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10. (Genealogy) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great- grandson, etc.

Great bear (Astron.), the constellation Ursa Major. -- Great cattle (Law), all manner of cattle except sheep and yearlings. Wharton. -- Great charter (Eng. Hist.), Magna Charta. -- Great circle of a sphere, a circle the plane of which passes through the center of the sphere. -- Great circle sailing, the process or art of conducting a ship on a great circle of the globe or on the shortest arc between two places. -- Great go, the final examination for a degree at the University of Oxford, England; -- called also greats. T. Hughes. -- Great guns. (Naut.) See under Gun. -- The Great Lakes the large fresh-water lakes (Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) which lie on the northern borders of the United States. -- Great master. Same as Grand master, under Grand. -- Great organ (Mus.), the largest and loudest of the three parts of a grand organ (the others being the choir organ and the swell, and sometimes the pedal organ or foot keys), It is played upon by a separate keyboard, which has the middle position. -- The great powers (of Europe), in modern diplomacy, Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Italy. -- Great primer. See under Type. -- Great scale (Mus.), the complete scale; -- employed to designate the entire series of musical sounds from lowest to highest. -- Great sea, the Mediterranean sea. In Chaucer both the Black and the Mediterranean seas are so called. -- Great seal. (a) The principal seal of a kingdom or state. (b) In Great Britain, the lord chancellor (who is custodian of this seal); also, his office. -- Great tithes. See under Tithes. -- The great, the eminent, distinguished, or powerful. -- The Great Spirit, among the North American Indians, their chief or principal deity. -- To be great (with one), to be intimate or familiar (with him). Bacon.

Great (?), n. The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.

Great"-bel`lied (?), a. Having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.

Great"coat" (?), n. An overcoat.

Great"en (?), v. t. To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.]

A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king].

Ken.

Great"en, v. i. To become large; to dilate. [R.]

My blue eyes greatening in the looking- glass.

Mrs. Browning.

Great"-grand"child` (?), n. The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.

Great"-grand"daugh`ter (?), n. [See Great, 10.] A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.

Great"-grand"fa`ther (?), n. [See Great, 10.] The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.

Great"-grand"moth`er (?), n. The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

Great"-grand"son` (?), n. [See Great, 10.] A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.

Great"-heart`ed (?), a. 1. High-spirited; fearless. [Obs.] Clarendon.

2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.

Great"-heart`ed*ness, n. The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.

Great"ly, adv. 1. In a great degree; much.

I will greatly multiply thy sorrow.

Gen. iii. 16.

2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously.

By a high fate thou greatly didst expire.

Dryden.

Great"ness, n. [AS. gre·tnes.] 1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

2. Pride; haughtiness. [Obs.]

It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships.