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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



131 words match “GRATE”

TOP n.
it; the head. "From top to toe" Spenser. All the stored vengeance of Heaven fall On her ungrateful top ! Shak.
TRANSCORPORATE v.
To transmigrate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
TRANSMIGRANT a.
One who transmigrates.
TRANSMIGRATOR n.
One who transmigrates. J. Ellis.
TREK v.
To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]
UNKIND a.
nting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful. He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth. Sir T. Elyot. -- Un*kind"ly, adv. -- Un*kind"ness, n.
VOTIVE a.
h. Embellishments of flowers and votive garlands. Motley. Votive medal, a medal struck in grateful commemoration of some auspicious event. -- Votive offering, an offering in fulfillment of a religious vow, as of one's person or property. -- Vo"tive*ly, adv. -- Vo"tive*ness, n.
WELCOME a.
Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news. "O, welcome hour!" Milton.
WELCOMENESS n.
The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.
WHENCE adv.
, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively. Grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends. Milton.
WRETCHED a.
Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [Obs.] "Wretched ungratefulness." Sir P. Sidney. Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices. Capgrave.
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