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A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.…

Any slender branched gorgonian.

Slender; thin. [Obs.] Bailey.

State of being gracilent; slenderness. Milman. "Youthful gracility." W. D. Howells.

fting in which the scion, cut quite across very obliquely, so as to give it the form of a slender wedge, is thrust down inside of the bark of the stock or stem into which it is inserted, the cut side of the scion being next the wood of the stock. -- Skin grafting. (Surg.) See Autoplasty. -- Splice grafting (Hort.), a…

randiose effect of the whole. M. Arnold. The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. C. Kingsley.

One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.

ses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep. Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine, And grateful clusters swell. Pope.

gratulation or joy; congratulatory. The usual groundwork of such gratulatory odes. Bp. Horsley.

To meet and give salutations. There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace. Shak.

Ugly; frightful. Grewsome sights of war. C. Kingsley.

A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments. [Written also grayhound.]

An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe. H. Kingsley.

A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.

into groins; to build with groins. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Emerson.

ng plant; alehoof. See Gill. -- Ground joist, a joist for a basement or ground floor; a. sleeper. -- Ground lark (Zoöl.), the European pipit. See Pipit. -- Ground laurel (Bot.). See Trailing arbutus, under Arbutus. -- Ground line (Descriptive Geom.), the line of intersection of the horizontal and vertical planes of…

cted without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.

The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.