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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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240 words match “GRAND”

GREAT-GRANDFATHER n.
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
GREAT-GRANDMOTHER n.
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
GREAT-GRANDSON n.
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
PARAGRANDINE n.
An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr. Knight.
SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT n.
The aggrandizement of one's self.
AIRY a.
Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. [Colloq.]
APT n.
to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.
ARCHENEMY n.
A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind. Milton.
ARCHMARSHAL n.
The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.
ASCENDING a.
line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. -- Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the northern node. Herschel.…
AUGUST a.
quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle w…
AUGUSTNESS n.
The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.
AUTHORIZE v.
warrant; as, to authorize a report. A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shak.
AWFULNESS n.
erence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. The awfulness of grandeur. Johnson.
AYLE n.
A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.
BASHAW n.
Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
BEGLERBEG n.
The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.
BELDAM; BELDAME n.
Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire. To show the beldam daughters of her daughter. Shak.
BELSIRE n.
A grandfather, or ancestor. "His great belsire Brute." [Obs.] Drayton.
BESAIEL; BESAILE; BESAYLE n. 2 definitions
A great-grandfather. [Obs.]
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