Gracefully

Gracefully
Graceful Grace"ful, a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. [1913 Webster]

High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. --Dryden. -- {Grace"ful*ly}, adv. {Grace"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]


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