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The brown crust formed upon a gratinated dish; also, dish itself, as crusts bread, game, or poultry.

To cook, as macaroni, in a savory juice or sauce until juice is absorbed and a crisp surface forms.

ing, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.

With a crust made by browning in the oven; as, spaghetti may be served au gratin.

Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.

To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise. Heard ye the din of battle bray Gray.

The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

An integrating anemometer.

To make a prolonged sharp grating or ssqueaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson.

A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound. Start not at the creaking of the door. Longfellow.

A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.

The act or process of deflagrating.

ng the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars. Remarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction. Whewell. Diffraction grating. (Optics) See under Grating. -- Diffraction spectrum. (Optics) See u…

Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

ate 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.

The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.

sur.] Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch. Tennyson. The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave. Dickens. -- To give out. (a) To expend all one's strength. Hence: (b) To cease from exertion; to fail; to be exhausted; as, my feet being to give out; the flour has given out. -- To give over, to cease; to discontin…

To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.

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

A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.