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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus
     beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice,
     cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf.
     {Grateful}, {Gratis}.]
     1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition
        to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege


        conferred.
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              To bow and sue for grace
              With suppliant knee.                  --Milton.
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     2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as
        distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His
        mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of
        acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
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              And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom.
                                                    xi. 6.
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              My grace is sufficicnt for thee.      --2 Cor. xii.
                                                    9.
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              Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
                                                    --Rom. v. 20.
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              By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
              wherein we stand.                     --Rom. v.2
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     3. (Law)
        (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as
            pardon.
        (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of
            equitable relief through chancery.
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     4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it
        means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic
        fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
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              He is complete in feature and in mind.
              With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak.
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              I have formerly given the general character of Mr.
              Addison's style and manner as natural and
              unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those
              graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over
              writing.                              --Blair.
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     6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness;
        commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
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              Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and
              secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt.
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              I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and
              the grace of the gift.                --Longfellow.
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     7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister
        goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the
        attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They
        were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely,
        Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the
        inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to
        wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
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              The Graces love to weave the rose.    --Moore.
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              The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior.
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     8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and
        formerly of the king of England.
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              How fares your Grace !                --Shak.
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     9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.]
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              Yielding graces and thankings to their lord
              Melibeus.                             --Chaucer.
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     10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks
         rendered, before or after a meal.
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     11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either
         introduced by the performer, or indicated by the
         composer, in which case the notation signs are called
         grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
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     12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the
         government of the institution; a degree or privilege
         conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton.
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     13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of
         motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one
         player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of
         each. Called also {grace hoop} or {hoops}.
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     {Act of grace}. See under {Act}.
  
     {Day of grace} (Theol.), the time of probation, when the
        offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted.
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              That day of grace fleets fast away.   --I. Watts.
  
     {Days of grace} (Com.), the days immediately following the
        day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are
        allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In
        Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are
        three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants
        being different.
  
     {Good graces}, favor; friendship.
  
     {Grace cup}.
         (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after
             grace.
         (b) A health drunk after grace has been said.
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                   The grace cup follows to his sovereign's
                   health.                          --Hing.
  
     {Grace drink}, a drink taken on rising from the table; a
        grace cup.
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              To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the
              custom of the grace drink, she having established it
              as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till
              grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc.
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     {Grace hoop}, a hoop used in playing graces. See {Grace}, n.,
        13.
  
     {Grace note} (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See {Appoggiatura}, and
        def. 11 above.
  
     {Grace stroke}, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace.
        
  
     {Means of grace}, means of securing knowledge of God, or
        favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc.
  
     {To do grace}, to reflect credit upon.
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              Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak.
  
     {To say grace}, to render thanks before or after a meal.
  
     {With a good grace}, in a fit and proper manner grace fully;
        graciously.
  
     {With a bad grace}, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory
        manner; ungraciously.
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              What might have been done with a good grace would at
              least
              be done with a bad grace.             --Macaulay.
  
     Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy.
  
     Usage: {Grace}, {Mercy}. These words, though often
            interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar
            meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is
            spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy
            is kindness or compassion to the suffering or
            condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way
            for the exercise of mercy toward men. See {Elegance}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hoops \hoops\ n.
     The game of basketball. [Slang]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hoops
       n : a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players;
           points are scored by throwing the basketball through an
           elevated horizontal hoop [syn: {basketball}, {basketball
           game}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  HOOPS
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