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The cony, ley hym on the bak in the dlsch, if he haue 
grece. Baueex Book (E. E. T. 8.X p. 145. 
Is not the grease of a mutton as wholesome? 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 
"A great bear, that had been imported from Greenland 
for the sake of its grease." "That should at least have 
saved you a bill with your hairdresser. " 
Bulwer, My Novel, II. 360. 
2. In hunting, the fat of a hart, boar, wolf, fox, 
badger, hare, rabbit, etc., with reference to the 
season (called grease-time) when they are fat 
and fit for killing, and are said to be in grease 
or (formerly) of grease. 
That nane werreye my wylde boote Waynour hirselvene, 
And that in the sesone whenne grees es assignyde. 
Morte Arthure, MS. Lincoln, f. 60. (H alii well.) 
The harts are " in grease " from August to the middle 
of October. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 509. 
3. In farriery, a swelling and inflammation in 
a horse's legs attended with the secretion of 
oily matter and cracks in the skin. A hart of 
greaset. Seedef. 2. Bear's grease. See bear?. Foot 
grease, the refuse of cotton-seed after the oil is pressed 
out. U. S. Cons. Kep., No. Ivii. (1885), p. 19. Green 
grease, the thick portion of the products of coal-tar dis- 
tillation. It consists of heavy oils, some naphthalene, and 
anthracene. It is used as a coarse lubricating material. 
Ure, Diet., IV. 432. Also called anthracene oil. 
Commercial anthracene is obtained in the following 
manner from the so-called green grease. 
Benedikt, Coal-tar Colours (trans.), p. 68. 
In grease, fat and fit for killing, as game. See def. 2. 
In the grease, said of wool which has not been cleaned 
after shearing. Of greaset. Same as in grease. To fry 
or stew In one's own grease, (a) To be bathed in sweat. 
My father's ghost comes thro' the door, 
Though shut as sure as hands can make it, 
And leads me such a fearful racket, 
I stew all night in my own grease. 
Colton, Virgil Travestie (1807), p. 35. 
(ii) To suffer by one's own presumption or folly ; endure 
without mitigation or relief the evil consequences of one's 
own acts. 
But certeinly I made folk swich cheere, 
That in his owene grece I made hymfrye 
For angre and for verray jalousie. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 487. 
Saefryeth in hir owne grease, but as for my parte, 
If she be angry, beshrew her angry harte. 
_ . 211 Tli f ^' Heywood, Dialogue, etc. 
!S J \ ] slight strode 01 :" ^ or 8it2; *' P^- ^dpp. greased, 
scratch in passing. 
Paul had been touched a mere graze skin deep. 
Lever, Knight of Gwynne, III. 19. 
2. In gun., the point where a shot strikes the 
ground or water and rebounds. 
grazer (gra'zer), . 1. An animal that grazes, 
or feeds on growing herbage. 
graze 
2. To feed on; eat growing herbage from. 
He gave ray kine to graze the flowery plain ; 
And to my pipe renew'd the rural strain. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Pastorals, i. 
The meadows yield four crops of grass in the year ; the 
first three . . . are cut, the fourth is grazed off. 
Encyc. Brit., XVI. 292. 
3. To tend while grazing, as cattle. [Kare.] 
Jacob graz'd his uncle Laban's sheep. 
Shak., M. of V., i 3. 
graze 1 (graz), n. [< graze 1 , v.] The act of 
grazing or feeding on grass. 
Then he devoted himself to unharnessing Dobbin, and 
turning him out for a graze on the common. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 3. 
graze 2 (graz), v. ; pret. and pp. grazed, ppr. graz- 
ing. [Prob. only a particular use of graze*-, af- 
fected perhaps by association with raze, q. v. 
Not connected with grate 1 .'] I. trans. 1. To 
touch or rub lightly in passing ; brush lightly 
the surface of: as, the bullet grazed his cheek; 
the ship grazed the rocks. 
Is this the nature 
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue 
The shot of accident, nor dart of chance, 
Could neither graze nor pierce ? Shak., Othello, iv. 1. 
And veering 
Out of its track the brave ship onward steers, 
Just grazing ruin. . C. Thaxter, Wherefore ? 
2. To abrade ; scrape the skin from. 
Her little foot tripping over a stone, she fell and grazed 
her arm sadly. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown Folks, p. 147. 
II. intrans. To act with a slight rubbing or 
abrading motion ; give a light touch in moving 
or passing. 
The shot . . . 
Pierc'd Talgol's gaberdine, and grazing 
Upon his shoulder, in the passing, 
Lodg'd in Magnano's brass habergeon, 
Who straight " A surgeon ! " cried, " A surgeon ! " 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. ill 535. 
A grazing iron collar grinds my neck. 
Tennyson, St Simeon Stylites. 
In the reflected beam, light polarized in the plane of 
incidence preponderates until the incidence is a grazing 
one. A. Daniell, Prin. of Physics, p. 471. 
On the barren heath . . . the cackling goose, 
Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want. 
J. Philips, Cider, i. 
2. pi. [cap.'} Same as Boskoi. 
grazier (gra'zher), n. [Formerly also grasier; 
< graze + -ier. Cf. brazier 1 , glazier.'] One who 
grazes or pastures cattle for the market; a 
farmer who raises cattle for the market. 
The inhabitants be rather for the most parte grasiers 
then ploughmen, because they glue themselves more to 
feeding then to tillage. Stow, Description of England, p. 2. 
grazing (gra'zing), rs. [<ME.*fjtrasjfn<7(=MLG. 
grasinge, gressinge = G. grasung = Dan. grai- 
ning); verbal n. of graze 1 , r.] 1. The act of 
feeding on grass. 2f. A pasture. 
It is the custom to pay cash for the rent of grazings. 
J. Baker, Turkey, p. 403. 
grazing-ground (gra'zing-ground), n. Ground 
for cattle to graze on ; pasture-land. *v B ioa.rc wo i/<uiu u . u,,u<>. iv^uu^.j 
grazioso (gra-tse-6'so), a. [It., gracious, with grease-box (gres'boks), re. The axle-box of a 
grace, = E. gracious.] Graceful: in music, a railway-truck; an oil-box. 
word indicating a passage which is to be exe- grease-cock (gres'kok), n. In steam-engines, a 
cuted elegantly and gracefully. Also gratiosa. short pipe with two stop-cocks, fixed in the 
gre 1 t, n. See gree 1 . cylinder -cover for the purpose of introducing 
gre' 2 t, . See gree 2 melted grease into the cylinder to lubricate the 
greablet, a. [ME., < OF. greable, by apheresis piston without allowing the steam to escape. 
from agreable, agreeable : see agreeable.'] Dis- 
Epr. greasing. [< ME. gresen (= F. graisser) ; 
om the noun.] 1. To smear or anoint with 
grease or fat. 
The carriage bowls along, and all are pleas'd 
If Tom be sober, and the wheels well greas'd. 
Cowper, Progress of Error, 1. 439. 
2. To bribe ; corrupt with payments or gifts. 
[Obsolete or rare.] 
Envy not the store 
Of the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor. 
Dryden, tr. of Persius. 
3f. To gull; cheat. 
Is hell broke loose, and all the Furies flutter'd ? 
Am I greas'd once again ? 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, iv. 2. 
4. To cause to run easily, as if in a greased 
channel. 
The moment it (clarified syrup] is at crack, add a little 
acid to grease it Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 165. 
5. In farriery, to affect with the disease called 
grease To grease in the fistt, to bribe. Nans. 
Did you not grease the sealers of Leadenhall throughly 
m the Jwte, they would never be sealed, but turned away. 
Greene, Quip for an Upstart Courtier (Hurl. Misc., V. 411). 
He [Epicrates] betrayed Scythopolis and some other 
towns to the Jews, having been well greased in the fist 
for his paines. Abp. Ussher, Annals. 
To grease the palm of, to bribe. [C 
posed to agree ; agreeable. 
The cylinder cover is also provided with a grease cock, 
to supply the piston with unguent 
JKankine, Steam Engine, 337. 
grease-cup (gres'kup), n. A receptacle for solid 
Lat us tweyn in thys thyng be greable, 
Losse for loss, by iust conuencion. -_^. vo ___._ f 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. ill. lubricants, as the greases used in lubricating 
grease (gres), . [Early mod. E. also greese, heavy machinery ; an oil-cup. 
greece; < ME. grese, grees, sometimes spelled grease-jack (gres'jak), n. An apparatus for 
grece, < OF. gresse, graisse, F. graisse = Pr. improving the finish of leather. 
grais, m., graissa, f., = Sp. grasa = Pg. graxa greaser (gre'ser or gre'zer), n. \. One who or 
= It. grassa, grease, fat; fern, of OF. gras, F. tnat which greases, as the person who oils or 
gras = Pr. gras = Sp. graso = Pg. graxo = It. lubricates machinery, engines, etc. 2. [cap. 
grasso, thick, fat, < L.' crass us, thick, fat: see or ' c -] A native Mexican or native Spanish 
crass. Cf. Gael, cms, fat.] 1. Animal fat in -American: originally applied contemptuously 
a soft state ; oily or unctuous animal matter of by Americans inthe southwestern United States 
any kind, as tallow, suet, or lard ; particularly, to tne Mexicans. 
the fatty matter of land-animals, as distin- 
guished from the oily matter of marine ani- 
mals. 
cowboys gathered from the country round about 
The Century, XXXVI. 83. 
great 
Blameworthy carelessness that too often permitted the 
viler elements of the camp to enforce by actions their 
rude race-hatred of the (jrnwe.r*. This tendency to de- 
spiae, abuse, and override the .Spanish-American may well 
lit 1 rulled one of the darkest threads in the fabric of Anglo- 
Saxon frontier government. 
C. H. Shinn, Mining Camps, p. 218. 
3. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida . [Havre 
de Grace, Maryland, U. S.] 
greasewood (gres'wud), n. One of various low 
shrubs prevalent in saline localities in the dry 
valleys of the western United States. They 
are mostly chenopodiaceous, of the genera Sar- 
cobatus, Grayia, Atriplex, Spirostachijs, etc. 
The land for the most part is covered with cactus, sage 
brush, grease wood. Nature, XXXVIII. 630. 
greasily (gre'si-li or gre'zi-li), adv. 1. In a 
greasy manner; with or as with grease. 2t. 
Grossly; indecently. 
You talk greasily; your lips grow foul. 
Shak., L. L. L., iv. 1. 
greasiness (gre'si-nes or gre'zi-nes), n. 1. The 
quality or state of being greasy; unctupusness. 
Hence 2. Deficiency in limpidness; viscosity, 
like that of oil : said of wines. 
M. Pasteur has discovered that the greasiness of wines 
is likewise produced by a special ferment, which the mi- 
croscope shows to be formed of filaments, like the fer- 
ments of the preceding diseases, but differing in structure 
from the other organisms, and in their physiological ac- 
tion on the wine. 
Life of Pasteur, tr. by Lady Claude Hamilton, p. 118. 
greasy (gre'si or gre'zi), a. [Formerly also 
griesy; < grease + -y 1 .] 1. Full of grease; 
having much grease or fat; oily; unctuous; 
fat : as, greasy food. 
Let's consult together against this greasy knight (Fal- 
staff). Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 1. 
2. Smeared or soiled with grease ; hence, slip- 
pery as if from being greased. 
Mechanic slaves 
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall 
Uplift us to the view. Shak., A. and C., v. 2. 
The musty wine, foul cloth, or greasy glass. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 6. 
3. Like grease or oil ; seemingly unctuous to 
the touch: as, a chalk that has a greasy feel. 
4f. Slimy; muddy; foul. 
So she him lefte, and did her selfe betake 
Unto her boat again, with which she clefte 
The slouthfull wave of that great griesy lake. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vi 18. 
5f. Foggy; misty. 
So earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade 
Was all disperst out of the firmament, 
They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their journey went. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 67. 
6. Naut., dirty; foul; disagreeable: said of 
weather. 7t. Gross; indecent. 
Chaste cells, when greasi/ Aretine, 
For his rank flco, is surnamed divine. 
Marstan, Scourge of Villainle. 
8. In farriery, affected with the disease call- 
ed grease: as, a horse with greasy legs. 9. 
Successful in whaling; having taken a full 
cargo of oil: as in the expression greasi/ luck. 
[Whalers' slang.] 10. See the extract! 
Should the presence of mercury or a bad deposit pre- 
vent the [burnishing] tool from producing a bright sur- 
face [in electroplating], the object is said to be greasy. 
Gilder's Manual, p. 88. 
great (grat, formerly also gret), a. and n. [< 
ME. gret, grete, greet, earlier great, < AS. great 
= OS. grot = OFries. grat = D. groot ( > E. groat) 
= MLG. grot, LG. groot = OHG. groz, MHG. 
groz, G. gross, great, large. Not connected with 
L. grandis, great, grand, nor with ML. grossvs, 
F. gros, etc., great, gross : see grand and gross."] 
1. a. 1. Unusually or comparatively large in 
size or extent ; of large dimensions ; of wide 
extent or expanse; large; big: as, a great rock, 
house, farm, lake, distance, view, etc. 
Cypre is righte a gode He and a fayr and a gret, and It 
hathe 4 princypalle Cytees within him. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 27. 
His fancy, like an old mans spectacles, [doth] make a 
great letter in a small print 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Selfe-conceited Man. 
In our anxiety that our morality should not take cold, 
we wrap it up in a great blanket-surtout of precaution 
against the breeze and sunshine. 
Lamb, Artificial Comedy of the Last Century. 
2. Large in number; numerous: as, a great 
multitude ; a great collection. 
The king of Assyria sent Tartan . . . with a great host 
against Jerusalem. 2 Ki. rviii. 17. 
I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could 
number, . . . stood before the throne. Rev. vii. 9. 
In the latter End of the King's eleventh Year, the Earl 
of Arundel was sent to Sea, with a great Navy of Ships 
and Men of War. Baker, Chronicles, p. 146. 
