Grinningly Grin"ning·ly adverb In a grinning manner.
Grint Grint 3d pers. sing. present of Grind , contr. from grindeth . [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Grinte Grin"te obsolete
imperfect of Grin , intransitive verb , 1. [ He] grinte with his teeth, so was he wroth.
Chaucer.
Grinting Grint"ing noun Grinding. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Grip Grip noun [ Latin
gryps ,
gryphus . See
Griffin ,
Grype .]
(Zoology) The griffin. [ Obsolete]
Grip Grip noun [ Confer Anglo-Saxon
grip furrow, hitch, Dutch
greb .]
A small ditch or furrow. Ray.
Grip Grip transitive verb To trench; to drain.
Grip Grip noun [ Anglo-Saxon
gripe . Confer
Grip ,
transitive verb ,
Gripe ,
transitive verb ]
1. An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping. 2. A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip . 3. That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword. 4. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
Grip Grip transitive verb [ From
Grip a grasp; or P.
gripper to seize; -- of German origin. See
Gripe ,
transitive verb ]
To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.
Grip Grip noun 1. Specif., an apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable. 2. A gripsack; a hand bag; a satchel. [ Colloq.]
3. (Medicine) The influenza; grippe.
Grip car Grip car A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.
Gripe Gripe noun [ See
Grype .]
(Zoology) A vulture; the griffin. [ Obsolete]
Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.
Shak. Gripe's egg ,
an alchemist's vessel. [ Obsolete]
E. Jonson.
Gripe Gripe transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Griped ;
present participle & verbal noun Griping .] [ Anglo-Saxon
gripan ; akin to Dutch
grijpen , German
greifen , Old High German
gr...fan , Icelandic
gripa , Swedish
gripe , Danish
gribe , Goth.
greipan ; confer Lithuanian
graibyti , Russian
grabite to plunder, Sanskrit
grah ,
grabh , to seize. Confer
Grip ,
transitive verb ,
Grope .]
1. To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch. 2. To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely. Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure ?
Robynson (More's Utopia). 3. To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances. How inly sorrow gripes his soul.
Shak.
Gripe Gripe intransitive verb 1. To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe. 2. To suffer griping pains. Jocke. 3. (Nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm. R. H. Dana, Jr.
Gripe Gripe noun 1. Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch. A barren scepter in my gripe .
Shak. 2. That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword. 3. (Mech.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel. 4. Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty. 5. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural. 6. (Nautical) (a) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot. (b) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. (c) plural An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging. Gripe penny ,
a miser; a niggard. D. Latin Mackenzie.
Gripeful Gripe"ful adjective Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
Griper Grip"er adjective One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.
Gripingly Grip"ing·ly adverb In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.
Gripman Grip"man noun The man who manipulates a grip.
Grippe Grippe noun [ French]
(Medicine) The influenza or epidemic catarrh. Dunglison.
Gripper Grip"per noun 1. One who, or that which, grips or seizes. 2. plural In printing presses, the fingers or nippers.
Gripple Grip"ple noun A grasp; a gripe. [ Obsolete]
Spenser.
Gripple Grip"ple adjective [ Dim. from gripe.]
Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious. [ Obsolete]
Spenser.
Grippleness Grip"ple·ness noun The quality of being gripple. [ Obsolete]
Gripsack Grip"sack` noun A traveler's handbag. [ Colloq.]
Gris Gris adjective [ Old French & F., from Late Latin
griseus ; of German origin; confer Middle High German
gris , German
greis , hoary. Confer
Grizzle .]
Gray. [ R.]
Chaucer.
Gris Gris noun [ Old French , from
gris gray. Confer German
grauwerk (lit. gray work) the gray skin of the Siberian squirrel. See
Gris ,
adjective ]
A costly kind of fur. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Gris Gris (grĭs)
noun sing. & plural [ See
Grice a pig.]
A little pig. [ Obsolete]
Piers Plowman.
Grisaille Gri"saille` noun [ French, from gris gray.]
1. (Fine Arts) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass. 2. A kind of French fancy dress goods. Knight.
Grisamber Gris"am`ber noun [ See
Ambergris .]
Ambergris. [ Obsolete]
Milton.
Grise Grise (grīs)
noun See Grice , a pig. [ Prov. Eng.]
Grise Grise (grīs or grēs)
noun [ Prop. plural of
gree a step.]
A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree. [ Obsolete]
Every grise of fortune
Is smoothed by that below.
Shak.
Griseous Gris"e·ous adjective [ Late Latin
griseus . See
Gris .]
Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly. Maunder.
Grisette Gri·sette" noun [ French, from grisette a gray woolen cloth, from
gris gray. Grisettes were so called because they wore gray gowns made of this stuff. See
Gars .]
A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne.
Griskin Gris"kin noun [ Grise a
pig + - kin .]
The spine of a hog. [ Obsolete]
Grisled Gri"sled adjective [ Obsolete]
See Grizzled.
Grisliness Gris"li·ness noun The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney.
Grisly Gris"ly adjective [ OE,
grisly ,
grislich , Anglo-Saxon
grislic ,
gryslic , from
gr...san t o shudder; confer OD.
grijselick horrible, Old High German
grisenl ?
ch , and also Anglo-Saxon
gre ?
san to frighten, and English
gruesome .]
Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold."
Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity.
Robynson (More's Utopia). Grisly bear .
(Zoology) See under Grizzly .
Grison Gri"son noun [ French, from
grison gray, gray-haired,
gris gray. See
Gris .]
(Zoology) (a) A South American animal of the family Mustelidae ( Galictis vittata ). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton . (b) A South American monkey ( Lagothrix infumatus ), said to be gluttonous.
Grisons Gri"sons noun plural [ French]
(Geology) (a) Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. (b) sing. The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.
Grist Grist noun [ Anglo-Saxon
grist , from
grindan . See
Grind .]
1. Ground corn; 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.
Tusser. Q. 2. Supply; provision. Swift. 3. In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands. Knight. All is grist that comes to his mill ,
all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [ Colloq.] --
To bring grist to the maill ,
to bring profitable business into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [ Colloq.]
Ayliffe.
Gristle Gris"tle noun [ Middle English
gristel ,
gristil , Anglo-Saxon
gristl ; akin to OFries.
gristel ,
grestel . Perh. a dim. of
grist but confer Old High German
krustila ,
krostela . Confer
Grist .]
(Anat.) Cartilage. See Cartilage . Bacon.
Gristly Gris"tly adjective (Anat.) Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.
Gristmill Grist"mill" noun A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
Grit Grit noun [ OE,
greet ,
greot , sand, gravel, Anglo-Saxon
greót grit, sant, dust; akin to OS
griott , OFries.
gret gravel, Old High German
grioz , German
griess , Icelandic
grjōt , and to English
groats ,
grout . See
Groats ,
Grout , and confer
Grail gravel.]
1. Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles. 2. The coarse part of meal. 3. plural Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats. 4. (Geol.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit ; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit . 5. Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit . 6. Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude. C. Reade. E. P. Whipple.
Grit Grit (grĭt)
intransitive verb To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.
Goldsmith.
Grit Grit transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Gritted ;
present participle &, verbal noun Gritting .]
To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth. [ Collog.]
Grith Grith (grĭth)
noun [ Anglo-Saxon
grið peace; akin to Icelandic
grid .]
Peace; security; agreement. [ Obsolete]
Gower.
Gritrock Grit"rock` (grĭt"rŏk`),
Grit"stone` (-stōn`)
noun (Geol.) See Grit , noun , 4.
Grittiness Grit"ti·ness (-tĭ*nĕs)
noun The quality of being gritty.
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