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4 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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