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Graywacke
GRAYWACKE, noun A rock somewhat remarkable in its structure and geological relations; a kind of sandstone, composed of grains or fragments of different minerals, chiefly of quartz, feldspar, siliceous slate and argillite. These fragments are sometimes angular, and sometimes their edges and angles are rounded, thus forming nodules or globular masses. The size is very variable, passing from grains to nodules of a foot in diameter. The several ingredients are united by an indurated argillaceous substance, or the interstices between the larger fragments are filled by the same materials which compose the larger parts of the rock, but in grains so comminuted as to resemble a homogeneous cement. The colors are some shade of gray or brown, as bluish gray, reddish brown. etc.
Graze
GRAZE, verb transitive [Latin rado, rasi, or rodo, rosi.]
1. To rub or touch lightly in passing; to brush lightly in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall or the earth.
2. To feed or supply cattle with grass; to furnish pasture for; as, the farmer grazes large herds of cattle.
3. To feed on; to eat from the ground, as growing herbage.
The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
4. To tend grazing cattle; as, Jacob grazed Laban's sheep.
GRAZE, verb intransitive To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
1. To supply grass; as, the ground will not graze well.
2. To move on devouring.
Grazed
GRA'ZED, participle passive Touched lightly by a passing body; brushed.
1. Fed by growing grass; as, cattle are grazed
2. Eaten, as growing herbage; as, the fields were grazed
Grazer
GRA'ZER, noun One that grazes or feeds on growing herbage.
Grazier
GRA'ZIER, noun gra'zhur. One who feeds cattle with grass, or supplies them with pasture.
Grazing
GRA'ZING, participle present tense Touching lightly, as a moving body.
1. Feeding on growing herbage; as grazing cattle.
2. Supplying pasture; as a grazing farm.
Grease
GREASE, noun
1. Animal fat in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind, as tallow, lard; but particularly the fatty matter of land animals, as distinguished from the oily matter of marine animals.
2. A swelling and gourdiness of a horse's legs, occasioned by traveling or by standing long in a stable.
GREASE, verb transitive greez. To smear, anoint or daub with grease or fat.
1. To bribe; to corrupt with presents. [Not elegant.]
Greased
GRE'ASED, participle passive Smeared with oily matter; bribed.
Greasily
GRE'ASILY, adverb With grease or an appearance of it; grossly.
Greasiness
GRE'ASINESS, noun The state of being greasy; oiliness; unctuousness.
Greasing
GRE'ASING, participle present tense Smearing with fat or oily matter; bribing.
Greasy
GRE'ASY, adjective greez'y. Oily; fat; unctuous.
1. Smeared or defiled with grease.
2. Like grease or oil; smooth; as a fossil that has a greasy feel.
3. Fat of body; bulky. [Little used.]
4. Gross; indelicate; indecent.
Great
GREAT, adjective [Latin crassus.]
1. Large in bulk or dimensions; a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual; as a great body; a great house; a great farm.
2. Being of extended length or breadth; as a great distance; a great lake.
3. Large in number; as a great many; a great multitude.
4. Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing; as great fear; great love; great strength; great wealth; great power; great influence; great folly.
5. Long continued; as a great while.
6. Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter.
7. Chief; principal; as the great seal of England.
8. Chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; illustrious; as the great God; the great Creator.
9. Vast; extensive; wonderful; admirable.
GREAT are thy works. Jehovah.
10. Possessing large or strong powers of mind; as a great genius.
11. Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge; as a great philosopher or botanist; a great scholar.
12. Distinguished by rank, office or power; elevated; eminent; as a great lord; the great men of the nation; the great Mogul; Alexander the great
13. Dignified in aspect, mien or manner.
Amidst the crowd she walks serenely great
14. Magnanimous; generous; of elevated sentiments; high-minded. He has a great soul.
15. Rich; sumptuous; magnificent. He disdained not to appear at great tables. A great feast or entertainment.
16. Vast; sublime; as a great conception or idea.
17. Dignified; noble.
Nothing can be great which is not right.
18. Swelling; proud; as, he was not disheartened by great looks.
19. Chief; principal; much traveled; as a great road. The ocean is called the great highway of nations.
20. Pregnant; teeming; as great with young.
21. Hard; difficult. It is no great matter to live in peace with meek people.
22. Familiar; intimate. [Vulgar.]
23. Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. .
24. Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather; great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely; and great grandson, great great grandson. etc.
25. Superior; preeminent; as great chamberlain; great marshal.
The sense of great is to be understood by the things it is intended to qualify. great pain or wrath is violent pain or wrath; great love is ardent love; great peace is entire peace; a great name is extensive renown; a great evil or sin, is a sin of deep malignity, etc.
GREAT, noun The whole; the gross; the lump or mass; as, a carpenter contracts to build a ship by the great
1. People of rank or distinction. The poor envy the great and the great despise the poor.
Great-Bellied
GREAT-BELLIED, adjective Pregnant; teeming.
Great-Hearted
GREAT-HEARTED, adjective High-spirited; undejected.
Greaten
GREATEN, verb transitive To enlarge.
Greatly
GREATLY, adverb In a great degree; much.
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. .
1. Nobly; illustriously.
By a high fate, thou greatly didst expire.
2. Magnanimously; generously; bravely.
He greatly scorned to turn his back on his foe. He greatly spurned the offered boon.
Greatness
GREATNESS, noun Largeness of bulk, dimensions, number or quantity; as the greatness of a mountain, of an edifice, of a multitude, or of a sum of money. With reference to solid bodies, however, we more generally use bulk, size, extent or magnitude than greatness; as the bulk or size of the body; the extent of the ocean; the magnitude of the sun or of the earth.
1. Large amount; extent; as the greatness of a reward.
2. High degree; as the greatness of virtue or vice.
3. High rank or place; elevation; dignity; distinction; eminence; power; command.
4. Swelling pride; affected state.
It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships.
5. Magnanimity; elevation of sentiment; nobleness; as greatness of mind.
Virtue is the only solid basis of greatness
6. Strength or extent of intellectual faculties; as the greatness of genius.
7. Large extent or variety; as the greatness of a man's acquisitions.
8. Grandeur; pomp; magnificence.
GREATNESS with Timon dwells in such a draught,
As brings all Brobdignag before your thought.
9. Force; intensity; as the greatness of sound, of passion, heat, etc.
Greave
GREAVE, for grove and groove. [See Grove and Groove.]
Greaves
GREAVES, noun plural greevz. Armor for the legs; a sort of boots.
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Grebe
GREBE, noun A fowl of the genus Colymbus and order of ansers, of several species; as the tippet-grebe, the horned grebe the eared grebe or dob-chick.
Grecian
GRE'CIAN, adjective Pertaining to Greece.
GRE'CIAN, noun A native of Greece. Also, a Jew who understood Greek. .
1. One well versed in the Greek language.
Grecism
GRE'CISM, noun [Latin groecismus.] An idiom of the Greek language.
Grecize
GRE'CIZE, verb transitive To render Grecian.
1. To translate into Greek.
GRE'CIZE, verb intransitive To speak the Greek language.
Gree
GREE, noun Good will.
1. Step; rank; degree. [See Degree.]
GREE. verb intransitive To agree. [See Agree.]
Greece
GREECE, noun [Latin gressus. It ought to be written grese, but it is entirely obsolete.] A flight of steps.
Greed
GREED, noun Greediness.
Greedily
GREE'DILY, adverb [See Greedy.] With a keen appetite for food or drink; voraciously; ravenously; as, to eat or swallow greedily
1. With keen or ardent desire; eagerly. .
Greediness
GREE'DINESS, noun Keenness of appetite for food or drink; ravenousness; voracity.
Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness
1. Ardent desire.
Greedy
GREE'DY, adjective [Latin gradior, and probably signifies reaching forward.]
1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; followed by of; as a lion that is greedy of his prey. .
2. Having a keen desire of any thing; eager to obtain; as greedy of gain.
Greek
GREEK, adjective Pertaining to Greece. [See Gray.]
GREEK, noun A native of Greece.
1. The language of Greece.
GREEK-FIRE, a combustible composition, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur.
Greekish
GREE'KISH, adjective Peculiar to Greece.
Greekling
GREE'KLING, noun An inferior Greek writer.
Greekrose
GREE'KROSE, noun The flower campion.
Green
GREEN, adjective
1. Properly, growing, flourishing, as plants; hence, of the color of herbage and plants when growing, a color composed of blue and yellow rays, one of blue and yellow rays, one of the original prismatic colors; verdant.
2. New; fresh; recent; as a green wound.
The greenest usurpation.
3. Fresh; flourishing; undecayed; as green old age.
4. Containing its natural juices; not dry; not seasoned; as green wood; green timber.
5. Not roasted; half raw.
We say the meat is green when half-roasted.
[Rarely, if ever used in America.]
6. Unripe; immature; not arrived to perfection; as green fruit. Hence,
7. Immature in age; young; as green in age or judgment.
8. Pale; sickly; wan; of a greenish pale color.
GREEN, noun The color of growing plants; a color composed of blue and yellow rays, which, mixed in different proportions, exhibit a variety of shades; as apple green meadow green leek green etc.
1. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
O'er the smooth enameled green
2. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; usually in the plural.
The fragrant greens I seek, my brows to bind.
3. The leaves and stems of young plants used in cookery or dressed for food in the spring; in the plural.
GREEN, verb transitive To make green This is used by Thomson and by Barlow, but is not an elegant word, nor indeed hardly legitimate, in the sense in which these writers use it. 'Spring greens the year.' 'God greens the groves.' The only legitimate sense of this verb, if used, would be, to dye green or to change to a green color. A plant growing in a dark room is yellow; let this plant be carried into the open air, and the rays of the sun will green it. This use would correspond with the use of whiten, blacken, redden.
Green-Crop
GREE'N-CROP, noun A crop of green vegetables, such as artificial grasses, turnips, etc.
Green-Earth
GREE'N-EARTH, noun A species of earth or mineral, so called; the mountain green of artists.
Green-Eyed
GREE'N-EYED, adjective Having green eyes; as green-eyed jealousy.
Green-Grocer
GREE'N-GROCER, noun A retailer of greens.
Green-House
GREE'N-HOUSE, noun A house in which tender plants are sheltered from the weather, and preserved green during the winter or cold weather.
Green-Sickness
GREE'N-SICKNESS, noun The chlorosis, a disease of maids, so called from the color it occasions in the face.
Green-Stall
GREE'N-STALL, noun A stall on which greens are exposed to sale.
Green-Sward
GREE'N-SWARD, noun Turf green with grass.
Green-Weed
GREE'N-WEED, noun Dyer's weed.
Greenbroom
GREE'NBROOM
GREE'NCLOTH, noun A board or court of justice held in the counting house of the British king's household, composed of the lord steward and the officers under him. This court has the charge and cognizance of all matters of justice in the king's household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace of the verge, or jurisdiction of the court-royal, which extends every way two hundred yards from the gate of the palace.
Greenfinch
GREE'NFINCH, noun A bird of the genus Fringilla.
Greenfish
GREE'NFISH, noun A fish so called.
Greengage
GREE'NGAGE, noun A species of plum.
Greenhaired
GREE'NHAIRED, adjective Having green locks or hair.
Greenhood
GREE'NHOOD, noun A state of greenness.
Greenhorn
GREE'NHORN, noun A raw youth.
Greenish
GREE'NISH, adjective Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as a greenish yellow.
Greenishness
GREE'NISHNESS, noun The quality of being greenish.
Greenly
GREE'NLY, adverb With a green color; newly; freshly; immaturely.
Greenness
GREE'NNESS, noun The quality of being green; viridity; as the greenness of grass or of a meadow.
1. Immaturity; unripeness; in a literal or figurative sense; as the greenness of fruit; the greenness of youth.
2. Freshness; vigor.
3. Newness.
Greenstone
GREE'NSTONE, noun [so called from a tinge of green in the color.]
A rock of the trap formation, consisting of hornblend and feldspar in the state of grains or small crystals.
Greenweed
GREE'NWEED , noun A plant of the genus Genista.
Greenwood
GREE'NWOOD, noun Wood when green, as in summer.
GREE'NWOOD, adjective Pertaining to a greenwood; as a greenwood shade.
Greet
GREET, verb transitive [Latin rudo, to bray, to roar.]
1. To address with expressions of kind wishes; to salute in kindness and respect.
My lord, the Mayor if London comes to greet you.
2. To address at meeting; to address in any manner.
3. To congratulate.
4. To pay compliments at a distance; to send kind wishes to. . .
5. To meet and address with kindness; or to express kind wishes accompanied with an embrace. .
6. To meet.
GREET, verb intransitive To meet and salute.
There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,
And sleep in peace.
1. To weep; written by Spenser greit.
Greeted
GREE'TED, participle passive Addressed with kind wishes; complimented.
Greeter
GREE'TER, noun One who greets.
Greeting
GREE'TING, participle present tense Addressing with kind wishes or expressions of joy; complimenting; congratulating; saluting.
GREE'TING, noun Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; compliment addressed from one absent.
Greeze
GREEZE, noun [Latin gressus.] A step, or flight of steps. [See Greece.]
Greffier
GREF'FIER, noun A registrar, or recorder.
Gregal
GRE'GAL, adjective [Latin grex.] Pertaining to a flock.
Gregarian
GREGA'RIAN, adjective [See Gregarious.] Belonging to the herd or common sort.
Gregarious
GREGA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin gregarius, from grex, a herd.]
Having the habit of assembling or living in a flock or herd; not habitually solitary or living alone. Cattle and sheep are gregarious animals. Many species of birds are gregarious Rapacious animals are generally not gregarious
Gregariously
GREGA'RIOUSLY, adverb In a flock or herd; in a company.
Gregariousness
GREGA'RIOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of living in flocks or herds.
Gregorian
GREGO'RIAN, adjective Denoting what belongs to Gregory. The gregorian calendar, is one which shows the new and full moon, with the time of Easter, and the movable feasts depending thereon, by means of epacts. The gregorian year, is the present year, as reformed by pope Gregory XIII, in 1582; consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 47 seconds, with an additional day every fourth year.
Greit
GREIT, verb intransitive To lament.
Greith
GREITH, verb transitive To make ready.
GREITH, noun Goods; furniture.
Gremial
GRE'MIAL, adjective [Latin gremium.] Belonging to the lap or bosom.
Grenade
GRENA'DE, noun In the art of war, a hollow ball or shell of iron or other metal, about two inches and a half in diameter, to be filled with powder which is to be fired by means of a fusee, and thrown by hand among enemies. This, bursting into many pieces, does great injury, and is particularly useful in annoying an enemy in trenches and other lodgments.
Grenadier
GRENADIE'R, noun
1. A foot soldier, wearing a high cap. Grenadiers are usually tall, active soldiers, distinguished from others chiefly by their dress and arms; a company of them is usually attached to each battalion.
2. A fowl found in Angola, in Africa.
Grenatite
GREN'ATITE, noun Staurotide or staurolite, a mineral of a dark reddish brown. It occurs imbedded in mica slate, and in talc, and is infusible by the blowpipe. It is called also prismatic garnet.
Grew
GREW, preterit tense of grow.
Grey
GREY. [See Gray.]
Greyhound
GREYHOUND, noun A tall fleet dog, kept for the chase.
Grice
GRICE, noun A little pig.
Griddle
GRID'DLE, noun A pan, broad and shallow, for baking cakes.
Gride
GRIDE, verb transitive [Eng. to cry.] To grate, or to cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as the griding sword.
That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride
Gridelin
GRID'ELIN, noun A color mixed of white and red, or a gray violet.
Gridiron
GRID'IRON, noun A grated utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
Grief
GRIEF , noun [Latin gravis.]
1. The pain of mind produced by loss, misfortune, injury or evils of any kind; sorrow; regret. We experience grief when we lose a friend, when we incur loss, when we consider ourselves injured, and by sympathy, we feel grief at the misfortunes of others.
2. The pain of mind occasioned by our own misconduct; sorrow or regret that we have done wrong; pain accompanying repentance. We feel grief when we have offended or injured a friend, and the consciousness of having offended the Supreme Being, fills the penitent heart with the most poignant grief
3. Cause of sorrow; that which afflicts.
Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah. .
A foolish son is a grief to his father. .
Griefful
GRIE'FFUL, adjective Full of grief or sorrow.
Griefshot
GRIE'FSHOT, adjective Pierced with grief.
Grievable
GRIE'VABLE, adjective Lamentable.
Grievance
GRIE'VANCE, noun [from grief.] That which causes grief or uneasiness; that which burdens, oppresses or injures, implying a sense of wrong done, or a continued injury, and therefore applied only to the effects of human conduct; never to providential evils. The oppressed subject has the right to petition for a redress of grievances.
Grieve
GRIEVE, verb transitive [Latin gravo, from gravis.]
1. To give pain of mind to; to afflict; to wound the feelings. Nothing grieves a parent like the conduct of a profligate child.
2. To afflict; to inflict pain on.
For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the
children of men. .
3. To make sorrowful; to excite regret in.
4. To offend; to displease; to provoke.
GRIEVE not the holy Spirit of God. .
GRIEVE, verb intransitive To feel pain of mind or heart; to be in pain on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn. We grieve at the loss of friends or property. We grieve at the misfortunes of others. We grieve for our own misfortunes, follies and vices, as well as for those of our children. It is followed by at or for.
Grieved
GRIE'VED, participle passive Pained; afflicted; suffering sorrow.
Griever
GRIE'VER, noun He or that which grieves.
Grieving
GRIE'VING, participle present tense Giving pain; afflicting.
1. Sorrowing; exercised with grief; mourning.
Grievingly
GRIE'VINGLY, adverb In sorrow; sorrowfully.
Grievous
GRIE'VOUS, adjective [from grieve, or grief.] Heavy; oppressive; burdensome; as a grievous load of taxes.
1. Afflictive; painful; hard to be borne.
Correction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way. .
2. Causing grief or sorrow.
The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son. .
3. Distressing.
The famine was very grievous in the land. .
4. Great; atrocious.
Because their sin is very grievous
5. Expressing great uneasiness; as a grievous complaint.
6. Provoking; offensive; tending to irritate; as grievous words. .
7. Hurtful; destructive; causing mischief; as grievous wolves. .
Grievously
GRIE'VOUSLY, adverb With pain; painfully; with great pain or distress; as, to be grievously afflicted.
1. With discontent, ill will or grief.
2. Calamitously; miserably; greatly; with great uneasiness, distress or grief.
3. Atrociously; as, to sin or offend grievously
Grievousness
GRIE'VOUSNESS, noun Oppressiveness; weight that gives pain or distress; as the grievousness of a burden.
1. Pain; affliction; calamity; distress; as the grievousness of sickness, war or famine.
2. Greatness; enormity; atrociousness; as the grievousness of sin or offenses.
Griffon
GRIF'FON, noun [Latin gryps, gryphus.]
In the natural history of the ancients, an imaginary animal said to be generated between the lion and eagle. It is represented with four legs, wings and a beak, the upper part resembling an eagle, and the lower part a lion. This animal was supposed to watch over mines of gold and hidden treasures, and was consecrated to the sun. The figure of the griffon is seen on ancient medals, and is still borne in coat-armor. It is also an ornament of Greek architecture.
Griffon-Like
GRIF'FON-LIKE, adjective Resembling a griffon.
Grig
GRIG, noun A small eel; the sand ell.
1. A merry creature.
2. Health.
Grill
GRILL, verb transitive To broil. [Not in use.]
GRILL, adjective Shaking with cold.
Grilly
GRIL'LY, verb transitive To harass. [Not in use.]
Grim
GRIM, adjective [Latin fremo; Eng. grumble, rumble.]
1. Fierce; ferocious; impressing terror; frightful; horrible; as a grim look; a grim face; grim war.
2. Ugly; ill looking.
3. Sour; crabbed peevish; surly.
Grim-Faced
GRIM'-FACED, adjective Having a stern countenance.
Grim-Grinning
GRIM-GRINNING, adjective Grinning with a fierce countenance.
Grim-Visaged
GRIM-VISAGED, adjective Grim-faced.
Grimace
GRIMA'CE, noun
1. A distortion of the countenance, from habit, affectation or insolence.
2. An air of affection.
Grimaced
GRIMA'CED, adjective Distorted; having a crabbed look.
Grimalkin
GRIMAL'KIN, noun The name of an old cat.
Grime
GRIME, noun Foul matter; dirt; sullying blackness, deeply insinuated.
GRIME, verb transitive To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.
Grimly
GRIM'LY, adjective Having a hideous or stern look.
GRIM'LY, adverb Fiercely; ferociously; with a look of fury or ferocity.
1. Sourly; sullenly.
Grimness
GRIM'NESS, noun Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness.
Grimy
GRI'MY, adjective Full of grime; foul.
Grin
GRIN, verb intransitive
1. To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter or scorn.
Fools grin on fools.
2. To fix the teeth, as in anguish.
GRIN, noun The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of
withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth.
GRIN, noun A snare or trap. [Not in use.]
GRIN, verb transitive To express by grinning.
He grinned horribly a ghastly smile.
Grind
GRIND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive ground. [This word, if n is radical, may be allied to rend; if not, it coincides with grate; to make smooth, as mollis in Latin , allied to molo.]
1. To break and reduce to fine particles or powder by friction; to comminute by attrition; to triturate.
Take the millstones and grind meal. .
We say, to grind meal, but this is an elliptical phrase. The true phrase is, to grind corn to meal.
2. To break and reduce to small pieces by the teeth.
3. To sharpen by rubbing or friction; to wear off the substance of a metallic instrument, and reduce it to a sharp edge by the friction of a stone; as, to grind an ax or scythe.
4. To make smooth; to polish by friction; as, to grind glass.
5. To rub one against another.
Harsh sounds--and the grinding of one stone against another, make a shivering or horror in the body and set the teeth on edge.
6. To oppress by severe exactions; to afflict cruelly; to harass; as, to grind the faces of the poor .
7. To crush in pieces; to ruin. .
8. To grate; as grinding pains.
GRIND, verb intransitive To perform the operation of grinding; to move a mill.
1. To be moved or rubbed together, as in the operation of grinding; as the grinding jaws.
2. To be ground or pulverized by friction.
Corn will not grind well before it is dry.
3. To be polished and made smooth by friction. Glass grinds smooth.
4. To be sharpened by grinding. Steel grinds to a fine edge.
Grinder
GRINDER, noun One that grinds, or moves a mill.
1. The instrument of grinding.
2. A tooth that grinds or chews food; a double tooth; a jaw-tooth.
3. The teeth in general.
Grinding
GRINDING, participle present tense Reducing to powder by friction; triturating; levitating; chewing.
1. Making sharp; making smooth or polishing by friction.
Grindstone
GRIND'STONE, noun A sandstone used for grinding or sharpening tools.
Stone, used by old writers, is obsolete.
Grinner
GRIN'NER, noun [See Grin.] One that grins.
Grinning
GRIN'NING, participle present tense Closing the teeth and showing them, as in laughter; a showing of the teeth.
Grinningly
GRIN'NINGLY, adverb With a grinning laugh.
Grip
GRIP, noun The griffon. [Not in use.]
GRIP, noun A grasp; a holding fast.
GRIP, noun A small ditch or furrow. [Not used in America.]
GRIP, verb transitive To trench; to drain. [Not used.]
Gripe
GRIPE, verb transitive [Latin rapio.]
1. To seize; to grasp; to catch with the hand, and to clasp closely with the fingers.
2. To hold fast; to hold with the fingers closely pressed.
3. To seize and hold fast in the arms; to embrace closely.
4. To close the fingers; to clutch.
5. To pinch; to press; to compress.
6. To give pain to the bowels, as if by pressure or contraction.
7. To pinch; to straiten; to distress; as griping poverty.
GRIPE, verb intransitive To seize or catch by pinching; to get money by hard bargains or mean exactions; as a griping miser.
1. To feel the colic.
2. To lie too close to the wind, as a ship.
GRIPE, noun Grasp; seizure; fast hold with the hand or paw, or with the arms.
1. Squeeze; pressure.
2. Oppression; cruel exactions.
3. Affliction; pinching distress; as the gripe of poverty.
4. In seamen's language, the fore-foot or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.
5. Gripes, in the plural, distress of the bowels; colic.
6. Gripes, in seamen's language, an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes and hooks, fastened to ring-bolts in the deck to secure the boats.
Griper
GRIPER, noun One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.
Griping
GRIPING, participle present tense Grasping; seizing; holding fast; pinching; oppressing; distressing the bowels.
GRIPING, noun A pinching or grasp; a distressing pain of the bowels; colic.
1. In seamen's language, the inclination of a ship to run to the windward of her course.
Gripingly
GRIPINGLY, adverb With a pain in the bowels.
Gripple
GRIP'PLE, adjective [from gripe.] Griping; greedy; covetous; unfeeling.
1. Grasping fast; tenacious.
Grippleness
GRIP'PLENESS, noun Covetousness.
Gris
GRIS, noun A kind of fur.
Grisamber
GRISAMBER, used by Milton for ambergris.
Grise
GRISE, noun [Latin gressus.] A step, or scale of steps.
1. A swine.
Grisette
GRISETTE, noun griset'. A tradesman's wife or daughter. [Not used.]
Griskin
GRIS'KIN, noun [See Grise.] The spine of a hog. [Not in use.]
Grisly
GRIS'LY, adjective s as z. Frightful; horrible; terrible; as grisly locks; a grisly countenance; a grisly face; a grisly specter; a grisly bear.
Grisons
GRIS'ONS, noun Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss alps.
Grist
GRIST, noun
1. Properly, that which is ground; hence, corn ground; but in common usage, it signifies corn for grinding, or that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time or the meal it produces.
Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store.
2. Supply; provision.
3. Profit; gain; [as in Latin emolumentum, from molo, to grind; ] in the phrase, it brings grist to the mill.
Gristle
GRIS'TLE, noun gris'l. [Latin cartil, in cartilago; cartil for cratil; Gr. strong.] A cartilage; a smooth, solid, elastic substance in animal bodies, chiefly in those parts where a small easy motion is required, as in the nose, ear, larynx, trachea and sternum. It covers the ends of all bones which are united by movable articulations.
Gristly
GRIST'LY, adjective Consisting of gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous; as the gristly rays of fins connected by membranes.
Gristmill
GRIST'MILL, noun A mill for grinding grain.
Grit
GRIT, noun
1. The coarse part of meal.
2. Oats hulled, or coarsely ground; written also groats.
3. Sand or gravel; rough hard particles.
4. Sandstone; stone composed of particles of sand agglutinated.
Grith
GRITH, noun Agreement. [Not in use.]
Gritstone
GRIT'STONE, noun [See Grit.]
Grittiness
GRIT'TINESS, noun The quality of containing grit or consisting of grit, sand or small hard, rough particles of stone.
Gritty
GRIT'TY, adjective Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; full of hard particles; sandy.
Grizelin
GRIZ'ELIN. [See Gridelin.]
Grizzle
GRIZ'ZLE, noun Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black.
Grizzled
GRIZ'ZLED, adjective Gray; of a mixed color. .
Grizzly
GRIZ'ZLY, adjective Somewhat gray.
Groan
GROAN, verb intransitive [Latin grunnio; Heb. to cry out, to groan; Latin rana, a frog.]
1. To breathe with a deep murmuring sound; to utter a mournful voice, as in pain or sorrow.
For we that are in this tabernacle, do groan being burdened. .
2. To sigh; to be oppressed or afflicted; or to complain of oppression. A nation groans under the weight of taxes.
GROAN, noun A deep mournful sound, uttered in pain, sorrow or anguish.
1. Any low, rumbling sound; as the groans of roaring wind.
Groanful
GROANFUL, adjective Sad; inducing groans.
Groaning
GROANING, participle present tense Uttering a low mournful sound.
GROANING, noun The act of groaning; lamentation; complaint; a deep sound uttered in pain or sorrow.
I have heard the groaning of the children of
Israel. .
1. In hunting, the cry or noise of the buck.
Groat
GROAT, noun grawt.
1. An English money of account, equal to four pence.
2. A proverbial name for a small sum.
Groats
GROATS, noun [See Grit.] Oats that have the hulls taken off.
Groats-Worth
GROATS-WORTH, noun The value of a groat.
Grocer
GRO'CER, noun A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, liquors, fruits, etc.
Grocery
GRO'CERY, noun A grocer's store.
1. The commodities sold by grocers; usually in the plural.
Grog
GROG, noun A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened.
GROG'-BLOSSOM, noun A rum bud; a redness on the nose or face of men who drink ardent spirits to excess; a deformity that marks the beastly vice of intemperance.
Grogdrinker
GROG'DRINKER, noun One addicted to drinking grog.
Groggy
GROG'GY, adjective A groggy horse is one that bears wholly on his heels in trotting.
1. In vulgar language, tipsy; intoxicated.
Grogram
GROG'RAM
GROG'RAN, noun A kind of stuff made of silk and mohair.
Grogran
GROG'RAN, n. A kind of stuff made of silk and mohair.
Groin
GROIN, noun
1. The depressed part of the human body between the belly and the thigh.
2. Among builders, the angular curve made by the intersection of two semi-cylinders or arches.
3. The snout or nose of a swine.
GROIN, verb intransitive To groan.
Gromet
GROM'ET
GROM'IL , noun A plant of the genus Lithospermum. The German gromwell is the Stellera.
Gromil
GROM'IL , n. A plant of the genus Lithospermum. The German gromwell is the Stellera.
Grommet
GROM'MET, noun Among seamen, a ring formed of a strand of rope laid in three times round; used to fasten the upper edge of a sail to its stay.
Gromwell
GROM'WELL
GROOM, noun
1. A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant.
2. A man or boy who has the charge of horses; one who takes care of horses or the stable.
3. In England, an officer of the king's household; as the groom of the chamber; groom of the stole or wardrobe.
4. Groom for goom, in bridegroom, is a palpable mistake.
Groom
GROOM, n. 1. A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant.2. A man or boy who has the charge of horses; one who takes care of horses or the stable.3. In England, an officer of the king's household; as the groom of the chamber; groom of the stole or wardrobe.4. Groom for goom, in bridegroom, is a palpable mistake.
Groop
GROOP, noun
1. A cluster, crowd or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things; a number collected without any regular form or arrangement; as a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
2. In painting and sculpture, an assemblage of two or more figures of men, beasts or other things which have some relation to each other.
GROUP
GROOP, verb transitive To form a group; to bring or place together in a cluster or knot; to form an assemblage.
The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects.
Grooped
GROOP'ED, participle passive Formed or placed in a crowd.
Grooping
GROOP'ING, participle present tense Bringing together in a cluster or assemblage.
GROUP'ING, noun The art of composing or combining the objects of a picture or piece of sculpture.
Groove
GROOVE, noun groov.
1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow cut by a tool. Among joiners, a channel in the edge of a molding, style or rail.
2. Among miners, a shaft or pit sunk into the earth.
GROOVE, verb transitive To cut a channel with an edged tool; to furrow.
Groover
GROOV'ER, noun A miner.
Grooving
GROOV'ING, participle present tense Cutting in channels.
Grope
GROPE, verb intransitive
1. To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling.
We grope for the wall like the blind. .
The dying believer leaves the weeping children of mortality to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life.
2. To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.
GROPE, verb transitive To search by feeling in the dark.
We groped our way at midnight.
But Strephon, cautious, never meant
The bottom of the pan to grope
Groper
GRO'PER, noun One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.
Groping
GRO'PING, participle present tense Feeling for something in darkness; searching by feeling.
Gross
GROSS, adjective [Latin crassus.]
1. Thick; bulky; particularly applied to animals; fat; corpulent; as a gross man; a gross body.
2. Coarse; rude; rough; not delicate; as gross sculpture.
3. Coarse, in a figurative sense; rough; mean; particularly, vulgar; obscene; indelicate; as gross language; gross jests.
4. Thick; large; opposed to fine; as wood or stone of a gross grain.
5. Impure; unrefined; as gross sensuality.
6. Great; palpable; as a gross mistake; gross injustice.
7. Coarse; large; not delicate; as gross features.
8. Thick; dense; not attenuated; not refined or pure; as a gross medium of sight; gross air; gross elements.
9. Unseemly; enormous; shameful; great; as gross corruptions; gross vices.
10. Stupid; dull.
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
11. Whole; entire; as the gross sum, or gross amount, as opposed to a sum consisting of separate or specified parts.
GROSS, noun The main body; the chief part; the bulk; the mass; as the gross of the people. [We now use bulk.]
1. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as a gross of bottles. It never has the plural form. We say, five gross or ten gross
In the gross in gross in the bulk, or the whole undivided; all parts taken together.
By the gross in a like sense.
GROSS weight, is the weight of merchandize or goods, with the dust and dross, the bag, cask, chest, etc., in which they are contained, for which an allowance is to be made of tare and tret. This being deducted, the remainder or real weight is denominated neat or net weight. gross weight has lately been abolished in Connecticut by statute, May, 1827.
In English law, a villain in gross was one who did not belong to the land, but immediately to the person of the lord, and was transferrable by deed, like chattels, from one owner to another.
Advowson in gross an advowson separated from the property of a manor, and annexed to the person of its owner.
Common in gross is common annexed to a man's person, and not appurtenant to land.
Gross-Headed
GROSS-HEADED, adjective Having a thick skull; stupid.
Grossbeak
GROSSBEAK, noun A fowl of the genus Loxia, of several species. The bill is convex above and very thick at the base, from which circumstance it takes its name.
Grossly
GROSSLY, adverb In bulky or large parts; coarsely. This matter is grossly pulverized.
1. Greatly; palpably; enormously; as, this affair has been grossly misrepresented.
2. Greatly; shamefully; as grossly criminal.
3. Coarsely; without refinement or delicacy; as language grossly vulgar.
4. Without art or skill.
Grossness
GROSSNESS, noun Thickness; bulkiness; corpulence; fatness; applied to animal bodies.
1. Thickness; spissitude; density; as the grossness of vapors.
2. Coarseness; rudeness; want of refinement or delicacy; vulgarity; as the grossness of language; the grossness of wit.
Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the ear of delicacy.
3. Greatness; enormity; as the grossness of vice.
Grossular
GROSS'ULAR, adjective Pertaining to or resembling a gooseberry; as grossular garnet.
GROSS'ULAR, noun A rare mineral of the garnet kind, so named from its green color.
Grot
GROT
GROTESK' , adjective Wildly formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; ludicrous; antic; resembling the figure found in the subterraneous apartments in the ancient ruins at Rome; applied to pieces of sculpture and painting, and to natural scenery; as grotesque painting; grotesque design.
GROTESQUE
GROTESK' , noun Whimsical figures or scenery.
Grotesk
GROTESK' , a. Wildly formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; ludicrous; antic; resembling the figure found in the subterraneous apartments in the ancient ruins at Rome; applied to pieces of sculpture and painting, and to natural scenery; as grotesque painting; grotesque design.
Groteskly
GROTESK'LY , adjective In a fantastical manner.
Grotesque
GROTESQUE
GROTESQUELY
GROT'TO, noun
1. A large cave or den; a subterraneous cavern, and primarily a natural cave or rent in the earth, or such as is formed by a current of water, or an earthquake.
2. A cave for coolness and refreshment.
Grotesquely
GROTESQUELY
Grotto
GROT'TO, n. 1. A large cave or den; a subterraneous cavern, and primarily a natural cave or rent in the earth, or such as is formed by a current of water, or an earthquake.2. A cave for coolness and refreshment.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.