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g, etc.; to carve; to hew out. Why should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Shak. Loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton.

, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.

about, or up and down; to dandle. To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind. Shak. Thy grandsire loved thee well; Many a time he danced thee on his knee. Shak. To dance attendance, to come and go obsequiously; to be or remain in waiting, at the beck and call of another, with a view to please or gain favor. A man of…

One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

A picture coarsely executed. Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord. Sterne.

t of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. [Obs.] By way of delegacy or grand commission. Sir W. Raleigh.

Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question. The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry. Glanvill.

he diction of Chaucer's poems. His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. De Quincey.

Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings. Shak.

An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson.

sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

r as if at a distance; to make seem remote. His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space. H. Miller.

other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly. Pope.

A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. [Univ. Cant] "The great dons of wit." Dryden.

to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.

yden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.]

would be instantly electrified by the news. Macaulay. Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table. G. Eliot.

Any cordial or substance which invigorates. The grand elixir, to support the spirits of human nature. Addison.

Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail.…