n. [ L. aegritudo, fr. aeger sick. ] Sickness; ailment; sorrow. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE, greet, greot, sand, gravel, AS. greót grit, sant, dust; akin to OS griott, OFries. gret gravel, OHG. grioz, G. griess, Icel. grjōt, and to E. groats, grout. See Groats, Grout, and cf. Grail gravel. ] 1. Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The coarse part of meal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Geol.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude. C. Reade. E. P. Whipple. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gritted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gritting. ] To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth. [ Collog. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. grið peace; akin to Icel. grid. ] Peace; security; agreement. [ Obs. ] Gower.

{ n. (Geol.) See Grit, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being gritty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Spirited; resolute; unyielding. [ Colloq., U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. integritas: cf. F. intégrité. See Integer, and cf. Entirety. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Language continued long in its purity and integrity. Sir M. Hale.

Syn. -- Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See Probity. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., blackish, fem. of negrito, dim. of negro black. ] (Zool.) A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes. Keary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing Negrito /sing>. [ Sp., dim. of negro black. ] (Ethnol.) A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Ethnol.) Pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, negroes, or of the Negritos, Papuans, and the Melanesian races; negritic. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. nigritudo, fr. niger black. ] Blackness; the state of being black. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) The formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]