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grenadine (gren-a-den'), . [< F. grenadine, 
L, grenadine (cf.'greiiadin, m., a small frican- 
deau), dim. of grenade, a pomegranate, grenade: 
see grenade.] A thin fabric of silk, or of silk 
and wool, sometimes in meshes or openwork, 
resembling barege Grenadine crepon, a thin ma- 
terial made wholly of wool, transparent, but having a kind 
of check pattern made of coarser threads or cords. It is 
used for women's summer dresses. 
grenadot, See grenade. 
grenaquint, Same as cranequin. 
grenat, grenate (gren'at, -at), n. [< F. grenat, 
garnet: see garnet 1 .] It. Same as garnet 1 . 2. 
A coal-tar color formerly used for dyeing wool 
or silk brown. It is the potassium or ammo- 
nium salt of isopurpuric acid. See grenate 
brown, under brown. 
grenatiform (gre-nat'i-form), . [< F. grenat, 
garnet, + I,, forma, form.] Having the form 
or constitution of grenatite. 
grenatite (gren'a-tit), n. [< F. grenat, gar- 
net (see garnet 1 ) j+ -4te 2 .] Same as staurolite. grew 4 , grewan (gro, gro'an), . [Also gru: see 
Also granatite. greyhound.] Same as greyhound. [Scotch.] 
grenenedt, A Middle English form of green- grewhoundt, . See greyhound. 
head 2 . Grewia (gro'i-a) n. [NL., named after Dr. 
Grenet cell. See cell, 8. Nehemiah Grew (1628-1711), an English nat- 
Flowering Branch of Grerillea Thelcmanniana. 
He caate vp his yie vpon the halle dore and saugh the 
letteres that Merlin hadde writen in griewe. 
. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 437. 
Affore that tyme all spak Hebrew, 
Than sum began for to speik Greiv. 
Sir D. Lyndsay. 
gride 
vault or a sewer ; a guard to cover parts of ma- 
chinery, etc.; a grating of bars; a gridiron. 
Finally, over the whole are spread iron grids, so as to 
present fiat surfaces, from which the lime mud, when 
well washed and drained, can be readily removed. 
Ure, Diet, IV. 64. 
The doors should be provided with a sliding or revolv- 
ing grid, for admitting air above the fire. 
R. Wilson, Steam Boilers, p. 152. 
It is an advantage ... to have an arrangement of grid 
under the beds [in a hospital] communicating directly 
with the outside, ... so as to sweep away any air stag- 
nating under the beds. 
J. Constantine, Pract. Ventilation, p. 24. 
2. A heavy framing of timbers used to support 
a ship in a dock. 
When the grid is in place the press-head can be low- 
ered. Set. Amer. Supp., p. 8961. 
3. In elect. , a zinc element in a primary battery, 
ike a grating or gridiron ; the lead plate 
See cell, 8. 
grest, n. An obsolete form of grass. Chaucer. 
gres (gra), n. [F.: see grail$.] Grit; sand- 
stone; stoneware. 
The vase portrayed on the opposite page, the body of 
the object being of gres, and the ornamentation in red 
eneobe and green and white porcelain paste. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 660. 
Ores de Flandres, the fine stoneware of Germany made 
at Cologne and other places on or near the Rhine. As 
shaped like a gra t: __ _ 
of a secondary or storage battery, consisting of 
a framework of bars crossing one another at 
right angles, into the openings of which the 
active matter of the plate is forced; also, a 
grating of ebonite used to prevent contact be- 
tween battery-plates Fork-and-grld stop-mo- 
tion, in weaving. See stop-motion. 
uralist and one of the earliest writers on vege- griddle (grid'l), re. [North. E. and Sc. trans- 
table anatomy.] A tiliaceous genus of trees posed girdle; < ME. gridel, gridele, gredil, gredel, 
and shrubs, found in the warmer parts of the 
old world, and including about 60 species. 
Most of them have a fibrous inner bark, used in some cases 
for making nets, rope, etc. The dhamnoo of India, G. 
elastica, and the G. occidental^ of South Africa furnish a 
very strong and elastic wood. G. Aiiatiea and G. sapida 
are cultivated in India for their fruits, which are pleasantly 
acid and are used for flavoring sherbets. 
grewndt, A contracted form of grewhound. 
grewsome, grewsomeness. See gruesome, grue- 
a griddle, a gridiron (appearing also in the ac- 
com. forms gridire, gredire, grydyrne, gredirne, 
etc., E. gridiron, q. v.), < W. gredyll, greidell, 
gradell, OW. gratell, a griddle, a grate, = Ir. 
greideil, greideal, a griddle, gridiron, = OF. 
graille, graille, grele, F. grille, f ., a grate, a grat- 
ing; cf. OF. grail, m., F. gril, m. (>E. griM), a 
gridiron, = It. gradella, a fish-basket, hurdle, 
< L. craticula, f., ML. sometimes graticula, f., 
and craticulus, m., a gridiron, dim. of cratis, a 
hurdle, wickerwork: see grill 2 , gridiron (dou- 
blets of griddle), grate 2 , crate, hurdle. The Cel- 
duced to replace the old name. 
grese't, n. A Middle English form of grease, sameness. 
Chaucer. grewt (grot), n. [Origin obscure.] A miners' 
grese 2 t, . A Middle English form of greese 2 . najne for earth of a different color from the ulow , ui ,,,. - 
Greshamist (gresh'am-ist), re. [< Gresham (see res t found on the banks of rivers in searching tic forms are from foe L., but appear to be ac- 
def. ) + -ist.] A fellow of Gresham College m for mines. Also spelled greut. com to w qreidio, scorch, singe, Ir. greadaim, 
London (founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in gr ey greybeard, etc. See gray, etc. l scorch, parch, burn, Gael, gread, scorch, burn, 
the sixteenth century), or of the Koyal bociety greyhound (gra'hound), re. [Less commonly Tte gw _ q ra ~dda, bake, is tferhaps of Celtic ori- 
of London in its early days, from its meeting in ' > ' w ..*~..,.j ,., ,},,,,? ;_ .,*.. . f .,. , 
Gresham College. 
There were some of our Greshamists who thought one 
or other of the two former comets might be seen again 
after some time. Oldenburg, To Boyle, Aug. 29, 1665. 
gressamt, . Same as gersome. 
gressiblet (gres'i-bl), a. [< L. gressus, pp. of 
gradi, walk, go: see grade 1 .] 
gressingt, . See greesing. 
gressomt, Same as gersome. 
Gressoria (gre-so'ri-a), n. pi. _ [NL., neut. pi. 
Able to wa' 
ip. < 
,1k. 
of gressorius : see gressorious.] A suborder of 
orthopterous insects, having the body long and greyhound, lit. 'Gallic'), while the ordinary 
slender, with slim legs, the posterior femora of spelling and the Sc. equiv. gray dog suggest a 
grayhound; < ME. greyhound, grayhund, grai- - n ;-r j " A "t'ed utensiffor broiling flesh and 
hond,grehound,grewhound,grewhond,greahund, g gh . same as oridmro. 1. [Now chiefly prov. 
gryhond, grihond (once corruptly grifliound (cf. E -i 
OD. grijphund), as if 'gripe-hound,' and once 
gresehownd: see below), < AS. grighund (found 
only once, in a gloss, = Icel. greyhundr, a grey- 
hound), < "grig (not found alone) (= Icel. grey, 
a greyhound; cf. grey-baka, a bitch, grey-karl, 
a dogged churl, etc.) + hund, hound. The Sc. 
forms grew, grewan, and the ME. greichound and 
gresehownd, appear to be accom. to the ME. 
Grew, Greek, Grese, Grece, Greece (cf . Sp. galgo, 
Seint Lorens also itholede [tholed, suffered J thet te gredil 
hef him upwardes mid berninde gleden. 
Ancren Riwle, p. 122. 
2. A broad disk or shallow pan of iron, used 
chiefly for cooking thin cakes over a fire. 
Host hit afterwarde apone a gredel. 
Liber Cure Cocorum, p. 13. 
which are not thickened, and the head exserted. connection with the color gray ; but the real ori- 
It contains the curious insects known as walking-sticks, g ; n o f ^he first element is unknown. Cf . Gael. 
tall, very slender, 
, 
walking-leaves, praying-nMntee, praying-mantids, sooth- 
j n O f ^ ne nrs t element i 
, nound n 
"' WTOUM.J 
sayers, specter's, rea'rh^es, racehorses, and carnal-insects. tf> ""^".'J t' * ZJi,fVh' 
There are two very distinct families, the Mantidai and the fleet dog, kept for the chase, remarkable tor the 
symmetrical strength and beauty of its form, 
Phasmidte. 
gressorial (gre-so'ri-al), a. [< gressori-ous + 
-al.] In 2067., adapted for walking; formed for 
or having the habit of walking ; ambulatory ; 
specifically, in entom., of or pertaining to the 
Gressoria : as, gressorial feet ; gressorial birds ; 
gressorial insects. 
gressorious (gre-so'ri-us), a. [< NL. gresso- 
rius, < L. as if "gressor, a walker, < gradi, pp. 
gressus, walk : see grade 1 .] In entom., same as 
gressorial. 
gressuillt, re. Same as gersome. 
grete 1 !, A Middle English form of greet 1 . 
Chaucer. 
grete 2 ti *' * A Middle English form of greet 2 . 
grete s t, <* and v. A Middle English form of 
great. Chaucer. 
grettyt, An obsolete form of gritty. 
greut, n. See grewt. 
greveH, A Middle English form of greeve 1 . 
greve 2 !, n. A Middle English form of greave 2 . 
greve 3 t, A Middle English form of greave*. 
Grevillea (gre-vil'e-a), . FNL., named after 
Robert 
1866).] 
3. A griddle-cake. [Local, U. S.] 
The griddles ot Mrs. Durfee in the Tea-House at the Glen 
shall not want an historian, as they have not wanted troops 
of lovers. S. De Vere, Account of Newport (1858). 
4. In mining, a sieve with a wire bottom. 5. 
One of the iron plates fitted as lids to the round 
apertures for cooking-utensils in the top of a 
cooking-stove or range. 
A cake of batter 
its keen sight, and its great fleetriess. There are griddle-cake (&WVU&, " 
many subvarteties of the gFeyhound, from the Irish grey- cooked on a griddle. [U. B.] 
hound and Highland breed to the smooth-haired English 
breeds and the Italian greyhound. It is one of the old- 
monuments. It is supposed to be the gazehound of old 
English writers. 
Greyhoundes [var. yrehomtdes] he hadde as swift as fowel 
in flight. Chaucer, Gen. ProL to C. T.,1. 190. 
Thy greyhounds are as swift 
As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe. 
Shale., T. of the S., Ind., ii. 
2. Figuratively, a fast-sailing ship, especially 
an ocean passenger-steamship. 
They [ships] are built in the strongest possible manner 
for such constructions, and are so swift of foot as to have 
already become formidable rivals to the English grey- 
hounds. Sci. Amer., N. 8., LVI. 2. 
Grias (gri'as), re. [NL.] A myrtaceous genus 
of two or three species, tall trees, natives of 
tropical America. The fruit of G. cauliflora, of Jamaica, 
known as the anchovy-pear, is a russet-brown drupe, which 
is pickled like the manfco. The large glossy leaves are 
borne in plume-like clusters at the ends of the branches, 
rendering the tree very ornamental. 
very showy, and several species have been cultivated as 
greenhouse-plants. The silky oak, O. mktixta, is a large 
tree with beautifully marked wood which is used for cabi- 
net-work and largely for staves for tallow-casks. See cut 
in next column. 
grew 1 (gro). Preterit of grow. 
grew 2 (gro), v. Another spelling of grue. 
crustacean, 
ing to the family Asellida;. It is a little creature 
like a wood-louse, capable of rolling itself up into a ball, 
and is very destructive to submerged timber, into which 
it bores. The term extends to some related forms. 
griceH, See grise 2 . 
grice 2 t, n. See greese 2 . 
Grew 3 t, [< ME. Grew, Grew, Griewe, < OF. grice s t, and . See grise*. 
grieu, grin, gren, gru, gri, Greek, a Greek: see grid (grid), n. [Shortened from griddle or grid- 
Greek.] 1. A Greek. 2. The Greek language, iron.] 1. A grating or openwork cover for a 
The flre in the stove went down ; the griddle-cakes grew 
cold. E. E. Hale, Ten Times One, iv. 
gride (grid), .; pret. and pp. grided, ppr. grid- 
ing. [A transposition of gird 2 , < ME. girden, 
gyrden, strike, cut : see gird 2 . The transposi- 
tion is not, however, of popular origin, as in 
the opposite cases bird 1 from brid, bird 2 from 
bride, girdle 2 from griddle, etc., but is artificial, 
being a manipulation (appar. first by Spenser 
and adopted by subsequent poets) of the ME. 
form girde. The word has nothing to do with 
It. gridare, cry: seecr^.] I. trans. If. To pierce; 
cut. 
The kene cold blowes through my beaten hyde, 
All as I were through the body gryde. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., February. 
Last with his goad amongst them he doth go, 
And some of them he gndeth in the haunches. 
Drayton, Mooncalf, ii. 612. 
2. To grate; jar harshly. 
The wood which grides and clangs 
Its leafless ribs and iron boms 
Together. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvii. 
II. intrans. If. To act or pass cuttingly or 
piercingly. 
His poynant speare he thrust with puissant sway 
At proud Cymochles, whiles his shield was wyde, 
That through his thigh the mortall steele did gryde. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. viit 30. 
So sore 
The griding sword with discontinuous wound 
Pass'd through him. Milton, P. L., vi. 329. 
2. To grate; grind; scrape harshly; make a 
grating sound. 
