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Gracefully; smoothly; elegantly.

Like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the touch, as is mineral soapstone.

or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. O'er the smooth enameled green. Milton.

To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.

t, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Lacedæmonians to hold their noses to the gri…

A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree. [Obs.] Every grise of fortune Is smoothed by that below. Shak.

The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song. Moore (Encyc.). On that ground I'll build a holy descant. Shak.

A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe. Knight.

of the jaws. Gum rash (Med.), strophulus in a teething child; red gum. -- Gum stick, a smooth hard substance for children to bite upon while teething.

Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth. Gray.

A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.

A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.

Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

Tait. -- Harmonic suture (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; -- called also harmonic, and harmony. -- Harmonic triad (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth; the common chord.

The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus æruginosus).

n of man and domestic animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest bug. -- Harvest moon, the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days…

The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.

Seated or laid up in the heart. I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted. Shak.

tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. Shak. Sobbing, as if a hearstring broke. Moore.