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on to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton.

Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. Shak.

Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

See Aggrace. [Obs.]

A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat. [Obs.]

A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.

e condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak.

Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- Dis*grace"ful*fy, adv. -- Dis*grace"ful*ness, n. The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. B. Jonson.

One who disgraces.

To ingratiate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Onagraceæ or Onagrarieæ), which includes the fuchsia, the willow- herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose ().

To grace or honor exceedingly or beyond desert. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.

Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*grace"ful*ness, n.

boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20.

oral depth. The abysses of metaphysical theology. Macaulay. In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. Burke.

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.