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v. t. Same as Abraid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Aggraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrading. ] (Phys. Geog.) To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A westerly wind which blows nearly continuously between 30° and 50° of latitude in both the northern and the southern hemisphere. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. balustrade, It. balaustrata fr. balaustro. See Baluster. ] (Arch.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, or the eaves of a building, or as a guard railing on a staircase; -- it serves as a guard to prevent people from falling.
Syn. -- bannister, banister, balusters, handrail, guard rail. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Yugoslavia. Population (2000) = 1, 168, 454. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F. See Comrade. ] Comradeship and loyalty.

The spirit of camaraderie is strong among these riders of the plains. W. A. Fraser. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Comrade. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. centum a hundred + gradus degree: cf. F. centigrade. ] Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10° centigrade (or 10° C.). In measurements, abreviated C. [ 1913 Webster ]

Centigrade thermometer, a thermometer having the zero or 0 at the point indicating the freezing state of water, and the distance between that and the point indicating the boiling state of water divided into one hundred degrees. It is called also the Celsius thermometer, from Anders Celsius, the originator of this scale. Measurements are reported as ° C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. charade, cf. Pr. charrada long chat, It ciarlare to chat, whence E. charlatan. ] A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cilium + L. gradi to step: cf. F. ciliograde. ] (Zool.) Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cirrus + L. gradi to walk. ] (Biol.) Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. citigrade. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to the Citigradæ. -- n. One of the Citigradæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. camarada, fr. L. camara, a chamber; hence, a chamber-fellowship, and then a chamber-fellow: cf. F. camarade. Cf. Chamber. ] A mate, companion, or associate. [ 1913 Webster ]

And turned my flying comrades to the charge. J. Baillie. [ 1913 Webster ]

I abjure all roofs, and choose . . .
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. like a comrade; heartily friendly and congenial.
Syn. -- hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. camarederie. ] The spirit of comradeship; comradeship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

“Certainly”, said Dunham, with the comradery of the smoker. W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. corradere, -rasum; cor- + radere to rub. ] 1. To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume. [ Obs. ] Dr. R. Clerke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Degraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Degrading. ] [ F. dégrader, LL. degradare, fr. L. de- + gradus step, degree. See Grade, and cf. Degree. ] 1. To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man. [ 1913 Webster ]

O miserable mankind, to what fall
Degraded, to what wretched state reserved! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet time ennobles or degrades each line. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geol.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

Syn. -- To abase; demean; lower; reduce. See Abase. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Biol.) To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Netherlands . . . were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. F. degré step. ] (Her.) Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. digitus finger, toe + gradi to step, walk: cf. F. digitigrade. ] (Zool.) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To degrade. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'e`nteron an intestine + &unr_; a gland + -graphy. ] A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'e`nteron an intestine + &unr_; a gland + -logy. ] The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. Sp. estrado, orig., a carpet on the floor of a room, also, a carpeted platform, fr. L. stratum bed covering. See Stratum. ] (Arch.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ the teacher ] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. Congress, Degree, Gradus. ] 1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. [ 1913 Webster ]

They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure,
teachers of every grade. Buckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. [ 1913 Webster ]

At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. --
Down grade, a descent, as on a graded railroad. --
Up grade, an ascent, as on a graded railroad. --
Equating for grades. See under Equate. --
Grade crossing, a crossing at grade. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Graded; p. pr. & vb. n. Grading. ] 1. To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Stock Breeding) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. ordered by some quantitative ranking; as, Reading tests of graded difficulty.
Syn. -- ordered, ranked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. leveled and drained but not paved; -- of roads.
Syn. -- graveled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. AS. grad grade, step, order, fr. L. gradus. See Grade. ] Decent; orderly. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. -- adv. Decently; in order. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

2. Specifically: A vehicle used for levelling earth, esp. one with a plow blade suspended from the center, used specifically for grading roads. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. gravis heavy + gradus step. ] (Zool.) Slow-paced. -- n. One of the pachyderms. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. to negotiate with much give and take. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. relating to areas between the layers of the skin. an intradermal injection
Syn. -- intradermic, intracutaneous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as intradermal.
Syn. -- intradermal, intracutaneous. [ PJC ]

n. [ Turk. ] A decree of the Sultan. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. inferior; as, low-grade ore. Opposite of high-grade. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ F. mascarade, fr. Sp. mascarada, or It. mascherata. See Mask. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. [ 1913 Webster ]

In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise. [ 1913 Webster ]

That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A Spanish diversion on horseback. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Masqueraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Masquerading. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not. [ 1913 Webster ]

A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To conceal with masks; to disguise. “To masquerade vice.” Killingbeck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. palma palm of the hand + gradi to walk. ] (Zool.) Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See Pare, v. t. ] 1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. Also called parade ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: Any imposing procession; the movement of any group of people marshaled in military order, especially a festive public procession, which may include a marching band, persons in varied costume, vehicles with elaborate displays, and other forms of entertainment, held in commemoration or celebration of an event or in honor of a person or persons; as, a parade of firemen; a Thanksgiving Day parade; a Memorial Day parade; a ticker-tape parade. [ PJC ]

In state returned the grand parade. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence: A pompous show; a formal or ostentatious display or exhibition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Posture of defense; guard. [ A Gallicism. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A public walk; a promenade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dress parade,
Undress parade. See under Dress, and Undress. --
Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Ostentation; display; show. -- Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. “It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.” Robertson. “We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories.” Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Parading. ] [ Cf. F. parader. ] 1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Parading all her sensibility. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review or in a public celebratory parade{ 3 }. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One who walks with regular or stately step.
Syn. -- marcher. [ WordNet 1.5 ]