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Great Lakes   /greɪt leɪks/   Listen
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Great  adj.  (compar. greater; superl. greatest)  
1.
Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
2.
Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.
3.
Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.
4.
Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
5.
Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.
6.
Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distinguished; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc. "He doth object I am too great of birth."
7.
Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.
8.
Pregnant; big (with young). "The ewes great with young."
9.
More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain. "We have all Great cause to give great thanks."
10.
(Genealogy) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc.
Great bear (Astron.), the constellation Ursa Major.
Great cattle (Law), all manner of cattle except sheep and yearlings.
Great charter (Eng. Hist.), Magna Charta.
Great circle of a sphere, a circle the plane of which passes through the center of the sphere.
Great circle sailing, the process or art of conducting a ship on a great circle of the globe or on the shortest arc between two places.
Great go, the final examination for a degree at the University of Oxford, England; called also greats.
Great guns. (Naut.) See under Gun.
The Great Lakes the large fresh-water lakes (Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) which lie on the northern borders of the United States.
Great master. Same as Grand master, under Grand.
Great organ (Mus.), the largest and loudest of the three parts of a grand organ (the others being the choir organ and the swell, and sometimes the pedal organ or foot keys), It is played upon by a separate keyboard, which has the middle position.
The great powers (of Europe), in modern diplomacy, Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Italy.
Great primer. See under Type.
Great scale (Mus.), the complete scale; employed to designate the entire series of musical sounds from lowest to highest.
Great sea, the Mediterranean sea. In Chaucer both the Black and the Mediterranean seas are so called.
Great seal.
(a)
The principal seal of a kingdom or state.
(b)
In Great Britain, the lord chancellor (who is custodian of this seal); also, his office.
Great tithes. See under Tithes.
The great, the eminent, distinguished, or powerful.
The Great Spirit, among the North American Indians, their chief or principal deity.
To be great (with one), to be intimate or familiar (with him).





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"Great lakes" Quotes from Famous Books



... returning home, he had found his wife and children tomahawked and scalped, and how he had taken a vow of lifelong vengeance upon the Indians, a vow most terribly kept. In all the villages in the Ohio country and along the Great Lakes, the name of Black Rifle was spoken with awe and terror. No more singular and ominous figure ever crossed the pages ...
— The Shadow of the North - A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign • Joseph A. Altsheler
... provinces he had visited a few months before. All the other travelers—Grant, Speke, Burton, Cameron, and Stanley—do not speak otherwise of this wooded plateau of Central Africa, the principal theater of the wars between the chiefs. In the region of the great lakes, over all that vast country which feeds the market of Zanzibar, in Bornou and Fezzan, farther south, on the banks of the Nyassa and the Zambesi, farther west, in the districts of the upper Zaire, which the daring ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... modern piston rods, and the waters whirled back like wave-wash in the wake of a clipper. Except for briefest stoppages, speed was not relaxed across the whole northern end of those inland seas called the Great Lakes. With ample space on the lakes, the brigades could spread out and the canoes separated, not halting long enough to come together again till we reached the Sault. Here, orders were issued for the maintenance of rigid discipline. We camped at a distance from the lodges of local tribes. ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... revised to meet the varying circumstances under which railway traffic is conducted. This competition takes several distinct forms. One is that between railways and waterways. A large part of the domestic traffic of the United States has the choice of transportation by rail or by water on the great lakes and the tributary canals, by the navigable rivers, or by one of the many ocean routes followed by our coastwise commerce. There is also the competition of rival railways connecting common termini or serving the same cities. These forms of competition are the ones ...
— Up To Date Business - Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) • Various
... no brightness like the eyes of the paleface princess," he said, his proud face serious, and his eyes steady and flashing. There was almost a flush under the dusky skin of his cheeks. "The waters of the great lakes are deep, but the depth is as nothing to the blue of the princess's eyes. She is queen of her race, as Little Black Fox is king of his race. The king would wed the queen, whose eyes make little the cloudless ...
— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum


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