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x holding small articles which are to be drawn, without being seen, on payment of a small sum. [Colloq.] -- Grab game, a theft committed by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property. [Colloq.]

dge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. Milton.

To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867. [U. S.]

of grapes. -- Grape flower, or Grape hyacinth (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme. -- Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew. -- Grape hopper (Zoöl.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to t…

pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and…

reason, cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a gratuitous assumption. Acts of gratuitous self-humiliation. De Quincye. -- Gra*tu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Gra*tu"i*tous*ness, n.

One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. [Colloq. U. S.]

The state or quality of being green; verdure. [R.] The greenth of summer. G. Eliot.

A forest as it appears is spring and summer.

Any small sum of money.

solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.

Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net. Gross adventure (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship. -- Gross average (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight;…

A European plant of the genus Bunium (B. flexuosum) having an edible root of a globular shape aud sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut.

vance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. Winter began to grow fast on. Knolles. Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus. Shak.

st trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become hollow.

See Gypsum. [Obs.] Pococke.

Resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.

Containing gypsum.

The act or art of engraving on gypsum.