a. [ Cf. F. disgracieux. ] Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Disgracing. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Any of several small dull or metallic-colored tineoid moths whose larvae mine in plant leaves; a member of the
prop. n. A natural family of moths, the larvae of which are one type of leaf miner.
n. [ L. gracilitas; cf. F. gracilité. ] State of being gracilent; slenderness. Milman. “Youthful gracility.” W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Same as Gracillariidae.
a. [ F. gracieux, L. gratiosus. See Grace. ]
A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. Neh. ix. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]
So hallowed and so gracious in the time. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . .
There was not such a gracious creature born. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
n. Quality of being gracious. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. in- not + gracious. ] Ungracious; unkind. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. malgracieux. ] Not graceful; displeasing. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not gracious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]
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