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r of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan. [Obs.] Latimer. The persecution was carried on against the gospelers with much fierceness by those of the Roman persuasion. Strype.

or relative position in an order or series. The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor.

A steward; an overseer. [A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ. John Knox.

One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.

One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history. De Quincey.

See Grieve, an overseer.

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

See Trailing arbutus, under Arbutus. -- Ground line (Descriptive Geom.), the line of intersection of the horizontal and vertical planes of projection. -- Ground liverwort (Bot.), a flowerless plant with a broad flat forking thallus and the fruit raised on peduncled and radiated receptacles (Marchantia polymorpha).…

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective. The blank verse shall halt for it. Shak.

terity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

arts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.

of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

ss of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray o…

A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [Obs.] Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.

an body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.

A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

One versed in helminthology.

Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.