_Tom Gradgrind_, son of the above, a sullen young man, much loved by his sister, and holding an office in the bank of his brother-in-law, Josiah Bounderby. Tom robs the bank, and throws suspicion on Stephen Blackpool, one of the hands in Bounderby’s factory. When found out, Tom takes refuge in the circus of the town, disguised as a black servant, till he effects his escape from England. _Louisa Gradgrind_, eldest daughter of Thomas Gradgrind, M.P. She marries Josiah Bounderby, banker and mill-owner. Louisa has been so hardened by her bringing up, that she appears cold and indifferent to everything, but she dearly loves her brother Tom.—C. Dickens, _Hard Times_, (1854). =Græme= (_Roland_), heir of Avenel (2 _syl._). He first appears as page to the lady of Avenel, then as page to Mary Queen of Scots. _Magdalen Græme_, dame of Heathergill, grandmother of Roland Græme. She appears to Roland disguised as Mother Nicneven, an old witch at Kinross.—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbott_ (time Elizabeth). _Græme_ (_William_), the red riever [_free-booter_] at Westburnflat.—Sir W. Scott, _The Black Dwarf_ (time, Anne). =Grævius= or _J.G. Græfe_ of Saxony, editor of several of the Latin classics (1632-1703). Believe me, lady, I have more satisfaction in beholding you than I should have in conversing with Grævius and Gronovius.—Mrs. Cowley, _Who’s the Dupe?_ i. 3. (Abraham Gronovius was a famous philologist, 1694-1775.) =Gra´hame= (_Colonel John_), of Claverhouse, in the royal army under the duke of Monmouth. Afterwards viscount of Dundee. _Cornet Richard Grahame_, the colonel’s nephew, in the same army.—Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.). =Grahams=, nicknamed “Of the Hen.” The reference is this: The Grahams, having provided for a great marriage feast, found that a raid had been made upon their poultry by Donald of the Hammer (_q.v._). They went in pursuit, and a combat took place; but as the fight was for “cocks and hens,” it obtained for the Grahams the nickname of _Gramoch an Garrigh_. =Gram=, Siegfried’s sword. =Grammarians= (_Prince of_), Apollonios, of Alexandria. Priscian called him _Grammaticorum Princeps_ (second century B.C.) =Grammont= (_The Count of_). He promised marriage to la belle Hamilton, but left England without performing the promise; whereupon the brothers followed him and asked him if he had not forgotten something. “True, true,” said the count, “excuse my short memory;” and returning with the brothers, he made the young lady countess of Grammont. =Grand Jument=, meant for Diana, of Poitiers.—Rabelais, _Gargantua and Pantagruel_. =Grand Monarque= [_mo.nark´_], Louis XIV. (1638, 1643-1715).