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Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. Shak.

Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the grasses; gramineous; as, graminaceous plants.

, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.

Distorted; crabbed.

Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager. Shak.

re the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

See Haut pas.

See Race, a water course.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy.

pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.

. A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England.

Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.

An imagined space having more than three dimensions.

Not lacerable; incapable of being torn or rent. [Obs.]

Embracery. [Obs.]

Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes. -- n.

primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.