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or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake. "Our grand foe, Satan." Milton. Making so bold . . . to unseal Their grand commission. Shak.

See Gramercy. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a grand duke. H. James.

An old woman; specifically, a grandmother. Shak.

The aunt of one's father or mother.

A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

The daughter of one's son or daughter.

A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.

The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.

The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. Milton.

Great age; long life. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Of great age; aged; longlived. [R.] Bailey.

er's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. (Zoöl.) See Dady longlegs.

Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne.

Making great. [R.] Bailey.

The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,

Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Grandiloquent.

Consisting of hail; abounding in hail. [R.] Bailey.

sense. The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole. M. Arnold. The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. C. Kingsley.