Agraffe :: Agraffe (n.) A hook or clasp.

Agraffe :: Agraffe (n.) A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration..

Draff :: Draff (n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.

Draff :: Draff (n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught..

Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..

Draff :: Draff (n.) An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange..

Draff :: Draff (n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods.

Draff :: Draff (n.) A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught..

Draff :: Draff (n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught..

Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face..

Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter..

Draff :: Draff (n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

Draff :: Draff (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

Draff :: Draff (n.) A current of air. Same as Draught.

Draffish :: Draffish (a.) Worthless; draffy.

Draffy :: Draffy (a.) Dreggy; waste; worthless.

Engraff :: Engraff (v. t.) To graft; to fix deeply.

Engraffment :: Engraffment (n.) See Ingraftment.

Giraffe :: Giraffe (n.) An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs..

Graff :: Graff (n.) A steward; an overseer.

Graff :: Graff (n. & v.) See Graft.

Graffage :: Graffage (n.) The scarp of a ditch or moat.

Graffer :: Graffer (n.) a notary or scrivener.

Graffiti :: Graffiti (n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii..

Ingraff :: Ingraff (v. t.) See Ingraft.

Intertraffic :: Intertraffic (n.) Mutual trade of traffic.

Misgraff :: Misgraff (v. t.) To misgraft.

Overaffect :: Overaffect (v. t.) To affect or care for unduly.

Paraffin :: Paraffin (n.) Alt. of Paraffin.

Paraffine :: Paraffine (n.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or

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