Part 4919

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.</def>

<blockquote><b>Grace</b> in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. <i>Hazlitt.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the <b>grace</b> of the gift. <i>Longfellow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Myth.)</fld> <def>Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>Graces</b> love to weave the rose. <i>Moore.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The Loves delighted, and the <b>Graces</b> played. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.</def>

<blockquote>How fares your <b>Grace</b> ! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <fld>(Commonly pl.)</fld> <def>Thanks.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Yielding <b>graces</b> and thankings to their lord Melibeus. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.</def>

<p><b>11.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called <i>grace notes</i>, <i>appeggiaturas</i>, <i>turns</i>, etc.</def>

<p><b>12.</b> <fld>(Eng. Universities)</fld> <def>An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.</def>

<i>Walton.</i>

<p><b>13.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also <altname>grace hoop</altname> or <altname>hoops</altname>.</def>

<cs><col>Act of grace</col>. <cd>See under <er>Act</er>.</cd> -- <col>Day of grace</col></mcol> <fld>(Theol.)</fld>, <cd>the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted.</cd>

<blockquote>That day of <b>grace</b> fleets fast away. <i>I. Watts.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>Days of grace</col> <fld>(Com.)</fld>, <cd>the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the <i>days of grace</i> are <i>three</i>, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different.</cd> -- <col>Good graces</col></mcol>, <cd>favor; friendship.</cd> -- <col>Grace cup</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A health drunk after grace has been said.</cd>

<blockquote>The <b>grace</b> cup follows to his sovereign's health. <i>Hing.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>Grace drink</col>, <cd>a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup.</cd>

<blockquote>To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the <b>grace drink</b>, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. <i>Encyc. Brit.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>Grace hoop</col>, <cd>a hoop used in playing graces. See <er>Grace</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 13.</cd> -- <col>Grace note</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>an appoggiatura. See <er>Appoggiatura</er>, and def. 11 above.</cd> -- <col>Grace stroke</col>, <cd>a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace.</cd> -- <col>Means of grace</col>, <cd>means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc.</cd> -- <col>To do grace</col>, <cd>to reflect credit upon.</cd>

<blockquote>Content to do the profession some <b>grace</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To say grace</col>, <cd>to render thanks before or after a meal.</cd> -- <col>With a good grace</col>, <cd>in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously.</cd> -- <col>With a bad grace</col></mcol>, <cd>in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously.</cd>

<blockquote>What might have been done with a good <b>grace</b> would at least be done with a bad grace. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote> </cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy.</syn> -- <usage><er>Grace</er>, <er>Mercy</er>. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. <i>Grace</i>, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the <i>grace</i> of God that opened a way for the exercise of <i>mercy</i> toward men. See <er>Elegance</er>.</usage>

<h1>Grace</h1> <Xpage=642>

<hw>Grace</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Graced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gracing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.</def>