Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Grand"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mogul \Mo*gul"\, n. [From the Mongolian.]
1. A person of the Mongolian race.

2. (Railroad) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having
three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled
truck.

{Great}, or {Grand}, {Mogul}, the sovereign of the empire
founded in Hindostan by the Mongols under Baber in the
sixteenth century. Hence, a very important personage; a
lord; -- sometimes only {mogul}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Climacteric \Cli*mac"ter*ic\, n.
1. A period in human life in which some great change is
supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical
periods are thought by some to be the years produced by
multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to
which others add the 81st year.

2. Any critical period.

It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one
of the grand climacterics of the world. --Southey.

{Grand} or {Great climacteric}, the sixty-third year of human
life.

I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be
regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand
climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to
stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds
of their barbarous metaphysics. --Burke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Grand \Grand\, a. [Compar. {Grander}; superl. {Grandest}.] [OE.
grant, grount, OF. grant, F. grand, fr. L. grandis; perh.
akin to gravis heavy, E. grave, a. Cf. {Grandee}.]
1. Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence,
relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand
mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake. ``Our grand foe,
Satan.'' --Milton.

Making so bold . . . to unseal Their grand
commission. --Shak.

2. Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or
impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of
persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime
(said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a
grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.

They are the highest models of expression, the
unapproached masters of the grand style. --M.
Arnold.

3. Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance
than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand
lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.

4. Standing in the second or some more remote degree of
parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition;
as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.

What cause Mov'd our grand parents, in that happy
state, Favor'd of Heaven so highly, to fall off From
their Creator. --Milton.

{Grand action}, a pianoforte action, used in grand pianos, in
which special devices are employed to obtain perfect
action of the hammer in striking and leaving the string.


{Grand Army of the Republic}, an organized voluntary
association of men who served in the Union army or navy
during the civil war in the United States. The order has
chapters, called Posts, throughout the country.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

grand
adj 1: impressive in scale; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand
manner" [syn: {expansive}]
2: of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of
august lineage" [syn: {august}, {lordly}]
3: impressive in size or scope; "heroic undertakings" [syn: {heroic}]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn:
{thousand}, {one thousand}, {1000}, {M}, {K}, {chiliad},
{G}, {thou}, {yard}]
2: a piano with the strings on a harp-shaped frame; usually
supported by 3 legs [syn: {grand piano}]


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