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a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. "A secret grate of iron bars." Shak.

Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.

has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart. A grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays. Milton.

One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.

To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

To migrate together. [R.]

g combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

To disintegrate. [Obs.]

To emigrate. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.] To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. Morley.

mer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan.

To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.

To burn. [Obs.] Greenhill.

to a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.

Ingrateful. [Obs. or Poetic] Bacon.

Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury.

Ungratefully. [Obs.]

ake entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect. "That conquest rounded and integrated the glorious empire." De Quincey. Two distinct substances, the soul and body, go to compound and integrate the man. South.

h a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.

To travel over or through. [Obs.]