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Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. [Obs.] The generous and gravest citizens. Shak.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [Obs.] Kersey.

The race of giants. [R.] Cotgrave.

which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).

joi. Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [Obs.] Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks Shak.

A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections. [Obs.] Milton.

ht has gone out. Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. Addison. -- To go over. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides. I must not go over Jordan. Deut. iv. 22. Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonite…

Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious. A brave good-fearing man. Tennyson.

The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

etle. -- Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold…

A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. That great gourmand, fat Apicius B. Jonson.

Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton.

Small particles of earth; gravel. [Obs.] Lying down upon the sandy grail. Spenser.

Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters. Sir T. Browne.

A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.

That which is graved or carved. [R.] Skillful to . . . grave any manner of graving. 2 Chron. ii. 14.