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A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole…

Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.

An old name for a woman's bustle. [U. S.] If, by her bishop, or her "grace" alone, A genuine lady, or a church, is known. Saxe.

The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment. For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. Spenser.

To stain with infamy; to disgrace. Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. Rowe.

ings belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: .. not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. ii. 8, 9.

Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns.

to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.

A leap; an elastic spring; a jump. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth.

Making a fine show or display. [Archaic] Wear my dagger with the braver grace. Shak. For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. In silks I'll rattle it of every color. Robert Greene. Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in his golden spots. Emerson.

To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them. Shak.

with up; as, to build up one's constitution. I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up. Acts xx. 32.

An illegitimate child; a bastard. The Aga speedily . . . brought her [his disgraced slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano. Evelyn.

ce, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.

f; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners. His gallant carriage all the rest did grace. Stirling.

midst of. (b) To support to the end; to sustain, or keep from falling, or being subdued. "Grace will carry us . . . through all difficulties." Hammond. (c) To complete; to bring to a succesful issue; to succeed. -- To carry up, to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build. -- To carry weight. (a) To…