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hat which they are unable to do. " South. -- To pull down, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. " In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up." Howell. " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud." Roscommon. To pull a finch. See under Finch. To p…

Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.

The lowest grade of flour in milling. It is dark and of little expansive power, is secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and contains a relatively high percentage of protein. It is chiefly useful as feed for farm animals.

, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. "An ancient but reduced family." Sir W. Scott. Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon somet…

tween pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil reglet, pica reglet, and the like.

To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. [R.] Todhunter.

The state of being retrograde; decline.

By retrograding; so as to retrograde.

ed than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.

Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

organization for prosecuting the work of Christian evangelization, especially among the degraded populations of cities. It is virtually a new sect founded in London in 1861 by William Booth. The evangelists, male and female, have military titles according to rank, that of the chief being "General." They wear a uniform,…

An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.Samoyeds.

A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.

To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system. Scaling his present bearing with his past. Shak. To scale, or scale down, a debt, wages, etc., to reduce a debt, etc., according to a fixed ratio or scale. [U.S.]

An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.

A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.

er in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.

he crevasses of a glacier; also, one of the blocks into which a glacier breaks on a steep grade.

To take off the shell or coat of; to shell. Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or was shaling off its husk. I. Taylor.