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Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.

To degrade. [Obs.] Foxe.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.

throne; a platform; a dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch.

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. Buckle.

Decent; orderly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- adv.

1. One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitate.

Slow-paced. -- n.

A decree of the Sultan.

lves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope.

One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.

To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.

ipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.

An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.

Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.

Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusæ.

To retire; to go back. [Obs.] W. Hales.