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The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection. This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. Pope.

ok as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus. Sir P. Sidney.

; a good return in tennis. You made my liberty your late request: Is no return due from a grateful breast Dryden.

nions, as they hang, will shoot forth. Bacon. But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. Dryden.

no blind zeal or fond tradition rise, But saved from death, our Argives yearly pay These grateful honors to the god of day. Pope.

ty made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. Clarendon.

a luxury in self-dispraise: And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Wordsworth.

] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. Pope.

Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.] I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that. Shak.

That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life. A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet. Locke.

To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.

The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful. Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Ps. c. 4. -- Thank"ful*ly, adv. -- Thank"ful*ness, n.

Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful. That she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! Shak.

Grateful to the taste; palable. -- Tooth"some*ly, adv. -- Tooth"some*ness, n. Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome for me. Fuller.

it; the head. "From top to toe" Spenser. All the stored vengeance of Heaven fall On her ungrateful top ! Shak.

Displeasing; ungrateful; ingrate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

nting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful. He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth. Sir T. Elyot. -- Un*kind"ly, adv. -- Un*kind"ness, n.

h. Embellishments of flowers and votive garlands. Motley. Votive medal, a medal struck in grateful commemoration of some auspicious event. -- Votive offering, an offering in fulfillment of a religious vow, as of one's person or property. -- Vo"tive*ly, adv. -- Vo"tive*ness, n.

Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news. "O, welcome hour!" Milton.