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A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. Buckle.

Decent; orderly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- adv.

1. One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitate.

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

raduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts. Spesifically: of or pertaining the centigrade thermometer; as, 10° centigrade (or 10° C.). Centigrade thermometer, a thermometer having the zero or 0 at the point indicating the freezing state of water, and the distance between that and the point indicating the boiling…

Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusæ.

Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.

Pertaining to the Citigradæ. -- n.

r degree; to lower in rank' to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey.

n; debased; sunken; low; base. The Netherlands . . . were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. Motley.

Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. [R.] Milton.

Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.

To degrade. [Obs.] Foxe.

Slow-paced. -- n.

Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.

Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.

An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.

Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.

Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusæ.

To retire; to go back. [Obs.] W. Hales.