GRAIL

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. [Obs.] T. Warton. Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc. Strype.

2.
n.

A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail.

3.
n.

Small particles of earth; gravel. [Obs.] Lying down upon the sandy grail. Spenser.

4.
n.

One of the small feathers of a hawk.


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