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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,188 words match “GREAT”

GREAT a. 10 definitions
ce; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
GREAT WHITE WAY n.
Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
GREAT-BELLIED a.
Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.
GREAT-GRANDCHILD n.
The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER n.
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
GREAT-GRANDFATHER n.
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
GREAT-GRANDMOTHER n.
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
GREAT-GRANDSON n.
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
GREAT-HEARTED a. 2 definitions
High-spirited; fearless. [Obs.] Clarendon.
GREAT-HEARTEDNESS n.
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
GREATCOAT n.
An overcoat.
GREATEN v. 2 definitions
To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.] A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king]. Ken.
GREATLY adv. 2 definitions
In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16.
GREATNESS n. 2 definitions
The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.
INGREAT v.
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. [Obs.] Fotherby.
OVERGREAT a.
Too great.
OVERGREATNESS n.
Excessive greatness.
TUN-GREAT a.
Having the circumference of a tun. [Obs.] Chaucer.
AARON'S ROD n.
A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.
ABDOMINALES n.
A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.
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