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the gravity of an offense. They derive an importance from . . . the gravity of the place where they were uttered. Burke.

To yield grass for grazing. The ground cortinueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose. Bacon.

creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage. The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want. J. Philips.

Leather workers' materials. [Eng.] Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials and tools are kept on sale. [Eng.]

A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.

n spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.

; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries. Where law faileth, error groweth. Gower.

The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined.

The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.

A whirlpool. [Obs.] The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. Milton.

ng tasted; tastable. This position informs us of a vulgar error, terming the gall bitter; whereas there is nothing gustable sweeter. Harvey.

A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay.

tached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.

A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.

tive of the Old World, but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869, where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the wings are marked by dark lines an…

Place where anything is commonly found. This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. Earle.

A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions. 1.

A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. Dugdale.

oy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones. Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky. Milton.