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To cook, as macaroni, in a savory juice or sauce until juice is absorbed and a crisp surface forms.

, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.

Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak.

Grinding. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality of being gritty.

The process of filling in or finishing with grout; also, the grout thus filled in. Gwilt.

In a grunting manner.

Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

The quality or state of being guilty.

A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.

Same as Hematin.

Same as Hematinometer.

Same as Hematinometric.

Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.

In a halting or limping manner.

The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.

, from Harvest, v. t. Harvesting ant (Zoöl.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease. Mortimer.

The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.