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Graff

græf
Portrait of the painter Anton Graff, after his self-portrait, sitting on a chair, half upside down, palette and brushes in hand.
Portrait of the painter Anton Graff, after his self-portrait, sitting on a chair, half upside down, palette and brushes in hand.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Graff
    A steward; an overseer. "A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff , and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ."
  2. Graff
    See Graft.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) graff
    A grave.
  2. (n) graff
    A ditch or moat; a canal. Also graft.
  3. (n) graff
    Same as graft.
  4. graff
    Same as graft.
  5. graff
    To incorporate; attach.
  6. (n) graff
    An obsolete variant of greave, greave.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Graff
    graf (Scot.) a grave. A variant of grave.
  2. (n., v) Graff
    (B.) Same as Graft.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. grafe, greife, greive,. Cf. Margrave

Usage in the news

David E Graff , 325th Fighter Wing commander. newsherald.com

Check out Lloyd Graff's SwarfBlog, where you'll find lots of thoughts from the exhibitor side about International Manufacturing Technology Show, held last week at the McCormick Place in Chicago. meetingsnet.com

Danny Graff, center, and Becca Johnson participate in an improvisational exercise as part of the Rhodes Junior Apprentices program for the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival at California Lutheran University. venturacountystar.com

STANDING IN front of this 1933 Blue Chevy are Hank Riser and Bill Graff, both deceased. timesleaderonline.com

Monika Graff / Kevin Winter (2), Getty Images. z94.com

Graff, a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center, is a contributing editor and daily columnist at The American Prospect and the author of What Is Marriage For. theatlantic.com

David Graff, 325th Fighter Wing Commander, News Conference Re. jhg.com

Morning Classical With Peter Van De Graff. mot.org

Every summer dozens of graff kids hit the streets, wielding cans with skills so lame their scribbles wouldn't look out of place knifed on a park bench. houstonpress.com

Aqua -Sense shower system in polished chrome by Graff, 800-954-4723. interiordesign.net

Graff said it has stepped where the Federal Emergency Management Agency and private insurers won't. timesargus.com

Graff writers and art kids loved it. minnesotamonthly.com

Michael Graff Special to the News & Record. news-record.com

Photos by Kevin Graff and Emily Fetty. the-review.com

Todd Graff's Joyful Noise tells the story of a Pacashau, Ga. Church choir entering a gospel music competition against better-financed groups. nypress.com

Usage in scientific papers

To state Crofton’s formula we start with the affine Grassmanian Graff (N , k) of all k-dimensional flats in RN ; viz. of all k-dimensional linear subspaces of RN not necessarily passing through the origin.
Excursion sets of stable random fields

On Graff (N , k) there is a natural Haar measure, known as kinematic measure, which we denote by k .
Excursion sets of stable random fields

Since if M is compact and convex so is M ∩ V , for any V ∈ Graff (N , k).
Excursion sets of stable random fields

Sample irradiation was performed with a 2.4 MeV proton scanning beam from a Van de Graff accelerator.
Study of the optimal conditions for NV- center formation in type 1b diamond, using photoluminescence and positron annihilation spectroscopies

Graff et al. (2001) have also searched for a parallax distorsion in the macho data for this event; this unsuccessful search produces a lower limit on µM C that strengthens this conclusion, at the 97% C.L.
The Galactic Halo from Microlensing

Usage in literature

These are th' Italian names, which fate will join With ours, and graff upon the Trojan line. "The Aeneid" by Virgil

De Graff and Riolan describe similar cases. "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine" by George M. Gould

By SIMON DE GRAFF, Architect. "Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught" by Joshua Rose

Thus the graff, or prince, though he be the owner of an entire circle, is yet the only farmer within that circle. "Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II" by G. R. Gleig

By Simon De Graff, Architect. "Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained" by M. Quinby

The other two burglars were Orestes Noxon and Graff Miller, neither of whom had reached his majority by more than two years. "The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters" by Edward S. Ellis

He knew De Graff quite well; they were, in fact, upon most intimate terms, socially. "The Making of Bobby Burnit" by George Randolph Chester

That one was Sandy Graff. "Shapes that Haunt the Dusk" by Various

Graff, Mr. S. J., 106, 110. "History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4)" by Frederick Maurice

You may graffe lesse (which I like) and bigger, which I like not so well. "A New Orchard And Garden" by William Lawson

Usage in poetry
How might I do to get a graff
Of this unspotted tree?
--For all the rest are plain but chaff,
Which seem good corn to be.
"A Praise of his Lady" by Anonymous British
But mony braw thanks to the Laird o' Glen-Brodie,
The grass owre their graffs is now bonnie and green,
He sta' the proud heart of our wanton young lady.
And spoil'd a' the charm o' her twa pawky een.
"Barrochan Jean" by Robert Tannahill