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(1):

(n.) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.

(2):

(n.) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.

(3):

(n.) A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.

(4):

(n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; - usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.

(5):

(v. t.) To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.

(6):

(v. t.) To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.

(7):

(v. t.) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.

(8):

(n.) A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rade'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/rade.html. 1828.
 
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