in the United States of America. 483. 
formed me, that the mode of fighting im Virginia and the other 
southern states, is really of that description, mentioned by preced- 
ing travellers, the truth of which many persons have doubted, and 
some even contradicted. Gouging, kicking, and biting are allowed in 
most of their battles....Gouging is performed by twisting the forefinger in 
- a lock of hair, near the temple, and turning the eye out of the socket with 
_ the thumb nail, which is suffered to grow long for that purpose,” Lambert’s 
Travels, vol. ii.p. 300, “A diabolical practice (says the Quarterly Review ) 
which has never disgraced Europe, and for which no other people have 
even a name.’ Quart. Rev. vol. ii. p. 333. The practice itself and the 
_ hame are-both unknown in Vew England. ae 
GOVERNMENTAL ; belonging to a government. 
Areviewer in the Monthly Anthology (vol. vii. p.263) ranks this among 
_ the “ barbarisms in common use” in America. It is not im any of the dic- 
tionaries, nor is it ever used by the English, oe 
GRADE; gradation, degree, rank, order. “ To talents of the highest grade he 
[Hamilton] united a patient industry not always the companion of genius,” 
&c. Marshall’s Life of Washington, vol. v. p- 213. “The high rank he- 
Review (in the account of Marshall’s Life 
of Washington) remarks upon it thus—“At page 367 [of the filth volume | 
and in many other places grade is used for degree, Ann. Rev. vol. vii. 
p- 241, 
y Review, 
To GRADUATE. To take a degree at a university. This yerb was, till lately, 
always used by us as a verb neuter or intransitive: Ex. He graduated ate 
the university of Cambridge; but it is now very common to say, “he 
was graduated at Cambridge,” &c. which is also used in England : “ You, 
methinks, are graduated.” See Brit. Crit. vol. xxxiv. p. 538. But the 
ether mode of using it is aiso common in English authors. In the London. 
_ Monthly Magazine (for Oct. 1808, p, 224) a writer, speaking of Mande-- 
ville, says—“ He graduated at.Leyden in 1691 ;” andjin the same work: 
