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Grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graced; p. pr. & vb. n. Gracing.] 1. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. [1913 Webster] Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. --Pope. [1913 Webster] We are graced with wreaths of victory. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor. [1913 Webster] He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court. --Knolles. [1913 Webster] 3. To supply with heavenly grace. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mus.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to. [1913 Webster]
GRACE (bouvier)	GRACE. That which a person is not entitled to by law, but which is extended to him as a favor; a pardon, for example, is an act of grace. There are- certain days allowed to a payer of a promissory note or bill of exchange, beyond the time which appears on its face, which are called days of grace. (q. v.)

podobné slovo	definícia
disgrace (mass)	disgrace - hanba
grace (mass)	grace - zľutovanie, milosť
graceful (mass)	graceful - elegantný
sailingrace (mass)	sailing-race - závod jácht
Act of grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]Act \Act\ ([a^]kt), n. [L. actus, fr. agere to drive, do: cf. F. acte. See Agent.] 1. That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. [1913 Webster] That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] Hence, in specific uses: (a) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress. (b) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done. --Abbott. (c) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed. (d) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student. [1913 Webster] 2. A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 3. Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). "In act to shoot." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] This woman was taken . . . in the very act. --John viii. 4. [1913 Webster] Act of attainder. (Law) See Attainder. Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-F['e]. Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not guard. Act of grace, an expression often used to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numerous offenders, as at the beginning of a new reign. Act of indemnity, a statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. --Abbott. Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record. [1913 Webster] Syn: See Action. [1913 Webster]
Aggrace (gcide)	Aggrace \Aggrace"\, v. t. [Pref. a- + grace: cf. It. aggraziare, LL. aggratiare. See Grace.] To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]Aggrace \Aggrace"\, n. Grace; favor. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Agrace (gcide)	Agrace \A*grace"\, n. & v. See Aggrace. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Bongrace (gcide)	Bongrace \Bon"grace`\ (b[o^]n"gr[=a]s`), n. [F. bon good + gr[^a]ce grace, charm.] A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Bonhomie
Bowgrace (gcide)	Bowgrace \Bow"grace`\, n. (Naut.) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice. [1913 Webster]
Coup de grace (gcide)	Coup \Coup\ (k[=oo]), n. [F., fr.L. colaphus a cuff, Gr. ko`lafos.] 1. A sudden stroke delivered with promptness and force; -- used also in various ways to convey the idea of an unexpected, clever, and successful tactic or stratagem. [1913 Webster +PJC] 2. A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal at rouge et noir. [Cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. Among some tribes of North American Indians especially of the Great Plains, the act of striking or touching an enemy in warfare with the hand or at close quarters, as with a short stick, in such a manner as by custom to entitle the doer to count the deed an act of bravery; hence, any of various other deeds recognized by custom as acts of bravery or honor. While the coup was primarily, and usually, a blow with something held in the hand, other acts in warfare which involved great danger to him who performed them were also reckoned coups by some tribes. --G. B. Grinnell. Among the Blackfeet the capture of a shield, bow, gun, war bonnet, war shirt, or medicine pipe was deemed a coup. --G. B. Grinnell. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Coup de grace (k[=oo]` de gr[.a]s") [F.], the stroke of mercy with which an executioner ends by death the sufferings of the condemned; hence, a decisive, finishing stroke. Coup de main (k[=oo]` de m[a^]N") [F.] (Mil.), a sudden and unexpected movement or attack. Coup de soleil (k[=o]` de s[-o]l[asl]l or -l[asl]"y') [F.] (Med.), a sunstroke. See Sunstroke. Coup d'['e]tat (k[=oo]" d[asl]t[aum]") [F.] (Politics), a sudden, decisive exercise of power whereby the existing government is subverted without the consent of the people; an unexpected measure of state, more or less violent; a stroke of policy. Coup d'[oe]il (k[=oo]` d[~e]l"). [F.] (a) A single view; a rapid glance of the eye; a comprehensive view of a scene; as much as can be seen at one view. (b) The general effect of a picture. (c) (Mil.) The faculty or the act of comprehending at a glance the weakness or strength of a military position, of a certain arrangement of troops, the most advantageous position for a battlefield, etc. [1913 Webster]
Day of grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Days of grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]Day \Day\ (d[=a]), n. [OE. day, dai, dei, AS. d[ae]g; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. dag, G. tag, Icel. dagr, Goth. dags; cf. Skr. dah (for dhagh ?) to burn. [root]69. Cf. Dawn.] 1. The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine; -- also called daytime. [1913 Webster +PJC] 2. The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below. [1913 Webster] 3. Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work. [1913 Webster] 4. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. [1913 Webster] A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day. --Jowett (Thucyd. ) [1913 Webster] If my debtors do not keep their day, . . . I must with patience all the terms attend. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc. [1913 Webster] The field of Agincourt, Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus. --Shak. [1913 Webster] His name struck fear, his conduct won the day. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster] Note: Day is much used in self-explaining compounds; as, daybreak, daylight, workday, etc. [1913 Webster] Anniversary day. See Anniversary, n. Astronomical day, a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers. Born days. See under Born. Canicular days. See Dog day. Civil day, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight. Day blindness. (Med.) See Nyctalopia. Day by day, or Day after day, daily; every day; continually; without intermission of a day. See under By. "Day by day we magnify thee." --Book of Common Prayer. Days in bank (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill. Day in court, a day for the appearance of parties in a suit. Days of devotion (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley. Days of grace. See Grace. Days of obligation (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley. Day owl, (Zool.), an owl that flies by day. See Hawk owl. Day rule (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day. Day school, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in distinction from a boarding school. Day sight. (Med.) See Hemeralopia. Day's work (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon. From day to day, as time passes; in the course of time; as, he improves from day to day. Jewish day, the time between sunset and sunset. Mean solar day (Astron.), the mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year. One day, One of these days, at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. "Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband." --Shak. Only from day to day, without certainty of continuance; temporarily. --Bacon. Sidereal day, the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time. To win the day, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S. Butler. Week day, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day. Working day. (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay. [1913 Webster]
Disgrace (gcide)	Disgrace \Disgrace"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgraced; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgracing.] [Cf. F. disgracier. See Disgrace, n.] 1. To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor. [1913 Webster] Flatterers of the disgraced minister. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. --J. Morley. [1913 Webster] 2. To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation. [1913 Webster] Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace. --Pope. [1913 Webster] His ignorance disgraced him. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] 3. To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. [1913 Webster] The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. --Spenser. Syn: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase. [1913 Webster]Disgrace \Disgrace"\ (?; 277), n. [F. disgr[^a]ce; pref. dis- (L. dis-) + gr[^a]ce. See Grace.] 1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. [1913 Webster] Macduff lives in disgrace. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. [1913 Webster] To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being. [1913 Webster] 4. An act of unkindness; a disfavor. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The interchange continually of favors and disgraces. --Bacon. Syn: Disfavor; disesteem; opprobrium; reproach; discredit; disparagement; dishonor; shame; infamy; ignominy; humiliation. [1913 Webster]
Disgraced (gcide)	Disgrace \Dis*grace"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgraced; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgracing.] [Cf. F. disgracier. See Disgrace, n.] 1. To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor. [1913 Webster] Flatterers of the disgraced minister. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. --J. Morley. [1913 Webster] 2. To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation. [1913 Webster] Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace. --Pope. [1913 Webster] His ignorance disgraced him. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] 3. To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. [1913 Webster] The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. --Spenser. Syn: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase. [1913 Webster]disgraced \disgraced\ adj. suffering shame or dishonor. Syn: discredited, dishonored, shamed. [WordNet 1.5]
disgraced (gcide)	Disgrace \Dis*grace"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgraced; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgracing.] [Cf. F. disgracier. See Disgrace, n.] 1. To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor. [1913 Webster] Flatterers of the disgraced minister. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. --J. Morley. [1913 Webster] 2. To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation. [1913 Webster] Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace. --Pope. [1913 Webster] His ignorance disgraced him. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] 3. To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. [1913 Webster] The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. --Spenser. Syn: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase. [1913 Webster]disgraced \disgraced\ adj. suffering shame or dishonor. Syn: discredited, dishonored, shamed. [WordNet 1.5]
Disgraceful (gcide)	Disgraceful \Disgrace"ful\, a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- Disgrace"fully, adv. -- Disgrace"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster] The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Disgracefully (gcide)	Disgraceful \Disgrace"ful\, a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- Disgrace"fully, adv. -- Disgrace"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster] The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Disgracefulness (gcide)	Disgraceful \Disgrace"ful\, a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- Disgrace"fully, adv. -- Disgrace"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster] The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Disgracer (gcide)	Disgracer \Dis*gra"cer\, n. One who disgraces. [1913 Webster]
Expectative grace (gcide)	Expectative \Expect"ative\, a. [Cf. F. expectatif.] Constituting an object of expectation; contingent. [1913 Webster] Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. --Foxe. [1913 Webster]
Good graces (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]Grace \Grace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graced; p. pr. & vb. n. Gracing.] 1. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. [1913 Webster] Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. --Pope. [1913 Webster] We are graced with wreaths of victory. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor. [1913 Webster] He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court. --Knolles. [1913 Webster] 3. To supply with heavenly grace. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mus.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to. [1913 Webster]
Grace cup (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Grace drink (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Grace hoop (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
grace hoop (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Grace note (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Grace stroke (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Graced (gcide)	Grace \Grace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graced; p. pr. & vb. n. Gracing.] 1. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. [1913 Webster] Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. --Pope. [1913 Webster] We are graced with wreaths of victory. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor. [1913 Webster] He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court. --Knolles. [1913 Webster] 3. To supply with heavenly grace. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mus.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to. [1913 Webster]Graced \Graced\, a. Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Graceful (gcide)	Graceful \Grace"ful\, a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. [1913 Webster] High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. --Dryden. -- Grace"fully, adv. Grace"fulness, n. [1913 Webster]
Gracefully (gcide)	Graceful \Grace"ful\, a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. [1913 Webster] High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. --Dryden. -- Grace"fully, adv. Grace"fulness, n. [1913 Webster]
Gracefulness (gcide)	Graceful \Grace"ful\, a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. [1913 Webster] High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. --Dryden. -- Grace"fully, adv. Grace"fulness, n. [1913 Webster]
Graceless (gcide)	Graceless \Grace"less\, a. 1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. [Obs.] --Chaucer. -- Grace"lessly, adv. -- Grace"lessness, n.
Gracelessly (gcide)	Graceless \Grace"less\, a. 1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. [Obs.] --Chaucer. -- Grace"lessly, adv. -- Grace"lessness, n.
Gracelessness (gcide)	Graceless \Grace"less\, a. 1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. [Obs.] --Chaucer. -- Grace"lessly, adv. -- Grace"lessness, n.
Herb grace (gcide)	Herb \Herb\ ([~e]rb or h[~e]rb; 277), n. [OE. herbe, erbe, OF. herbe, erbe, F. herbe, L. herba; perh. akin to Gr. forbh` food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.] 1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. [1913 Webster] Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year. [1913 Webster] 2. Grass; herbage. [1913 Webster] And flocks Grazing the tender herb. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet. Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Act[ae]a spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc. Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. --Dr. Prior. Herb grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue. Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite. Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium ({Geranium Robertianum}.) [1913 Webster]
Herb of grace (gcide)	Herb \Herb\ ([~e]rb or h[~e]rb; 277), n. [OE. herbe, erbe, OF. herbe, erbe, F. herbe, L. herba; perh. akin to Gr. forbh` food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.] 1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. [1913 Webster] Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year. [1913 Webster] 2. Grass; herbage. [1913 Webster] And flocks Grazing the tender herb. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet. Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Act[ae]a spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc. Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. --Dr. Prior. Herb grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue. Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite. Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium ({Geranium Robertianum}.) [1913 Webster]
Ingrace (gcide)	Ingrace \In*grace"\, v. t. [Pref. in- in + grace.] To ingratiate. [Obs.] --G. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
Means of grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Onagraceous (gcide)	Onagraceous \On`agra"ceous\ ([o^]n`[.a]gr[=a]"sh[u^]s), Onagrarieous \On`agrari"eous\ (-gr[asl]r[imac]"[-e]*[u^]s), a. [From NL. Onagra an old scientific name of the evening primrose ([OE]nothera), fr. Gr. 'ona`gra a kind of plant; of uncertain origin.] (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Onagraceae or Onagrarieae), which includes the fuchsia, the willow-herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose ([OE]nothera). [1913 Webster]
Overgrace (gcide)	Overgrace \O`ver*grace"\, v. t. To grace or honor exceedingly or beyond desert. [R.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
Scapegrace (gcide)	Scapegrace \Scape"grace`\, n. A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. --Beaconsfield. [1913 Webster]
To do grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
To fall from grace (gcide)	Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. Fell (f[e^]l); p. p. Fallen (f[add]l"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Falling.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. Fail, Fell, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. [1913 Webster] I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. [1913 Webster] 2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. [1913 Webster] I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. [1913 Webster] 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. [1913 Webster] 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. [1913 Webster] A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. [1913 Webster] He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. [1913 Webster] 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the price falls; stocks fell two points. [1913 Webster] I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster] 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. [1913 Webster] Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. [1913 Webster] Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. [1913 Webster] 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; as, to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. [1913 Webster] 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. [1913 Webster] Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. [1913 Webster] I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. [1913 Webster] 13. To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. [1913 Webster] 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. [1913 Webster] The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. [1913 Webster] They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster] 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. [1913 Webster] The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. [1913 Webster] 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. [1913 Webster] They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). [1913 Webster] 17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. [1913 Webster] 18. To belong or appertain. [1913 Webster] If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. [1913 Webster] To fall abroad of (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. To fall among, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. To fall astern (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. To fall away. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. "These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. "How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?" --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. "One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly." --Addison. To fall back. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. To fall back upon or To fall back on. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, a more reliable alternative, or some other available expedient or support). To fall calm, to cease to blow; to become calm. To fall down. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. "All kings shall fall down before him." --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth." --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. To fall flat, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. To fall foul of. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. To fall from, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. To fall from grace (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. To fall home (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. To fall in. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. "The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in." --Macaulay. To fall into one's hands, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. To fall in with. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. "You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects." --Addison. To fall off. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. [1913 Webster] Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. To fall on. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. "Fall on, and try the appetite to eat." --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. "Fall on, fall on, and hear him not." --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. To fall out. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. [1913 Webster] A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice." --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. To fall over. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. To fall short, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. To fall through, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. To fall to, to begin. "Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food." --Dryden. To fall under. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. To fall upon. (a) To attack. [See To fall on.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. "I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions." --Holder. (c) To rush against. [1913 Webster] Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications. [1913 Webster]
To say grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
To take heart of grace (gcide)	Heart \Heart\ (h[aum]rt), n. [OE. harte, herte, heorte, AS. heorte; akin to OS. herta, OFies. hirte, D. hart, OHG. herza, G. herz, Icel. hjarta, Sw. hjerta, Goth. ha['i]rt[=o], Lith. szirdis, Russ. serdtse, Ir. cridhe, L. cor, Gr. kardi`a, kh^r. [root]277. Cf. Accord, Discord, Cordial, 4th Core, Courage.] 1. (Anat.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. [1913 Webster] Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! --Shak. [1913 Webster] Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle being completely separated from the left auricle and ventricle; and the blood flows from the systemic veins to the right auricle, thence to the right ventricle, from which it is forced to the lungs, then returned to the left auricle, thence passes to the left ventricle, from which it is driven into the systemic arteries. See Illust. under Aorta. In fishes there are but one auricle and one ventricle, the blood being pumped from the ventricle through the gills to the system, and thence returned to the auricle. In most amphibians and reptiles, the separation of the auricles is partial or complete, and in reptiles the ventricles also are separated more or less completely. The so-called lymph hearts, found in many amphibians, reptiles, and birds, are contractile sacs, which pump the lymph into the veins. [1913 Webster] 2. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart. [1913 Webster] Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain. --Emerson. [1913 Webster] 3. The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc. [1913 Webster] Exploits done in the heart of France. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] 4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit. [1913 Webster] Eve, recovering heart, replied. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country invade another. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] 5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. [1913 Webster] That the spent earth may gather heart again. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 6. That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart. [1913 Webster] 7. One of the suits of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps. [1913 Webster] 8. Vital part; secret meaning; real intention. [1913 Webster] And then show you the heart of my message. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. "I speak to thee, my heart." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Note: Heart is used in many compounds, the most of which need no special explanation; as, heart-appalling, heart-breaking, heart-cheering, heart-chilled, heart-expanding, heart-free, heart-hardened, heart-heavy, heart-purifying, heart-searching, heart-sickening, heart-sinking, heart-sore, heart-stirring, heart-touching, heart-wearing, heart-whole, heart-wounding, heart-wringing, etc. [1913 Webster] After one's own heart, conforming with one's inmost approval and desire; as, a friend after my own heart. The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart. --1 Sam. xiii. 14. At heart, in the inmost character or disposition; at bottom; really; as, he is at heart a good man. By heart, in the closest or most thorough manner; as, to know or learn by heart. "Composing songs, for fools to get by heart" (that is, to commit to memory, or to learn thoroughly). --Pope. to learn by heart, to memorize. For my heart, for my life; if my life were at stake. [Obs.] "I could not get him for my heart to do it." --Shak. Heart bond (Masonry), a bond in which no header stone stretches across the wall, but two headers meet in the middle, and their joint is covered by another stone laid header fashion. --Knight. Heart and hand, with enthusiastic co["o]peration. Heart hardness, hardness of heart; callousness of feeling; moral insensibility. --Shak. Heart heaviness, depression of spirits. --Shak. Heart point (Her.), the fess point. See Escutcheon. Heart rising, a rising of the heart, as in opposition. Heart shell (Zool.), any marine, bivalve shell of the genus Cardium and allied genera, having a heart-shaped shell; esp., the European Isocardia cor; -- called also {heart cockle}. Heart sickness, extreme depression of spirits. Heart and soul, with the utmost earnestness. Heart urchin (Zool.), any heartshaped, spatangoid sea urchin. See Spatangoid. Heart wheel, a form of cam, shaped like a heart. See Cam. In good heart, in good courage; in good hope. Out of heart, discouraged. Poor heart, an exclamation of pity. To break the heart of. (a) To bring to despair or hopeless grief; to cause to be utterly cast down by sorrow. (b) To bring almost to completion; to finish very nearly; -- said of anything undertaken; as, he has broken the heart of the task. To find in the heart, to be willing or disposed. "I could find in my heart to ask your pardon." --Sir P. Sidney. To have at heart, to desire (anything) earnestly. To have in the heart, to purpose; to design or intend to do. To have the heart in the mouth, to be much frightened. To lose heart, to become discouraged. To lose one's heart, to fall in love. To set the heart at rest, to put one's self at ease. To set the heart upon, to fix the desires on; to long for earnestly; to be very fond of. To take heart of grace, to take courage. To take to heart, to grieve over. To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve, to expose one's feelings or intentions; to be frank or impulsive. With all one's heart, With one's whole heart, very earnestly; fully; completely; devotedly. [1913 Webster]
Undisgraced (gcide)	Undisgraced \Undisgraced\ See disgraced.
Ungraced (gcide)	Ungraced \Ungraced\ See graced.
Ungraceful (gcide)	Ungraceful \Ungrace"ful\, a. Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. [1913 Webster] The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] -- Ungrace"fully, adv. -- Ungrace"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
Ungracefully (gcide)	Ungraceful \Ungrace"ful\, a. Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. [1913 Webster] The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] -- Ungrace"fully, adv. -- Ungrace"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
Ungracefulness (gcide)	Ungraceful \Ungrace"ful\, a. Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. [1913 Webster] The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] -- Ungrace"fully, adv. -- Ungrace"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
With a bad grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
With a good grace (gcide)	Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice, cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis.] 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. [1913 Webster] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. [1913 Webster] And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom. xi. 6. [1913 Webster] My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii. 9. [1913 Webster] Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. --Rom. v. 20. [1913 Webster] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2 [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. [1913 Webster] 4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. [1913 Webster] He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. --Blair. [1913 Webster] 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. [1913 Webster] Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. [1913 Webster] The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. [1913 Webster] How fares your Grace ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. [1913 Webster] 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. [1913 Webster] Act of grace. See under Act. Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. [1913 Webster] That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. [1913 Webster] The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. [1913 Webster] To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. [1913 Webster] Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. [1913 Webster] What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. [1913 Webster]
Year of grace (gcide)	Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge['a]r; akin to OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend y[=a]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore.] [1913 Webster] 1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). [1913 Webster] Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752. [1913 Webster] 2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. [1913 Webster] 3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds. A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. {A month's mind}, under Month. Bissextile year. See Bissextile. Canicular year. See under Canicular. Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time. Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days. Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year. Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days. Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another. Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic. Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian. Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary. Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds. Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar. Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above. Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical. Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds. Tropical year. See under Tropical. Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. --Abbott. Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d. [1913 Webster] year 2000 bug
graces (devil)	GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing.
ACT OF GRACE (bouvier)	ACT OF GRACE, Scotch law. The name by which the statute which provides for the aliment of prisoners confined for civil debts, is usually known. 2. This statute provides that where a prisoner for debt declares upon oath, before the magistrate of the jurisdiction, that he has not wherewith to maintain himself, the magistrate may set him it liberty, if the creditor, in consequence of whose diligence he was imprisoned, does not aliment him within ten days after intimation for that purpose. 1695, c. 32; Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4, 3, 14. This is somewhat similar to a provision in the insolvent act of Pennsylvania.
DAYS OF GRACE (bouvier)	DAYS OF GRACE. Certain days after the time limited by the bill or note, which the acceptor or drawer has a right to demand for payment of the bill or note; these days were so called because they were formerly gratuitously allowed, but now, by the custom of merchants, sanctioned by decisions of courts of justice, they are demandable of right. 6 Watts & Serg. 179. The number of these in the United States is generally three. Chitty on Bills, h.t. But where the established usage of the where the instrument is payable, or of the bank at which it is payable, or deposited for collection, be to make the demand on the fourth or other day, the parties to the note will be bound by such usage. 5 How. U. S. Rep. 317; 1 Smith, Lead. Cas. 417. When the last day of grace happens on the 4th of July; 2 Caines Cas. in Err. 195; or on Sunday; 2 Caines' R. 343; 7 Wend. 460; the demand must be made on the day previous. 13 John. 470; 7 Wend. 460; 12 Mass. 89; 6 Pick. 80; 2 Caines, 343: 2 McCord, 436. But see 2 Conn. 69. See 20 Wend. 205; 1 Metc. R. 43; 2 Cain. Cas. 195; 7 How. Miss. R. 129; 4 J. J. Marsh. 332. 2. In Louisiana, the days of grace are no obstacle to a set off, the bill being due, for this purpose before the expiration of those days. Louis. Code, art. 2206. 3. In France all days of grace, of favor, of usage, or of local custom, for the payment of bills of exchange, are abolished. Code de Com. art. 185. See 8 Verm. 833; 2 Port. 286; 1 Conn. 329; 1 Pick. 401; 2 Pick. 125; 3 Pick. 414; 1 N. & M. 83.
DISGRACE (bouvier)	DISGRACE. Ignominy, shame, dishonor. No witness is required to disgrace himself. 13 How. St. Tr. 17, 334; 16 How. St. Tr. 161. Vide Crimination; To Degrade.
GRACE (bouvier)	GRACE. That which a person is not entitled to by law, but which is extended to him as a favor; a pardon, for example, is an act of grace. There are- certain days allowed to a payer of a promissory note or bill of exchange, beyond the time which appears on its face, which are called days of grace. (q. v.)

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