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| Grade |
| [F. grade, L.
gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf.
Congress, Degree, Gradus.] |
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.
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, a heavy grade; a grade
of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
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.
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To arrange in order, steps,
or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
To reduce to a level, or to an evenly
progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
To cross with some
better breed] to improve the blood of.
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