grassflnch 
ing or vesper-bird of Xorth America, Poaeeetei gramiuau 
a common sparrow about 6J inches long, with bay lesser 
wmg-covertsaml white lateral tail-leathers. See J'ucecetes 
(b) A grassquit. 
2. One of various small old-world birds of the 
family Ploceida;, and of the genera Spermesles, 
AiiKK/ina, and others. 
est form graxgroeni (= D. grasgroen = G. gras- 
griln = Icel. grasgnmn = Sw. grasgroii = Ban. 
grwsgron), < gras, grass, + grene, green.] I. a. 
Green as grass; specifically, somewhat yellow- 
ish-green, of full chroma but rather low lumi- 
nosity, suggesting rather than resembling the 
color of grass in the sunlight. 
Thrice she blew on a grass-green horn. 
Alison Gross (Child's Ballads, I. 189). 
At his head a gram-green turf, 
At his heels a stone. 
Shak., Hamlet, iv. 6 (song). 
A gown of grass-green silk she wore. 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
II. . The color of grass. Hill. 
grass-grown (gras'gron), a. Overgrown with 
grass. 
grass-hand, grass-character (gras'hand.-kar*- 
ak-ter), n. The cursive or running hand used 
by the Chinese, Japanese, etc., in business and 
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the long and slender antenn.-e, and by other characters, 
from those members of the family Arritlidic (often called 
locusts) which are called grasshoppers. See locuxt, Locuxta, 
Loeiutidtr. Long-horned grasshopper, a green grass- 
hopper; a member of the family Loeuntidit. See def. 1 (). 
-Short-horned grasshopper, an ordinary grasshop- 
per; a member of the family Acrididce : a locust. See 
def. 1 (c). 
grasshopper-beam 
G rasshopper-beam . 
.. A 
orking-beam 
used in some steam-en- 
gines. It is pivoted at one 
end to a rocking pillar, and 
connected with the piston-rod 
at the other end, a parallel 
motion being used to procure 
the proper movement of the 
piston-rod and the crank-con- 
nections. 
grasshopper-engine 
grassy 
grassquit (gras'kwit), . [< grass -f quit, ap- 
par. imitative of the bird's note.] A kind of 
grassfiuch ; an American bird of the genus */*- 
mopliila or sonic related genus. The grassquiis 
are mostly inhabitants of Central and South America and 
the West Indies. Morelet's grassquit is ,S>-nm////M7 
moreleti, occurring in Texas and .M exico. It is very small, 
a. rocking piiiar: *, radius- (gras'hop-er-enjin), n. 
bar of the parallel motion A form of steam-engine 
pu'tol"d Urcsvc " icalityK>th<! in which the working- 
beam is linked to the 
crank at the middle, and to the supporting cen- 
ter at one end. 
grasshopper-lark (gras'hop-er-lark), n. The 
grasshopper-warbler. [Local, Eng.] 
grasshopper-sparrow (gras'hop-er-spar*'6), n. 
A small fringflline bird of the United States, 
of the genus Coturniculus : so 
Morelefs Grassquit (Sftrmofhila morrlttir, adult male. 
only 4 inches long, the male black and white in bold pat- 
tern, the female olive-brown and buff. Also called pijimiu 
trailing-plant-like irregularity and freedom. 
i grasshopper. There are three species. One grass-snake (gras'suak), . 1. Same as rinned 
y&ttssj&^ffs^tsxssri ued ( st h attTh;^ lder *"f f) - 2 - Iu the 
Le Conte's, C. lecontei. Coues. See cut under Coturni- Uluted tates, the green-snake. 
culus. grass-snipe (gras 'snip), ti. Same 
as grass- 
grass-eart grasart, . n law, an old sma syviine bird of 
customary service of tenants, who brought locustella or Locustella nferia: 
their plows and did one day's work for their its chirping notes : a name extended to sundry grass-table (gras'ta'bl), ti. 
!oi'd- related secies. See cut under Ls earth-table. 
What is termed the grass hand, which is very much 
abbreviated and exceedingly difiicult to acquire. Unless 
the square hand of a particular "grass" character be 
known, it is often wholly impossible to look it up in a die- 
Encyc. Brit., TOO. 586. grasshopper-warbler (gras'hop-6r-warbler), bir 'l- 
grass-heartht (gras'harth), n. In law, an old A small sylviine bird of Europe, Saliearia grass-sponge (gras'spunj), w. The honeycomb- 
TO : so called from 8 P on g. e ' Npoiigia equina cerebriformis. 
In arch., same as 
related "species. See cut under Locustella. earth-table. 
grasshopt, grasshoppet, . [< ME. grashoppe, grassiness (gras'i-nes), w. The condition of be- grass-tree (gras'tre), n. An Australian plant 
" abounding with grass. of tne juncaceous genus Xanthorrhasa, having 
a stout trunk-like caudex bearing a tuft of long, 
of grass, r ] grass-like, wiry foliage, and a tall flower-stalk 
,, - ---,..-_,,, , .__.- dstothein- with a dense cylindrical spike of small flowers. 
r hoppa, a hopper, leaper, < hoppian, hop, fluence of air, moisture, and light for the pur- ^ ne y abound in a resin known as blackboy gum 
leap: see hop 1 . Of. AS. gtersstapa, a locust, pose of bleaching. or acaroid gum. Also called blackboy or black- 
agshopper, < gars, grass, + stapa, a stepper.] grass-land (gras'land), . In ai/ri., land kept boy-tree. 
The earlier form of grasshopper. perpetually under grass, as contrasted with land grassumt, " See get-some. 
To lefe-worme thar fruit gafe he which is alternately under grass and tillage; grass-vetch (gras'vech), n. A plant, Latliyrus 
And thar swynkes to gresxhope to be. permanent pasture. - ixsolia, an English species: so called from its 
PS. Ixxvii. [ixxviii.] 46 (ME. version), grass-linen (gras'lin'en), w. A fine grass-cloth, grass-like leaves. 
T (gras'hop"er), ,,. [< MEgrashop- A strip of sheer, delicate grass-linen. grass-warbler (gras'war'bler), . 
Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite viii J*arbler of the genus I)rymasca._ 
grasshoppe: 
per, grashopjiyr (= D". grashupper = LG. grds- 
" '. graslioppe, the older form (see (/rec- 
-mailt 
order Orthoptera of which the hind legs are 
fitted for leaping, and of which the males, if 
-nged, produce a shrill, grating sound or 
Grass-week (gras'wek), . 
The rent payable gee the extract. 
An African 
Rogation week. 
. A pyralid moth of 
; a veneer. The species 
are numerous. See cut under Crambitlte. 
This rogation week was called in the Inns of Court 
grass-week, because the commons then consisted chiefly of 
salads and vegetables. Fosbroke, Cyc. of Antiquities. 
I'o), n. [= LG. gras- 
stridulation. The name is given to numerous species, oS^rt"^ ' tV! ' "rZ 'wedewe; as grass + widow'. ' Cf . equiv. Sw. W 
of_three different families :.(,) Some of the larg/gree,; ^S^l &OL ^L^ J.^., .L Uber U , S ** = Dan. fNorw.) graze** , < few. gras, Dan. 
crickets which leap, belonging to the family Gryllida:, as 
Oryllus viridismnus or Orocliari* sallator. All such have 
very long and thready antennae. (6) Certain of the long- 
horned or green grasshoppers or katydids of thje family 
Locustula, having long and thready a 
root of a sedge, Ci/pcrn,f repens, sometimes cul- 
tivated and used for food, 
grass-oil (gras'oil), w. A 
gra-s, grass, + Sw. enka, Dan. enJce, a widow, 
Any member of the family Acrididce, more fully calli 
short-horned grasshoppers, and also locusts. This is the 
usual popular application of the name grasshopper, but 
not the usual book-name, which is locust. They are 
. -..>. *T.J, yiCivuJ!^ v,uiv/i*tll<*-V711, ^S. I t'/fll'f.V, 
yielding lemon-grass oil or oil of verbena, and 
' : obtained oil of 
humorous terms, in which the allusion 
(the 

neous). The explanation reflected in the dial. 
projecting beyond the body, and long aender'legs," the jrr'aasoni ~~Sam7 as arrmm, Cable to the non - E nglisb forms.] 1. An unmar- 
RatttAS^QUKHS K^rrakeet (^^t), n. A par- K^S^AS^K^S& T SSS& 
torius. The Kocky Mountain locust or hateful grasshop- S*rf^|^. J SS&^ j^K: ^25,^ f'V^' " *SXStiSSfl 
keets most commonly seen in confinement, and more fully reSKimg at a distance on account of business : 
called zebra grass-parrakeet. It is a native of Australia, and also often applied to a divorced woman, or to a 
notable for warbling or twittering a few musical notes, wife who has been abandoned by her husband, 
whence the generic name. It is a very pretty bird, about J 
Grass-tndows used to be women whose husbands were 
working for months together at long distances from home, 
and so only able at intervals to visit their wives and fami- 
lies. A woman thus situated whose conduct was not eir- 
Female Red-legged Grasshopper (Calopte. 
per, which commits serious ravages in the West, is Calop- 
tenus spretus, closely related to the common red legged 
grasshopper, C. femur-rubrum. (See also cut under Calo-p- 
taius.) Acridimn americanum is a large and handsome 
species common in the United States. The lubber-grass- 
hopper is a large clumsy locust of the West, Brac/n/stola 
magna. See cut under Bracht/stola. 
Even these of them ye may eat ; the locust after his 
kind, . . . and the grasshopper after his kind. Lev. xi. 22. 
For now the noonday quiet holds the hill ; 
The grasshopper is silent in the grass. 
Tennyson, (Enone. 
2. A young lobster. [Nantucket, Massachu- 
setts, U. S.] 3. In pianoforte-making, the lever 
cumspect was said to be "out at grass." 
N. and Q., 6th ser., X. 526. 
She is a grass-widow ; her husband is something in some 
Saturday Ken., Feb. 11, 1882. 
Indian service. 
7 inches long, of slender form, with a long, thin, pointed 
tail. The under parts are uniform bright green, and the 
upper pails are mostly undulated with yellow and blackish 
curved cross-bars ; the face is yellow, with several small 
steel-blue spots ; the tail is party-colored, and inclining to 
blue on the middle pair of feathers. These little birds 
bear confinement well, become very tame, and make inter- 
esting pets. They are regularly exported from Australia, 
and much has been written upon their breeding in con- _ , . , . ,. 
flnement. This is the only species of its genus ; but those grass-WlQOWer (gras wid"o-er), n. A man who, 
of Euphema are seven. See cut under Euphema. for any reason, is living apart from his wife, 
grass-plot, graSS-plat (gras'plot, -plat), . A All the grass-widowers and unmarried men. 
plot or spot covered with grass, sometimes, in N w York Evening Post, Hay 22, 1886. 
ornamental grounds, with small beds of flowers grass-worm (gras'werm), . The fall army- 
interspersed. _ worm. See cut under Lapliygma. 
grass-wrack (gras'rak), n . The eel-grass, Zoste- 
ra marina, a naiadaceous plant with long grass- 
like leaves, growing on the sea-coast and in es- 
-..- , eno'thesky . . . 
Bias thee leave these ; and with her sovereign grace 
Here on this grass-plot, in this very place. 
To come and sport. Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. 
or jack at the back* of a "key which throws the grass-plover (graa'pluv''^), n. Same as Held- t y a i rieS h 1 ?ri Sllal l? W rfv. ater ' Jt is U8ed for the P ackl "8 
hammer against the string. Also called hop- Jtlorer. ^ [Local, New Eng.] made o'f i ra^eSkllyto thTn'orth'o'i Europe' C frequelltly 
-0 1 .] 1. Covered 
with grass; abounding with grass. 
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