n. Largest anthropoid ape, native to africa. [greek, perhaps from african = wild man]

n. Druidic order, meeting before the eisteddfod. [welsh, literally ‘throne’]

n. Large short-winged hawk. [old english: related to *goose, *hawk1]

n. Young goose. [old norse: related to *goose]

n. - method of painting in opaque pigments ground in water and thickened with a gluelike substance.

- these pigments. [french from italian]

n. Highly-seasoned hungarian stew of meat and vegetables. [magyar gulyás-hús, = herdsman's meat]

n. Connoisseur of good food. [french]

v. (-ting) 1 (cause to) pass gradually from one shade to another.

- arrange in steps or grades of size etc.

adj. - progressing by degrees.

- not rapid, steep, or abrupt. gradually adv. [latin: related to *grade]

n. - the study or rules of a language's inflections or other means of showing the relation between words.

- observance or application of the rules of grammar (bad grammar).

- book on grammar. [greek gramma letter]

- school n. Esp. Hist. Selective state secondary school with a mainly academic curriculum.