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To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.

Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.

Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. "Gleby land." Prior.

The act of glorifyng or of giving glory to. Jer. Taylor.

One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut…

himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. Sir P. Sidney.

ood, to fulfill; to establish; to maintain; to supply (a defect or deficiency); to indemmify; to prove or verify (an accusation); to prove to be blameless; to clear; to vindicate. Each word made good and true. Shak. Of no power to make his wishes good. Shak. I . . . would by combat make her good. Shak. Convenient numbe…

Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.

To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify. [R.]

To make a, booby of one); to stupefy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. Pope. We are graced with wreaths of victory. Shak.

To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven. Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts. Browne.

ser. -- To go against the grain of (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.

A suffix signifying something written, a writing; also, a writer; as autograph, crystograph, telegraph, photograph.

An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.

Serving to gratify; agreeable. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep. Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine, And grateful clusters swell. Pope.

The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.

A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.