Grammates
(Gram"mates) n. pl. [From Gr. letters, written rules.] Rudiments; first principles, as of grammar.
[Obs.] Ford.
Grammatic
(Gram*mat"ic) a. Grammatical.
Grammatical
(Gram*mat"ic*al) a. [L. grammaticus, grammaticalis; Gr. skilled in grammar, knowing
one's letters, from a letter: cf. F. grammatical. See Grammar.]
1. Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.
2. According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the
construction is not grammatical.
—Gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. — Gram*mat"ic*al*ness, n.
Grammaticaster
(Gram*mat"icas"ter) n. [LL.] A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
My noble Neophite, my little grammaticaster.
B. Jonson. Grammatication
(Gram*mat"i*ca"tion) n. A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule. [Obs.] Dalgarno.
Grammaticism
(Gram*mat"i*cism) n. A point or principle of grammar. Abp. Leighton.
Grammaticize
(Gram*mat"i*cize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grammaticized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Grammaticizing
] To render grammatical. Fuller.
Grammatist
(Gram"ma*tist) n. [L. grammatista schoolmaster, Gr. from to teach the letters, to be a
scribe: cf. F. grammatiste. See Grammatical.] A petty grammarian. [R] Tooke.
Gramme
(Gramme) n. Same as Gram the weight.
Gramme machine
(Gramme" ma*chine") (Elec.) A kind of dynamo-electric machine; — so named from
its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
Grampus
(Gram"pus) n.; pl. Grampuses [Probably corrupted from It. gran pesce great fish, or Sp.
gran pez, or Pg. gran peixe, all fr. L. grandis piscis. See Grand, and Fish. the animal.]
1. (Zoöl.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America,
which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks.
Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.
2. A kind of tongs used in a bloomery. [U.S.]
Granade
(Gra*nade" Gra*na"do) n. See Grenade.
Granadilla
(||Gran`a*dil"la) n. [Sp., dim. of granada pomegranate. See Grenade, Garnet.] (Bot.)
The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the
West Indies. It is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of Passiflora edulis is
used for flavoring ices.
Granary
(Gran"a*ry) n.; pl. Granaries [L. granarium, fr. granum grain. See Garner.] A storehouse
or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse; also a region fertile in grain.
The exhaustless granary of a world.
Thomson. Granate
(Gran"ate) n. See Garnet.
