Part 580

Grad"u*ate, a. [See Graduate, n. & v.] Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages.

Tatham.

Grad"u*a"ted (?), a. 1. Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.

2. (Zoˆl.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.

Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.

Grad"u*ate*ship, n. State of being a graduate. Milton.

Grad"u*a"tion (?), n. [LL. graduatio promotion to a degree: cf. F. graduation division into degrees.]

1. The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.

2. The marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or quantity; a scale.

3. The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.

Grad"u*a"tor (?), n. 1. One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments.

2. An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals.

3. An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.

||Gra"dus (?), n. [From L. gradus ad Parnassum a step to Parnassus.] A ||dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin ||poetry.

He set to work . . . without gradus or other help.

T. Hughes.

||Graf (?), n. [G. Cf. -grave.] A German title of nobility, equivalent ||to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.

Graff (?), n. [OE. grafe, greife, greive. Cf. Margrave.] A steward; an overseer.

John Knox.

Graff n. & v. See Graft.

Graff"age (?), n. [Cf. Grave, n.] The scarp of a ditch or moat. "To clean the graffages." Miss Mitford.

Graf"fer (?), n. [See Greffier.] (Law.) a notary or scrivener. Bouvier.

<! p. 643 !>

||Graf*fi"ti (?), n. pl. [It., pl. of graffito scratched] Inscriptions, ||figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ||ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.

Graft (?), n. [OE. graff, F. greffe, originally the same word as OF. grafe pencil, L. graphium, Gr. &?;, &?;, fr. &?; to write; prob. akin to E. carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Cf. Graphic, Grammar.] (a) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. (b) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. (c) (Surg.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

Graft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grafting.] [F. greffer. See Graft, n.] 1. To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. [Formerly written graff.]

2. (Surg.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.