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.

High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode.
Dryden.

Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

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.

2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Grace"less*ly, adv.Grace"less-ness, n.

Gracile
(Grac"ile Grac"il*lent) a. [L. gracilis, gracilentus.] Slender; thin. [Obs.] Bailey.

Gracility
(Gra*cil"i*ty) n. [L. gracilitas; cf. F. gracilité.] State of being gracilent; slenderness. Milman. "Youthful gracility." W. D. Howells.

Gracious
(Gra"cious) a. [F. gracieux, L. gratiosus. See Grace.]

1. Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love, or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.

A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful.
Neh. ix. 17.

So hallowed and so gracious in the time.
Shak.

2. Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.

Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . .
There was not such a gracious creature born.
Shak.

3. Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.

Syn. — Favorable; kind; benevolent; friendly; beneficent; benignant; merciful.

Graciously
(Gra"cious*ly) adv.

1. In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. Dryden.

2. Fortunately; luckily. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Graciousness
(Gra"cious*ness), n. Quality of being gracious.

Grackle
(Grac"kle) n. [Cf. L. graculus jackdaw.] (Zoöl.) (a) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridæ; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat- tail); the purple grackle See Crow blackbird, under Crow. (b) An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.

Gradate
(Gra"date) v. t. [See Grade.]

1. To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.

2. (Chem.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.


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