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Show G R GR He *fcaping, with his gnds and reliques fled And tow'rds the fhore his little grandckild led Denhant GRA'NDAUGHTER, . /. [grand and daughter.] The daughter of a fon or daughter GRANDE'E Latin. dignity The 7. / [gra?zd, French g;mfl/i:, A man of great rank, power o had fome fharper and fome milder diffe rences, _which might eafily happe in fuch an inter view of grandees they fwayed both vehement on the parts whic Wotton When a princ fuch a thing, me felves confiderabl Some parts o or grandee manifefts a liking t generally fet about to make themSouth for fuch things the Spanifh monarchy are rathe for ornament than {trength: they furnifh out viceroyalties for the grandees, and pofts of honour fo Addifon the noble families Granve'vity., 7z [ [ from grandevus Latin.] Great age; length of life. Dié Graxpe'vous. adj. [grandevus, Latin. Long lived of great age Diéz Gra'~NDEUR. 7. /. [French. 1. State; {plendour of appearance; magnificence As a magiftrate or great officer, he locks himfelf from all approaches by the multiplied formalitie of attendance, by the diftance of ceremony aud grazSouth deur o 2. Elevatio o languag fentiment mien GRA/NDFATHER 7. f. [grand and father. The father of my father or mother; th next above my father or mother in th {cale of afcent One was faying that his grea grandfather an grandfather,and father died atfea faid another tha hear him I wer 'a as you, I would never com at fea. Why, faith he, where did your great grandfather, and grandfather, and father die? He an{wered, wher but in their beds H an anfwered 1 were as you, I would never come in bed Bacon Our grandchildren will fee a few rags hung up i Weftminfter-hall whic coft an bundre millions whereof they are paying the arrears, and boaft tha Saift their grandfurhers were rich and great Granoi'rick. adj. [grandis and facio, Lat. Making great Dia Gra'NpINOUS. adf. [grando, Latin.] Ful Di& of hail; confifting of hail Gra'NpiTY. 7 fo [from grandss, Latin. Greatnefs ; grandeur A magnificence old word Our poets excel in grandity and gravity, {fmoothnefs and property, in quicknefs and briefnefs. Camd. GRrA'NDMOTHER. 7. [. [ grand and mather. The father's or mother's mother Thy grandmather Lois, and thy mother Eunice 1 Tim. 1. § GrA/NDSIRE. 7 /. [grand and fire. 1. Grandfather obferved to havé great influence on their grandfons and, I believe, they have.much lefs among p‘gmccs wift A farm GRANGE. 7. /. [grange, French. generally a farm with a houfe at a diftanc trom neighbours One, when he had got the inheritance of an un lucky old grange, would needs fell ity and, to dra proclaimed the virtues of it: nothing eve buyers thrived on it, faith hej the trees were all blafted the fwine died of the meafles, the cattle of th murrain, and the fheep of the rot; nothing was eve Ben Fonfon not a duckling or a goofe reared there At the moated grange refides this dejected MaShakefpeare riana The loofe unletter'd hinds When for their teeming flocks and grazges ful In wanton dance they praife the bounteous Pan Milton of their ow If the chureh wa foundation the might chufe, the incumbent being once dead, whether they would put any other therein unlefs, per haps, the faid church had people belonging to it; fo then they muft ftill maintain a curate: and of thi Ayliffe fort weére their granges and priories 2. /. [granit, ¥r. from granum Gra/N1TE Lat. becaufe confifting as it were o grains, or {mall diftin& particles.] ftone compofed of feparate and very larg concretions, rudely compacted together giving fire with fteel hardnefs of grea not fermenting with acids, and imperfeGly calcinable in a great fire. The har white granite with black {pots, commonly called moor-ftone, forms a very firm and though rude, yet beautifully varieIt is found in immenf gated mafs I but not ufed there ftrata in Ireland Wherein my grandfire and'my father fat Shakef to who fam Gave, from two conquer'd parts o' th" world, thei name Denhan The wreaths his grazdfire knew to rea By altive toil and military fweat Prior 2. Any anceftor, poetically Why fhould a man whofe blood is warm within Sit like his grandfire cut in alabafter Shak . Above theportal, carv'd in cedar wood Plac'd in their ranks, their godlike grand/ires ftood Dryden 8o mimick ancient wits at beft As apes our grandfires in their doublets dreft. Pope Gra'Npson. #, fo [grand and fon. fon of a fon or daughter 'Th Almighty Jove augment your wealthy ftore Give much to you, and to his grandfons more. Dryd A moment elder than my rival fire Can chance of {eeing firft thy title prove Dryden If he be one indifferent as to the prefent rebellion, they may take it for granted his complaint i the rage of a difappointed man, Addifon's Fyeeh 2. To beftow fomething which cannot b claimed of right The God of Ifracl grant thee thy petition tha thou haft afked of him 1 Sam. xvii Then hath God alfo to the gentiles granred repentance unto life Aéts, xiil. 18 Didft thou not kill this king I grantye -Do'ft grant me hedgehog then grant me too Thou may'ft be damned for that wicked deed. Shak. He heard, and granted half his prayer The reft the winds difpers'd Pope GraxT, 7 /. [from the verb. 1. 'The att of granting or beftowing 2. 'The thing granted; a gift; a boon Courtiers juftle for a grant - And when they break their triendfhip plead thei Dryden want 3. [Inlaw.] A gift in writing of fuch thing as cannot aptly be pafled or coaveyed by word only; as rent, reverfions fervices, advowfons in grofs, common i grofs, tithes, &c. or made by fuch per fons as cannot give but by deed, as th king, and all bodies politick; which differences be often in {fpeech neglected and then is taken generally for ever gift whatfoever, made of any thing b any perfon; and he that granteth it i named the grantor, and he to whom it i made the grantee. A thing is faid to b in grant which cannot be afligned withou Cowel deed All the land is the queen's, unlefs there be fom Cornwall it is found in prodigious maffes grant of amy part thereof, to be fhewed from he and brought to London, for the fteps of clean.sh data import.tsv out README majefty Spenfer Hard red granite publick buildings Not only. the laws of this kingdom, but of othe places, and the Roman laws, provide that the princ variegated with black and white, no Davenant grazts hi i deceive b no fhoul called oriental granite, is valuable for it i fomethin o admiffio Conceflio 4 extreme hardnefs and beauty, and capabl difpute Hill on Foffils of a-mott elegant polith But of this fo large a grant, we are content not t Alabafter of diver marbl colours both fimpl and mized, the opulites, porphyry, and the granite Woodward There are ftill great pillars of granite, and othe fragments of this ancient temple. Addifon on Italy Grani'vorous. adj. [granum and woro Latin.] Eating grain; living upon grain Granivorou bwds a a crane upo firf th peck of their bills, can diftinguifh the qualities o bar bodies whic without maftication the fenfe of me difcern no Brown Panick affords a foft demulcent nourithment, bot for granivorous birds and mankind Arbuthnot Gra/NNaM. . . [for grandam.] Grandmother. Only ufed in burlefque works Oft my kind grannam told me, Tim, take warn Think'ft thou, that I will leave my kingly throne ‘Thy grandfire, and his brother Grandfathers in private families are not muc Gay ing 70 GRANT @. a. [from garantir, French Funius and Skinner perhaps, as Minfbe thinks, from gratuito, or rather from gra tia or gratificor. 1.. To admit that which is not yet proved to allow; to yield; to concede They gather out of Scriptur general. rule to b followed in making laws; and fo, in effect, the plainly grant, that we ourfelves may lawfullllmak laws for the church 1 tak wor it for granted whic ooker that though the Gree we tranflate faints, be in itfelf as ap plicable to things as perfons; yet in this article i Pearfon fignifieth not holy things, but holy ones Grant that the fates have firm'd, by their decree Dryden's in The Trojan race to reign in Italy Suppole, which yet I grant not, thy defir Hooker take advantage This grant deftroys all you have urg'd before Dryden GRrA'NTABLE. adj. [from gramt. which may be granted 'Tha "The office of the bithop's chaneellor was grantabl Ayliffe for life t H GrANTE'E. 2 /. [from grant. whom any grant is made To {mooth the way for popery in Mary's time the grantees were confirmed by the pope in the pofSawift feffion of the abby-lands He b Gra'NTOR. 7. [ [from graut. whom a grant is made A duple querela {hall not be granted under pai of fufpenfion of the grantor frora the execution o . Ayliffe his office GrA/NULARY. adj. [from granule.] Smal and compact; refembling a {mall grai -or feed Small-coal wit nitre fulphur an proportion ably mixed, tempered, and formed into granular bodies, do make up that powder which is ufed fo DBrown's Vulgar Errours guns 70 GRA'NULATE [granuler z Fr from granum, Latin.] To be formed int fmall grains The juice of grapes, infpiffated by heat, grasu Jates into fugar Sprati 70 GRA'NULATE. @. 2 1. To break into fmall mafles or granules 2. 'To raife into {fmall afperities I have obferved, in many birds, the gullet, ;'e, or |