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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.

Same as Gram the weight.

A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.

An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm.

A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.

Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

A record made by the actinograph.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.

Pertaining to, containing, or making, anagram. -- An`a*gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

The act or practice of making anagrams. Camden.

A maker anagrams.

To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram. Cudworth.

A record made by an anemograph.

A tracing, usually made by the barograph, showing graphically the variations of atmospheric pressure for a given time.

A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.