GRi 
ce RIP, in Agriculture, a {mall trench, gutter, or ditch, 
which is cut acrofs a meadow, pafture, or ploughe hed field, for 
the purpofe of draining it. In the laft it is moftly called a 
water or draining furrow. 
It may frequently be a good mode in draining meadow 
lands in this way, to cut out the pieces ina fomewhat wedge- 
like form, afterwards taking off the thin bottom parts, and 
then replacing them ; by which means a hollow or opening 
will be left a for cenduéting off the water. See Wa 
TER-FURR 
Grip, in S Reval Economy, a term fometimes employed 
provincially to fignify the hollow or cavity behind the cattle 
in cow-houfes or cattle fheds, into which the dung and urine 
of the animals are difcharged. | 'Thefe cavities fhould alwa 
be funk about eight, eae or twelve inches below - fie. 
face on which the cattle ftand, in order that they 
kept perfectly clean 
G IPE, i in Mecbitales: See CRAN 
Gri Rural Economy, a name Fish provincially ap- 
plied to fignify a dung fork. 
GriPE ac a Ship, in Sea Language, is the compafs or fharp- 
em under water, chiefly towards the bottom of 
e 
The defign of maps her fo is, to make her gripe the 
more, or wind ; for which purpofe, fometimes a 
falfe ftem is put on a the t true one. 
Grirx is alfo a fea phrafe fora fhip’s being apt to run too 
much to windward of her courfe, particularly when fhe fails 
with the wind on her beam or quarter ; this effect is partly 
occafioned ta the fhock of the waves that ftrike the fhi 
perpetually on the weather-quarter, and force the ftern to 
» leeward ; ae: principally by the ne Eres of tse" fails, 
which difpofes t the fhip continually to edge to windward, 
while in’ this fituation of failing : : in fach sak deg fay fhe 
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Guirrs, i in Ruvo? Economy, a name provincially applied 
to an implement of the forceps*kind, which is employed 
for the purpofe of eradicating and pulling up weeds of the 
thiitle and other fimilar ftrong kinds, when 6 re among 
and other forts of crops. See WEE 
~Grirgs, in Medicine, a painin the lower ent of lefs 
; Severity » and more moveable than the colic, occurring and 
ohne at intervals » and generally accompanied by a defire to 
go to ftool, and relieved by fuch evacuation. The gripes 
area common : ane of aon 3 they are alfo occa- 
fioned b by ines, or by any acrid 
prin ipally from improper Food, or from foie diveRion, 
rol an acid is formed, which gives a green colour to 
the bile, and probably renders it more ftimulating to the in- 
by green : 
rhubarb, and the flightly aromatic ; diitilled wate 
of dill, fennel, or mint, — relieve the comple in 
children, in , cneed 
_SENTERY, 
- Gripes, or Cole, = slate is an ed we aieale, to 
which 
ent ipeces.of this i irda oe 
: ed to 
ment ~ waking very cold water, even without previous 
Heating exercife, Tris fometimes produced by bad hay, 
not fucceed, boil ‘an ounce of pepp 
as thofe _ 
Eons Of the domias of chamomile or other common — 
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oats, or clover, or fuch as is new, and prone to fermentation, 
When this difeafe comes on without any apparent caufe, 
Mr. White fuggefts that it may probably depend upon a 
non action of the ftomach or bowels, occafioning a 
nftri€tion of the inteftine, and a confinement of air. The 
immediate ~— of the formation and confinement of the air, 
however, is, e conceives, weaknefs, or lofs of vital 
: and evekie the common flatulent colic is eafily 
by groams and farriers, who feldom give any other 
kind of medicines befides thofe of a ftimulating quality. This 
difeafe is known By the horfe’s alternately and fuddenly lying 
ay with es: fore feet, 
c has been fometimes difcharged by emptying 
the ftraight gut with a {mall hand dipt in oil, and thus the neck 
of the bladder is eafed of its load, and the horfe ftales. It 
is always proper to bleed young and plethoric horfes in the 
neck-vein, The following ball and clyfter feldom fail of 
givin relief: take Strafburgh or Venice turpentine, and 
pounded juniper berries, of each mig or ; 
prunella, or falt petre, an ounce ; oil of juniper one dram}; 
falt of tartar two drams; make thefe ae ae into a ball ~ 
with any fyrup; and give it whole, -wafhing it dewn with a 
and ftale plentifully, i in an hour or two give him ‘another . 
ball, and add to it a dram of falt of amber ; and this may be 
tween the balls, or a 
chamomile flowers two handfuls ; anife, coriander, and fen- 
nel — of each, an ounce ; 5 mete fue: half char ; 
well rubbed, clothed,- and littered with clean fie up to en 
belly : and a pint o brandy, rum, or geneva, wi 
much {weet oil, may be given fora wets and if this fhould. 
bP ginger in _— 
of milk, and add to it a handful Mf falt, and half a pint 
of oil, which, given warm, will purge in two.or three 
In the firft attacks of the colic, Mr. Taplin pevceimead 
the following ball to be given, according to ihe ftate of the 
ae every oe four, or fix hours; viz. annifeeds in 
“viz. Venice turpentine, 6 dr., or 1 02.3 5 pu 
Ped op a fects I & to 13 a 3 oil of Litfeeas, 1 dr. 3 
powdered ginger, 2dr. At the fame time cly ters, 
herbs, or of the gruel of oatmeal, with half a int of Fe : 
oil, or an equal ery oe! of hog’ aging and half a p i: 
common falt, fhould be occafionally injeéted tolerably: warm. 
hes go it is fai fpafr 
étion that attends the flatulent colic, when other me- ; 
dicines have “failed. Mr. White, in his “Compendium z “ 
Veterinary Art,” sbeanieuds to be given, as foon as : 
difeafe is ee the following draughts, viz. 1. ae a 
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