Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.

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.

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.

Source : WordNet®

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}]

grand
     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}]