Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness;
      commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.

            Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and
            secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt.

            I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and
            the grace of the gift.                --Longfellow.

   7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister
      goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the
      attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They
      were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely,
      Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the
      inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to
      wisdom, love, and social intercourse.

            The Graces love to weave the rose.    --Moore.

            The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior.

   8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and
      formerly of the king of England.

            How fares your Grace !                --Shak.

   9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.]

            Yielding graces and thankings to their lord
            Melibeus.                             --Chaucer.

   10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks
       rendered, before or after a meal.

   11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either
       introduced by the performer, or indicated by the
       composer, in which case the notation signs are called
       grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.

   12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the
       government of the institution; a degree or privilege
       conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton.

   13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of
       motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one
       player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of
       each. Called also {grace hoop} or {hoops}.

   {Act of grace}. See under {Act}.

   {Day of grace} (Theol.), the time of probation, when the
      offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted.

            That day of grace fleets fast away.   --I. Watts.

   {Days of grace} (Com.), the days immediately following the
      day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are
      allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In
      Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are
      three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants
      being different.

   {Good graces}, favor; friendship.

   {Grace cup}.
       (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after
           grace.
       (b) A health drunk after grace has been said.

                 The grace cup follows to his sovereign's
                 health.                          --Hing.

   {Grace drink}, a drink taken on rising from the table; a
      grace cup.

            To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the
            custom of the grace drink, she having established it
            as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till
            grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc.
                                                  Brit.

   {Grace hoop}, a hoop used in playing graces. See {Grace}, n.,
      13.

   {Grace note} (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See {Appoggiatura}, and
      def. 11 above.

   {Grace stroke}, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace.
      

   {Means of grace}, means of securing knowledge of God, or
      favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc.

   {To do grace}, to reflect credit upon.

            Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak.

   {To say grace}, to render thanks before or after a meal.

   {With a good grace}, in a fit and proper manner grace fully;
      graciously.

   {With a bad grace}, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory
      manner; ungraciously.

            What might have been done with a good grace would at
            least be done with a bad grace.       --Macaulay.

   Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy.

   Usage: {Grace}, {Mercy}. These words, though often
          interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar
          meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is
          spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy
          is kindness or compassion to the suffering or
          condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way
          for the exercise of mercy toward men. See {Elegance}.



   {Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n.

   {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but
      beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four
      hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day,
      as that most used by astronomers.

   {Born days}. See under {Born}.

   {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}.

   {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary
      reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning
      at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two
      series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized
      by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and
      Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews
      at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight.
      

   {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}.

   {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day;
      continually; without intermission of a day. See under
      {By}. ``Day by day we magnify thee.'' --Book of Common
      Prayer.

   {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return
      of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called
      because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench,
      or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill.

   {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a
      suit.

   {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which
      devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley.

   {Days of grace}. See {Grace}.

   {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is
      obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley.

   {Day owl}, (Zo["o]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk
      owl}.

   {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished)
      allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go
      beyond the prison limits for a single day.

   {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in
      distinction from a boarding school.

   {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}.

   {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's
      course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon.

   {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as,
      he improves from day to day.

   {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset.

   {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the
      apparent solar days of the year.

   {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually
      of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later.
      ``Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a
      husband.'' --Shak.

   {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance;
      temporarily. --Bacon.

   {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits
      of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The
      Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time.

   {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S.
      Butler.

   {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day.
      

   {Working day}.
      (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction
          from Sundays and legal holidays.
      (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom,
          during which a workman, hired at a stated price per
          day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.