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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



131 words match “GRATE”

REDINTEGRATE v. 2 definitions
estore to integrity or soundness. The English nation seems obliterated. What could redintegrate us again Coleridge.
REGRATE v. 3 definitions
To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
REGRATER n.
One who regrates.
REGRATERY n.
The act or practice of regrating.
REINTEGRATE v.
store; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reas, to reintegrate a nation. Bacon.
REMIGRATE v.
To migrate again; to go back; to return. Boyle.
TRANSMIGRATE v. 2 definitions
country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.
UNGRATE a.
Displeasing; ungrateful; ingrate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
UNGRATEFUL a. 2 definitions
Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful. South.
AGREEABLE a.
Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith.
ALTERNATE n.
That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [R.] Grateful alternates of substantial. Prior.
ASPERITY n.
Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
BLESSING n.
Grateful praise or worship.
BLOWER n.
ing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
CACHIRI n.
A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.
CARIES n.
Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.
CHAFING n.
table, or for keeping food warm, either by coals, by a lamp, or by hot water; a portable grate for coals. -- Chafing gear (Naut.), any material used to protect sails, rigging, or the like, at points where they are exposed to friction.
CHAUFFER n.
A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottem, and an open top.
CHICALOTE n.
A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California.
CLINKER n.
Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
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