GRA 
GRA 
-ceiling- Now came is a complex term for 
one species of motion ; falls for another ; 
hangs for a species of attachment. Have 
we occasion to mention tile beginning or 
, commencement of these motions and this at- 
tachment, and the place where they begin 
or commence ? What more natural or more 
simple than to add the signs of these ideas, 
viz. the word beginning, (which always re- 
mains the same,) and the name of the place 
(which will perpetually vary.) Figs came 
beginning Turkey ; 
gaining ceiling : i. 
beginning to come 
be- 
'“K \ Sf , 
e. Turkey the place of 
ceiling the place of be 
ginning to j £ang- | To is the Gothic 
substantive Unit, act, effect, end, or result, 
■which is itself the past participle of taugan, 
to do. While is an Anglo-Saxon substan- 
tive, signifying time ; till, is to-while, to the 
time ; until, is on to the time. Of is pro- 
bably a fragment of the Anglo-Saxon sub- 
stantive afora, offspring, &c. and always 
means consequence, offspring, succession, 
follower, &c. In all the instances pro- 
duced in the dictionaries, cause may be sub- 
stituted for for, without injury to the sense, 
though sometimes aukwardly. It is pro- 
bably the Gdthic substantive fairina, cause. 
Bp is the imperative of be on, to be ; fre- 
quently, but not always, used with an ab- 
breviation of construction, instrument, cause, 
agent, &c. bejrng understood. Among is the 
past participle of gamwngan, to mingle. 
After is the comparative of aft. About is 
from boda fhefiist outward boundary or ex- 
tremity of any thing ; hence onboda', onbuta, 
abut a, about. In, out, on, of, and at, Mr. 
Tooke does not profess to trace to an origin ■ 
we feel little doubt that on is simply one of 
the several forms of the numeral one ; and 
the same process of thought has occurred in 
the Greek, where a; and i v (and perhaps 
also avi) are almost indisputably the cor- 
responding nnmeral. Wc should have thought 
it probable that the English in has the same 
origin as on, if Mr. H. Tooke had not pro- 
duced the Gothic substantive inna, the in- 
terior part of the body (used also for cave 
or celi.) Qut he thinks not improbably 
originally meant skin. 
A III. Of the Interjection. 
42. We have very little to say in addition 
to what we have said respecting this small 
and insignificant class of words. Oh, or 0,is 
almost the only word for which it is ne- 
cessary. A few other words may be men- 
tioned as being usually classed with it. 
Farewell is the imperative o ifaran to go, and 
the adverb well. Halt is the imperative of 
liealdan, to hold. Lo is the imperative of 
look. Fie is the imperative of fan, to hate. 
Welcome means, it is well that you are 
come. Adieu, used so often without a mo- 
ment’s thought as to its serious import, is 
the Fi ench <1 dieu, to God, meaning, I com- 
mend you to God. 
GRAMME, in French weights. The 
unit weight, called a gramme, is the weight 
of the cube of the hundredth part of the 
metre of distilled water, taken at its maxi- 
mum density. It answers to 15.444 grains. 
The kilogramme, or the weight of a thou- 
sand grammes is equal to 32) Troy ounces. 
GRANARY, a building to lay or store 
corn in, especially that designed to be kept 
a considerable time. 
GRANATITE, cross stone, a mineral 
found in Spain, and in some parts of France 
and Switzerland. It is crystallized in a very 
peculiar form ; two six-sided prisms inter- 
sect each other at right angles, or obliquely. 
Hence its name, cross stone. It is of a 
reddish brown colour : specific gravity 3.3, 
nearly. It is fusible before the blow pipe. 
It consists of 
Silica.... 33 
Alumina 44 
Lime 3.84 
Oxide of iron.... 13 
Oxide of manganese.. 1 
94.84 
Loss... 5.16 
100 
GRAND jury. The sheriff of every 
county is bound to return, to every com- 
mission of oyer and terminer, and of goal 
delivery, and to every session of the peace, 
twenty-four good and lawful men of the 
county, some out of every hundred, to en- 
quire, present, do, and execute all those 
things which on the part of our lord the 
King shall then and there be commanded 
them. They ought to be freeholders ; hut 
to what amount is not limited by law. Upon 
their appearance they are sworn upon the 
grand jury, to tiie amount of twelve at the 
least, and not more than twenty-three, that 
twelve may be a majority. They are only 
to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecu- 
tion ; for the finding of an indictment is 
only in the nature of an enquiry on accusa- 
tion, which is afterwards to be tried; arid 
