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of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.

y. Milton. Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. Shak. As if through a dungeon grate he peered. Coleridge.

of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited…

Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather. Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1.

e soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

gs. I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task. Addison.

A grate on which bacon is laid.

A kitchen grate. [Obs.] He was bid at his first coming to take off the range, and let down the cinders. L'Estrange.

To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

postate; false; unfaithful. Who, for so many benefits received, Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false. Milton.

Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.

The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection. This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. Pope.

ok as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus. Sir P. Sidney.

; a good return in tennis. You made my liberty your late request: Is no return due from a grateful breast Dryden.

A revolter. [Obs.] "Ingrate revolts." Shak.

To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.

Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub. Thackeray.

To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn. To run a blockade, to get to, or away from, a blockaded port in safety. -- To run down. (a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted; as, to run down, a stag. (b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a…

Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

Slight; thin; lean; poor. Having Grate on their scranned pipes of wretched straw. Milton.