Part 4922

<hw>Gra*da"tion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.</def>

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<hw>Grad"a*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Grade</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual.</def>

<blockquote>Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this <b>gradatory</b> apostasy have been shown us. <i>A. Seward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.</def>

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<hw>Grad"a*to*ry</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>gradatarium</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A series of steps from a cloister into a church.</def>

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<hw>Grade</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>grade</ets>, L. <ets>gradus</ets> step, pace, grade, from <ets>gradi</ets> to step, go. Cf. <er>Congress</er>, <er>Degree</er>, <er>Gradus</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; <as>as, <ex>grades</ex> of military rank; crimes of every <ex>grade</ex>; <ex>grades</ex> of flour.</as></def>

<blockquote>They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every <b>grade</b>. <i>Buckle.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>In a railroad or highway</fld>: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>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>as, a heavy <ex>grade</ex></as>; a <i>grade</i> of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Stock Breeding)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<cs><col>At grade</col>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <col>Down grade</col>, <cd>a descent, as on a graded railroad.</cd> -- <col>Up grade</col>, <cd>an ascent, as on a graded railroad.</cd> -- <col>Equating for grades</col>. <cd>See under <er>Equate</er>.</cd> -- <col>Grade crossing</col>, <cd>a crossing at grade.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Grade</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Graded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Grading</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Stock Breeding)</fld> <def>To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.</def>

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<hw>Grade"ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. AS. <ets>grad</ets> grade, step, order, fr. L. <ets>gradus</ets>. See <er>Grade</er>.]</ety> <def>Decent; orderly.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark> <i>Halliwell</i>. -- <def2><tt>adv.</tt> <def>Decently; in order.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark></def2>

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<hw>Grad"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitate.

<-- 2. A vehicle used for levelling earth, esp. one with a plow blade suspended from the center, used specifically for grading roads. -->

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<hw>Gra"di*ent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>gradiens</ets>, <ets>p. pr.</ets> of <ets>gradi</ets> to step, to go. See <er>Grade</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Moving by steps; walking; <as>as, gradient automata</as>.</def>

<i>Wilkins.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; <as>as, the gradient line of a railroad</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birsds.</def>

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