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.
