.

Syn. -- To give; confer; bestow; convey; transfer; admit; allow; concede. See Give .

Grant Grant intransitive verb To assent; to consent. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Grant Grant noun [ Middle English grant , graunt , Old French graant , creant , promise, assurance. See Grant , transitive verb ] 1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

4. (Law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

» Formerly, in English law, the term was specifically applied to transfrrs of incorporeal hereditaments, expectant estates, and letters patent from government and such is its present application in some of the United States. But now, in England the usual mode of transferring realty is by grant ; and so, in some of the United States, the term grant is applied to conveyances of every kind of real property. Bouvier. Burrill.

Grantable Grant"a·ble adjective Capable of being granted.

Grantee Gran·tee" noun (Law) The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.

His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises.

Burke.

Granter Grant"er noun One who grants.

Grantor Grant"or noun (Law) The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.

Granular Gran"u·lar adjective [ Confer French granulaire . See Granule .] Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance.

Granular limestone , crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.

Granularly Gran"u·lar·ly adverb In a granular form.

Granulary Gran"u·la·ry adjective Granular.

Granulate Gran"u·late transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Granulated ; present participle & verbal noun Granulating .] [ See Granule .] 1. To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.

2. To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.

Granulate Gran"u·late intransitive verb To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.

Granulate, Granulated Gran"u·late, Gran"u·la`ted adjective 1. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.

2. Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.

Granulated steel , a variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.

Granulation Gran`u·la"tion noun [ Confer French granulation .] 1. The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.

2. The state of being granulated.

3. (Medicine) (a) One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing. (b) The act or process of the formation of such prominences.

Granule Gran"ule noun [ Latin granulum , dim. of granum grain: confer French granule . See Grain a kernel.] A little grain a small particle; a pellet.

Granuliferous Gran`u·lif"er·ous adjective [ Granule + -ferous .] Full of granulations.

Granuliform Gra·nu"li·form adjective [ Granule + -form .] (Min.) Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone.

Granulite Gran"u·lite noun [ From Granule .] (Geol.) A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

Granulose Gran"u·lose` noun [ From Granule .] (Physiol. Chem.) The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.

Granulous Gran"u·lous adjective [ Confer French granuleux .] Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.

Grape Grape noun [ Old French grape , crape , bunch or cluster of grapes, French grappe , akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; from Old High German chrapfo hook, German krapfen , akin to English cramp . The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Confer Agraffe , Cramp , Grapnel , Grapple .] 1. (Botany) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.

2. (Botany) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.

3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.

4. (Mil.) Grapeshot.

Grape borer . (Zoology) See Vine borer . -- Grape curculio (Zoology) , a minute black weevil ( Craponius inæqualis ) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes. -- Grape flower , or Grape hyacinth (Botany) , a liliaceous plant ( Muscari racemosum ) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme. -- Grape fungus (Botany) , a fungus ( Oidium Tuckeri ) on grapevines; vine mildew. -- Grape hopper (Zoology) , a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine. -- Grape moth (Zoology) , a small moth ( Eudemis botrana ), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk. -- Grape of a cannon , the cascabel or knob at the breech. -- Grape sugar . See Glucose . -- Grape worm (Zoology) , the larva of the grape moth. -- Sour grapes , things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to Æsop's fable of the fox and the grapes.

Grape fruit Grape" fruit` The shaddock.

Grapeless Grape"less adjective Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes.

Grapery Grap"er·y noun A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

Grapeshot Grape"shot` noun (Mil.) A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.

Grapestone Grape"stone` noun A seed of the grape.

Grapevine Grape"vine` noun (Botany) A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis , having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes .

» The common grapevine of the Old World is Vitis vinifera , and is a native of Central Asia. Another variety is that yielding small seedless grapes commonly called Zante currants . The northern Fox grape of the United States is the V. Labrusca , from which, by cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The southern Fox grape , or Muscadine , is the V. vulpina . The Frost grape is V. cordifolia , which has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early frosts.

Graph Graph noun [ See -graph .] (Math.) 1. A curve or surface, the locus of a point whose coördinates are the variables in the equation of the locus.

2. A diagram symbolizing a system of interrelations by spots, all distinguishable from one another and some connected by lines of the same kind.

Graphic Graph"ic (grăf"ĭk), Graph"ic*al (-ĭ*k a l) }, adjective [ Latin graphicus , Greek grafiko`s , from gra`fein to write; confer French graphique . See Graft .] 1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.

2. Of or pertaining to the art of writing.

3. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.

The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters.

Sir T. Browne.

4. Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.

5. Having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a graphic writer.

Graphic algebra , a branch of algebra in which, the properties of equations are treated by the use of curves and straight lines. -- Graphic arts , a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation on a flat surface of natural objects; as distinguished from music, etc., and also from sculpture. -- Graphic formula . (Chemistry) See under Formula . -- Graphic granite . See under Granite . -- Graphic method , the method of scientific analysis or investigation, in which the relations or laws involved in tabular numbers are represented to the eye by means of curves or other figures; as the daily changes of weather by means of curves, the abscissas of which represent the hours of the day, and the ordinates the corresponding degrees of temperature. -- Graphical statics (Math.) , a branch of statics, in which the magnitude, direction, and position of forces are represented by straight lines -- Graphic tellurium . See Sylvanite . >

Graphically Graph"ic·al·ly adverb In a graphic manner; vividly.

Graphicness, Graphicalness Graph"ic·ness, Graph"ic·al·ness noun The quality or state of being graphic.

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