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Greater
(gcide) | Great \Great\ (gr[=a]t), a. [Compar. Greater; superl.
Greatest.] [OE. gret, great, AS. gre['a]t; akin to OS. &
LG. gr[=o]t, D. groot, OHG. gr[=o]z, G. gross. Cf. Groat
the coin.]
1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous;
expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great
house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
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2. Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude,
series, etc.
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3. Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time;
as, a great while; a great interval.
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4. Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts,
actions, and feelings.
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5. Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able
to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty;
noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher,
etc.
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6. Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent;
distinguished; foremost; principal; as, great men; the
great seal; the great marshal, etc.
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He doth object I am too great of birth. --Shak.
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7. Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as,
a great argument, truth, or principle.
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8. Pregnant; big (with young).
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The ewes great with young. --Ps. lxxviii.
71.
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9. More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree;
as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
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We have all
Great cause to give great thanks. --Shak.
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10. (Genealogy) Older, younger, or more remote, by single
generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one
degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as,
great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's
father), great-grandson, etc.
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Great bear (Astron.), the constellation Ursa Major.
Great cattle (Law), all manner of cattle except sheep and
yearlings. --Wharton.
Great charter (Eng. Hist.), Magna Charta.
Great circle of a sphere, a circle the plane of which
passes through the center of the sphere.
Great circle sailing, the process or art of conducting a
ship on a great circle of the globe or on the shortest arc
between two places.
Great go, the final examination for a degree at the
University of Oxford, England; -- called also greats.
--T. Hughes.
Great guns. (Naut.) See under Gun.
The Great Lakes the large fresh-water lakes (Lakes
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) which lie on
the northern borders of the United States.
Great master. Same as Grand master, under Grand.
Great organ (Mus.), the largest and loudest of the three
parts of a grand organ (the others being the choir organ
and the swell, and sometimes the pedal organ or foot
keys), It is played upon by a separate keyboard, which has
the middle position.
The great powers (of Europe), in modern diplomacy, Great
Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Italy.
Great primer. See under Type.
Great scale (Mus.), the complete scale; -- employed to
designate the entire series of musical sounds from lowest
to highest.
Great sea, the Mediterranean sea. In Chaucer both the Black
and the Mediterranean seas are so called.
Great seal.
(a) The principal seal of a kingdom or state.
(b) In Great Britain, the lord chancellor (who is
custodian of this seal); also, his office.
Great tithes. See under Tithes.
The great, the eminent, distinguished, or powerful.
The Great Spirit, among the North American Indians, their
chief or principal deity.
To be great (with one), to be intimate or familiar (with
him). --Bacon.
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greater
(wn) | greater
adj 1: greater in size or importance or degree; "for the greater
good of the community"; "the greater Antilles" [ant:
lesser] |
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greater
(mass) | greater
- väčší |
greater
(encz) | greater,větší |
greater antilles
(encz) | Greater Antilles, |
greater burdock
(encz) | greater burdock, n: |
greater butterfly orchid
(encz) | greater butterfly orchid, n: |
greater celandine
(encz) | greater celandine, n: |
greater good
(encz) | Greater Good,dobro věci n: jose |
greater knapweed
(encz) | greater knapweed, n: |
greater kudu
(encz) | greater kudu, n: |
greater masterwort
(encz) | greater masterwort, n: |
greater omentum
(encz) | greater omentum, n: |
greater pectoral muscle
(encz) | greater pectoral muscle, n: |
greater peritoneal sac
(encz) | greater peritoneal sac, n: |
greater pichiciego
(encz) | greater pichiciego, n: |
greater prairie chicken
(encz) | greater prairie chicken, n: |
greater rhomboid muscle
(encz) | greater rhomboid muscle, n: |
greater scaup
(encz) | greater scaup, n: |
greater spearwort
(encz) | greater spearwort, n: |
greater stitchwort
(encz) | greater stitchwort, n: |
greater water parsnip
(encz) | greater water parsnip, n: |
greater whitethroat
(encz) | greater whitethroat, n: |
greater yellowlegs
(encz) | greater yellowlegs, n: |
to a greater extent
(encz) | to a greater extent, adv: |
with greater reason
(encz) | with greater reason, adv: |
Greater Bairam
(gcide) | Bairam \Bai*ram"\, n. [Turk. ba["i]r[=a]m.]
Either of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one (the {Lesser
Bairam}) is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and
the other (the Greater Bairam) seventy days after the fast.
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greater bindweed
(gcide) | Bindweed \Bind"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed
(Convolvulus Sepium); lesser bindweed ({Convolvulus
arvensis}); the white bindweed, the blue bindweed, the
Syrian bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called
black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
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The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings.
--Tennyson.
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greater celandine
(gcide) | Celandine \Cel"an*dine\ (s[e^]l"[a^]n*d[imac]n), n. [OE.
celidoine, OF. celidoine, F. ch['e]lidoine, fr. L. chelidonia
(sc. herba), fr. chelidonius pertaining to the swallow, Gr.
chelido`nios, fr. chelidw`n the swallow, akin to L. hirundo a
swallow.] (Bot.)
A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the
poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine
in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is
used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also {greater
celandine} and swallowwort.
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Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).
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greater Ionic
(gcide) | Ionic \I*on"ic\, n.
1. (Pros.)
(a) A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long
and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in
which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two
short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a
spondee, in which case it is called the {smaller
Ionic}.
(b) A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
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2. The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
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3. (Print.) Ionic type.
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greater pettychaps
(gcide) | Figpecker \Fig"peck`er\ (f[i^]g"p[e^]k`[~e]r), n. (Zool.)
The European garden warbler (Sylvia hortensis or {Currica,
hortensis}); -- called also beccafico and {greater
pettychaps}.
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greater plover
(gcide) | Greenshank \Green"shank`\, n. (Zool.)
A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); --
called also greater plover.
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greater redpoll
(gcide) | Linnet \Lin"net\ (l[i^]n"n[e^]t), n. [F. linot, linotte, from L.
linum flax; or perh. shortened from AS. l[imac]netwige, fr.
AS. l[imac]n flax; -- so called because it feeds on the seeds
of flax and hemp. See Linen.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera
Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common
European species (Linota cannabina), which, in full summer
plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or
less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown,
tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet,
rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, {gorse
thatcher}, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The
American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the
crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.
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Green linnet (Zool.), the European green finch.
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greater
(wn) | greater
adj 1: greater in size or importance or degree; "for the greater
good of the community"; "the greater Antilles" [ant:
lesser] |
greater antilles
(wn) | Greater Antilles
n 1: a group of islands in the western West Indies |
greater burdock
(wn) | greater burdock
n 1: burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland,
hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N)
and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and
culinary use [syn: great burdock, greater burdock,
cocklebur, Arctium lappa] |
greater butterfly orchid
(wn) | greater butterfly orchid
n 1: south European orchid with dark green flowers that are
larger and less fragrant than Platanthera bifolia;
sometimes placed in genus Habenaria [syn: {greater
butterfly orchid}, Platanthera chlorantha, {Habenaria
chlorantha}] |
greater celandine
(wn) | greater celandine
n 1: perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow
flowers [syn: celandine, greater celandine,
swallowwort, swallow wort, Chelidonium majus] |
greater knapweed
(wn) | greater knapweed
n 1: tall European perennial having purple flower heads [syn:
great knapweed, greater knapweed, Centaurea scabiosa] |
greater kudu
(wn) | greater kudu
n 1: a variety of kudu [syn: greater kudu, {Tragelaphus
strepsiceros}] |
greater london
(wn) | Greater London
n 1: the capital and largest city of England; located on the
Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial
and cultural center [syn: London, Greater London,
British capital, capital of the United Kingdom] |
greater masterwort
(wn) | greater masterwort
n 1: European herb with aromatic roots and leaves in a basal
tuft and showy compound umbels of white to rosy flowers
[syn: greater masterwort, Astrantia major] |
greater new orleans bridge
(wn) | Greater New Orleans Bridge
n 1: twin cantilever bridges across the Mississippi at New
Orleans |
greater new york
(wn) | Greater New York
n 1: the largest city in New York State and in the United
States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of
the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
[syn: New York, New York City, Greater New York] |
greater omentum
(wn) | greater omentum
n 1: part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the
colon and covering the intestines [syn: greater omentum,
gastrocolic omentum, caul] |
greater pectoral muscle
(wn) | greater pectoral muscle
n 1: a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm [syn:
pectoralis major, musculus pectoralis major, {greater
pectoral muscle}] |
greater peritoneal sac
(wn) | greater peritoneal sac
n 1: the interior of the peritoneum; a potential space between
layers of the peritoneum [syn: peritoneal cavity,
greater peritoneal sac] |
greater pichiciego
(wn) | greater pichiciego
n 1: of southern South America [syn: greater pichiciego,
Burmeisteria retusa] |
greater prairie chicken
(wn) | greater prairie chicken
n 1: the most common variety of prairie chicken [syn: {greater
prairie chicken}, Tympanuchus cupido] |
greater rhomboid muscle
(wn) | greater rhomboid muscle
n 1: rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the spinal
column [syn: rhomboideus major muscle, {greater rhomboid
muscle}, musculus rhomboideus major] |
greater scaup
(wn) | greater scaup
n 1: large scaup of North America having a greenish iridescence
on the head of the male [syn: greater scaup, {Aythya
marila}] |
greater spearwort
(wn) | greater spearwort
n 1: semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like
spears [syn: greater spearwort, Ranunculus lingua] |
greater stitchwort
(wn) | greater stitchwort
n 1: low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-
shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp
pains in the side [syn: stitchwort, greater stitchwort,
starwort, Stellaria holostea] |
greater sunda islands
(wn) | Greater Sunda Islands
n 1: a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java
and Sumatra |
greater swiss mountain dog
(wn) | Greater Swiss Mountain dog
n 1: the largest of the four Swiss breeds |
greater water parsnip
(wn) | greater water parsnip
n 1: large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow
fresh water; Europe [syn: greater water parsnip, {Sium
latifolium}] |
greater whitethroat
(wn) | greater whitethroat
n 1: greyish-brown Old World warbler with a white throat and
underparts [syn: greater whitethroat, whitethroat,
Sylvia communis] |
greater yellowlegs
(wn) | greater yellowlegs
n 1: a variety of yellowlegs [syn: greater yellowlegs, {Tringa
melanoleuca}] |
to a greater extent
(wn) | to a greater extent
adv 1: used to form the comparative of some adjectives and
adverbs; "more interesting"; "more beautiful"; "more
quickly" [syn: more, to a greater extent] [ant:
less, to a lesser extent] |
greater than
(foldoc) | greater than
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