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A toothed chised by sculptors.

The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.

A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.

as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. Milton.

The state of being gradual; gradualness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

In a gradual manner.

The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness. The gradualness of this movement. M. Arnold. The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer. H. Drummond.

To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.

State of being a graduate. Milton.

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.

One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments.

osody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry. He set to work . . . without gradus or other help. T. Hughes.

Slow-paced. -- n.

t of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. (Bot.) See Moringa.

One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.

To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. "Imparadised in one another's arms." Milton.

Incapable of being The bad seed thus sown was ineradicable. Ld. Lytton.

So as not to be eradicable.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.