Search the Dictionary

The quality of being flammable; inflammability. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Inflammable. [Obs.]

The act of setting in a flame or blaze. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.

The third letter (G) of the Greek alphabet.

Very penetrating rays not appreciably deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances. The prevailing view is that they are non-periodic ether pulses differing from Röntgen rays only in being more penetrating.

A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.

Literally, a letter word; a word represented by a logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t. pitman.

ness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar. The original bad grammar and bad spelling. Macaulay.

One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.

The principles, practices, or peculiarities of grammarians. [R.]

Without grammar.

Rudiments; first principles, as of grammar. [Obs.] Ford.

Grammatical.

Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.

A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender. My noble Neophite, my little grammaticaster. B. Jonson.

A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule. [Obs.] Dalgarno.

A point or principle of grammar. Abp. Leighton.

To render grammatical. Fuller.

A petty grammarian. [R] Tooke.

A grand mother.