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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth (10-3) of a kilogram. See Table at measurement.
  2. n. Any of several plants, such as the chickpea, bearing seeds widely used as food in tropical Asia.
  3. n. The seeds of such a plant.
  4. n. Informal A grandmother.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Angry; fierce.
  2. n. Anger; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
  3. To vex; make angry or sorry.
  4. To grieve; be sorry.
  5. n. In the metric system, a unit of mass. It is defined as the thousandth part of the mass of a certain piece of platinum preserved at Paris and called the Kilogramme des Archives. The intention was that the mass of a cubic centimeter of water at its maximum density should be one gram, and this is very nearly true. A gram is equal to 15.432 + troy grains. Abbreviation (by an international convention) gr.
  6. In the East Indies, the chick-pea, Cicer arietinum, there used extensively as fodder for horses and cattle, and also in cakes, curries, etc.
  7. An abbreviation of grammar.
  8. A terminal element in nouns of Greek origin, denoting ‘that which is written or marked,’ as in diagram, epigram, program, monogram, telegram, etc. Formerly and in programme still often written -gramme, after the French form. In the metric terms decagram, hectogram, etc., it is merely the word gram in composition.
  9. n. In kinematics, the curve described by a point of a link-motion.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g
  2. n. A group of leguminous plants that are grown for their seeds.
  3. n. The seeds of these plants.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Angry.
  2. n. The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.
  3. n. The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See grain, n., 4.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
  2. n. Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938)

Etymologies

  1. French gramme, from Late Latin gramma, a small weight, from Greek, something written, small weight; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.Obsolete Portuguese, from Latin grānum, seed; see gr̥ə-no- in Indo-European roots.Shortening and alteration of gramma1 or grandmother.

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