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To fret; to irritate; to offend. News, my good lord Rome . . . grates me. Shak.

Impression, as upon the mind or heart. New gravings upon their souls. Eikon Basilike

dove. These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. Sir I. Newton.

Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.

Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. Burke.

With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely. -- a.

Freshness; vigor; newness.

er coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.

size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.

ter. -- Gum wood, the wood of any gum tree, esp. the wood of the Eucalyptus piperita, of New South Wales.

s soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material.…

rcle, with gyrations continually repeated, the whole circle will appear like fire. Sir I. Newton.

The petrified fruit of the Chara hispida, a species of stonewort. See Stonewort. Lyell.

A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds. Agassiz.

to render trite and commonplace. The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late. J. H. Newman.

r of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. J. H. Newman.

she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.

ot imbedded in the skin. Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. Chaucer. And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. Spenser.

rmediate point; midway. Halfway covenant, a practice among the Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the Lord's Supper. They were also allowed to present their…

; incompletely. I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not. J. H. Newman. To go halves. See under Go.