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Sprag :: Sprag (v. t.) To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel..

Ensign :: Ensign (n.) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army..

Degrade :: Degrade (v. t.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down..

Matte :: Matte (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color..

Grade :: Grade (n.) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient..

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.

Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university..

Deposer :: Deposer (n.) One who deposes or degrades from office.

Digitigrade :: Digitigrade (n.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot..

Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc..

Graduate :: Graduate (n.) To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College..

Grade :: Grade (n.) A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour..

Disrank :: Disrank (v. t.) To degrade from rank.

Ciliograde :: Ciliograde (a.) Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusae..

Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga..

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.

Plantigrade :: Plantigrade (n.) A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears..

Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.

Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc..

Crith :: Crith (n.) The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains..

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