gride 
I leave the green and pleasant paths of song, 
The mild, sweet words which soften and adorn, 
For ijnling taunt and bitter laugh of scorn. 
Whittier, The Panorama. 
Against the sides the hostile vessels yet crushed and 
grided. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 158. 
gride (grid), n. [(gride, v.~\ A harsh grinding, 
cutting, or hacking; a harsh grating sound. 
The gridr. of hatchets fiercely thrown 
On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone. 
Whittier, Mogg Megone, iii. 
The trumpet, and the gride of wheels. 
L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 205. 
gridelin (grid'e-lin), n. [Also gredalin, grida- 
lin, grizelin, formerly gredaline ; < F.gris de tin, 
flax-gray: gris, gray (see grise*) ; de, ( L. de, of; 
I/n, < L. linum, flax : see /me 1 .] A pale-purple 
or gray-violet color. 
And his love, Lord help us, fades like my gredaline petti- 
coat. Killigrew, Parson's Wedding, ii. 8. 
A fine gridelin, bordering upon violet, is thereby ob- 
tained [in dyeing with archill ; out this color has no per- 
manence. Mac/arlane, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 47. 
gridiron (grid'i-6rn), n. [Early mod. E. also 
grediron, gyrdiron, gredyron, gredyern; < ME. 
grydyrne, gredirne, gredeyrne, gredyrne, and 
(without n) gridire, gredire, an accom., simu- 
lating ME. iren, ire, E. iron, of 'gridere for 
gridele, gridel, grcdel, a griddle, gridiron: see 
griddle. A like simulation occurs in andiron, 
q. v.] 1. A grated utensil for broiling flesh 
and fish over coals or in front of a fire-grate, 
usually a square frame with a handle, short 
legs, and transverse bars. 
And them shall make a gredyern also like a net of 
brasse. Bible of 1551, Ex. xxvii. 
He is a terror to the witnesses of the adverse party, 
whom he likes to browbeat and to keep broiling on the 
gridiron of his torturing inquisition. 
Howells, Annie Kiiburn, \\\. 
2. A frame formed of cross-beams of wood or 
iron, on which a ship rests for inspection or re- 
pair at low water ; a grid Gridiron pendulum, 
a form of compensation-pendulum. See pendulum. 
Gridiron valve, a forpi of engine-valve consisting of al- 
ternate bars and spaces, sliding over a similarly formed 
seat. 
gridiron (grid'i-ern), f. f. [< gridiron, n.] To 
coyer with parallel lines or bars, like those of a 
gridiron : often said of railroads, as giving such 
an appearance to the map. [U. S.J 
The Manitoba [railway] system gridirons north Minne- 
sota. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 664. 
This great territory is gridironed with transcontinental 
railways. J. Strong, Our Country, p. 167. 
griece 1 (gres), n. [Another spelling of greese^.'] 
In her., a degree or step, as one of 
the steps upon which crosses are 
sometimes placed. 
griece 2 t, " See grouse. 
grieced (grest), . [< griece + 
-ed?.] Having grieces or steps. 
Cross grieced, in her., same as cross 
degraded and conjoined (which see, 
under cros,i). Mount grieced. See 
mount. 
grief (gref), n. [Early mod. E. also greef (pi. 
grceves, greves) ; < ME. greef, gref, rarely grief, < 
OF. grief, F. grief (= Pr. greug, greuge), grief, 
heaviness of spirit, < OF. grief, gref, greu, grieu 
(fern, grieve) = Pr. greu, grieu = Sp. Pg. It. 
grave, heavy, grievous, sad, < L. gravis, heavy, 
grievous, sad : see grave 3 . Cf. grieve 1 .] 1. Re- 
gretful or remorseful sorrow; mental distress 
or misery caused by something done or suffered 
by one's self or others ; affliction ; woe. 
But that which did his grief augment, 
The child was stole away. 
The Seven Champions of Christendom (Child's Ballads, 
[I. 86). 
It is the nature of grief to keep Its object perpetually 
in its eye. Burke, Sublime and Beautiful. 
No greater grief than to remember days 
Of joy when misery is at hand. 
Cary, tr. of Dante's Inferno, v. 128. 
2. Cause of sorrow or pain ; that which afflicts 
or distresses; grievance. 
Our greeves to redresse. Chaucer, Mother of God, 1. 41. 
The Scottes, . . . desirous to be revenged of their olde 
greves, came to the erle with greate compaygnie. 
Halls Union, 1548, Hen. IV., fol. 20. (Nares.) 
St. Bodily pain ; physical suffering. 
Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or 
take away the grief of a wound ? No. 
Shot., 1 Hen. IV., v. 1. 
Cures all diseases coming of all causes ; 
A month's grief in a day, a year's in twelve. 
B. Jonsnn, Alchemist, ii. 1. 
The oyle which is made of the [bay] berries is very com- 
fortable in all cold grief es of the joynts. 
Parkinson, Theater of Plants (1640), p. 1489. 
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Grief -muscles. See muscle. To come to grief, to 
come to a bad end or issue ; turn out badly ; meet with 
misfortune. 
As for coming to grief, old boy, we're on a good errand, 
I suppose, and the devil himself can't harm us. 
Kingsley, Two Years Ago, xxi. 
At one spot I nearly came to grief for good and all, 
for in running along a shelving ledge covered with loose 
slates, one of these slipped as I stepped on it, throwing 
me clear over the brink. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXVI. 209. 
=Syn. 1. Sorrow, Wretchednets, etc. (see affliction); bit- 
terness, heartache, anguish, agony, woe. 
griefful (gref'ful), a. [Early mod. E. also grie- 
full, grefful; < grief + -fill.] Full of grief or 
sorrow. 
Soche pushes in the visages of men are angrle things 
and gre/ttl. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 79. 
Each the other gan with passion great 
And grief ull pittie privately bemone. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. i. 18. 
Nothing grief ull grows from love. 
Greene, Francesco's Ode. 
griefheadt,. [WE.greflied(1).~\ Sadness. Chau- 
cer. See greenhead 2 . 
grieflyt, ". [< grief + -fyl.] Expressive of 
grief; dolorous. 
With dayly diligence and grielly groans he wan her af- 
lection. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
grieflyt, adv. 
E. D. 
grief-shot (gref'shot), a. 
sorrow-stricken. 
As a discontented friend, grief -shot 
With his unkindness. Shot., Cor., v. 1. 
[< grief + -ly'*.'] Grievously. 
Pierced with grief; 
Cross Crosslet on 
Grieces. 
gliegot, n. Same as grego. 
grien (gren), v. i. A Scotch spelling of green 3 . 
grieshoch (gre'shoch), n. [So., < Gael, griosach. 
hot embers, a hot battle, a volley, < grios, heat.] 
Hot embers, properly those of peat or moss- 
fuel ; also, a peat-fire. Also spelled greeshoch. 
Gang a' to your heds, sirs, and dlnna put ont the wee 
grieshoch. Border Minstrelsy, I. cii., Int. 
griesingt, n. See greesing. 
grievablet (gre'va-bl), a. [< ME. grevable, < 
OF. grevable, grievous, < grever, grieve: see 
grieve 1 and -ofete.] Causing grief; lamentable. 
There is a vice full greuable 
To hym whiche is tnerof culpable. 
Qovxr, Conf. Amant., v. 
grievance (gre'vans), . [Early mod. E. also 
greevance; < ME. grevaunce, grevance, < OF. 
grerance, grievance, grivance (= Pr. grevansa), 
injury, wrong, grievance, < grevant, injurious, 
oppressive, ppr. of grever, grieve, afflict: see 
grieve*.'} 1. Acauseof grief ordistress; a wrong 
inflicted by another or others ; a source or oc- 
casion of annoyance or hardship. 
They undid nothing in the State but Irregular and 
grinding Courts, the maine greevances to be remov'd. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, v. 
They [scorners] were a great and particular grievance to 
the followers of true piety and wisdom. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. v. 
The grievances which had produced the rebellions of 
Tyler and Cade had disappeared. 
Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
A grievance that has created much resentment is the 
needless appropriation of private lands, and the injury to 
adjacent lands oy various forms of public works. 
A'. /. Rev., CXXXIX. 106. 
2f. Grief; affliction. 
Madam, I pity much yonr grievances. 
Skat., T. G. of V., iv. 3. 
3f. Discomfort; pain. 
Than he set t e hym on his knees, holding vp his hondes, 
and than toke oute the suerde lightly with-oute gre- 
uaunce, and so bar it vp right Merlin (E. E. T. S.\ i. 107. 
grievancert (gre'van-ser), n. One who inflicts 
a grievance; one who gives cause for com- 
plaint. 
Some petition . . . against the bishops as griemncers. 
Fuller. 
grieve 1 (grev), v. ; pret. and pp. grieved, ppr. 
grieving. [Early mod. E. also greeve; < ME. 
greven, < OF. grever, graver, F. grever = Pr. gre- 
var, gravar, greviar = Sp. Pg. gravar = It. gra- 
vare, < L. gravare, burden, oppress, afflict, 
grieve, deponent gravari, feel vexed, annoyed. 
troubled, < gravte, heavy: see grief, grave 3 , and 
cf. gredge, aggredge, aggrieve, aggravate.] I. 
trans. 1. To inflict mental pain or distress 
upon; cause to suffer; make sorrowful; afflict; 
aggrieve. 
He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of 
men. Lam. iii. 33. 
There she saw a grieved ghost 
Comin waukin o'er the wa'. 
Cleric Saunderi (Child's Ballads, II. 323). 
griff 
They that judge themselves martyrs when they are 
grieved, should think withal what they are whom they 
grieve. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iv. 10. 
2f. To vex; harass; oppress. 
And because thei ben so trewe and so rightfulle and so 
fulle of alle gode condiciouns, thei weren nevere greved 
with Tempestes ne with Thondre ne with Leyt ne with 
Hayl ne with Pestylence. Mandeville, Travels, p. 292. 
And [he] assembled vj' men defensable, and moche 
thei greved the hethen peple with alle theire power. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.X ii. 186. 
Yet in suche fere yf that ye were, 
Amonge enemys day and nyght ; 
I wolde wythstonde, with bowe in hande. 
To greeve them as I myght 
The Kutbrowne Maide (Child's Ballads, IV. 150). 
3. To sorrow over; deplore; lament. [Rare.] 
Most miserable men ! I grieve their fortunes. 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, i. 2. 
'Till from the Parian Isle, and Libya's Coast, 
The Mountains grieve their Hopes of Marble lost 
Prior, Solomon, ii 
II. intrans. To feel grief; be in mental dis- 
tress; sorrow; mourn: usually followed by a t, 
for, about, or over. 
And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, 
Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, 
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, 
Over the unreturning brave. 
Byron, Childe Harold, Hi. 27. 
I grime that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me 
one step into real nature. Emerson, Experience. 
=Syn. Mourn, etc. See lament, v. i. 
grieve 2 , . Another spelling of greeve 1 . 
griever (gre'ver), n. One who or that which 
grieves or laments. 
Nor should romantic grievers thus complain, 
Although but little in the world they gain. Crabbe. 
grievingly (gre'ving-li), adv. With grief; sor- 
rowfully. 
Orievingly I think, 
The peace between the French and us not values 
The cost that did conclude it. Shale., Hen. VIII., L 1. 
grievous (gre'vus), a. [< ME. grevous, < OF. 
grevos, grevus, grevous = Sp. Pg. It. gravoso, 
grievous, < ML. gravosiis, also graviosus, equiv. 
to L. gratis, heavy, grievous: see grave 3 and 
grief, n., grieve*, v. Cf. gravous.~\ 1. Causing 
grief or sorrow; afflictive; hard to bear; op- 
pressive. 
And they bynde heuy burthens & greuons to be borne, 
<V ley them on mennes shoulders. 
Bible 0/1551, Mat xxiii. 4. 
My memory faileth me, by meanes of my great and gree- 
tious troubles. Webbe, Travels (ed. Arber), Epistle, p. 13. 
The first Tax he [William I.) laid upon his Subjects was 
in the first Year of his Reign, after his return out of Nor- 
mandy : a yrirrous Tax, all Writers say, but none what it 
was. Baker, Chronicles, p. 26. 
2. Inflicting or capable of inflicting pain or 
suffering ; distressing in act or use ; fierce ; sav- 
age. [Rare.] 
In their room, as they forewarn, 
Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves. 
Milton, P. L., xii. 508. 
When he arose, lie getteth him a grievous crab-tree cad- 
gel, and goes down into the dungeon to them. 
Bunt/an, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 174. 
3. Atrocious ; heinous ; aggravated. 
It was a grievous fault ; 
And grievously hath Ctesar answer'd it 
Shot., J. C., iii. 2. 
4. Expressing grief or affliction ; full of grief: 
as, a grievous cry. 
This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians. 
Gen. L 1L 
The grieuous complaynts of our liege subjects concern- 
ing trafflque, as it were circular wise too & fro both our 
dominions. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 159. 
Grievous bodily harm, in crim, law, serious but not 
necessarily permanent injury of the person. = Syn. 1. Dis- 
tressing, sad, lamentable, deplorable, injurious, baneful, 
calamitous. 
grievously (gre'vus-li), adv. [< ME. grevously, 
grevusly, grevosly ; < grievous + -ly' 2 .~\ In a 
grievous or afflictive manner; painfully; ca- 
lamitously. 
Min herte is troubled with this sorwe so grevousln that 
I not what to don. Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. 
grievousness (gre'vus-nes), n. [< ME. grevous- 
iic.--.vr; < t/rierrnis + -ness.~] The condition or 
quality of being grievous or deplorable ; afflic- 
tion; injuriousness ; atrocity; enormity. 
In the same sermon the grievousness of the offence is to 
be opened. Strypr, Grindal, ii. 11. 
griff 1 ! (grif), H. [< OF. griffe, F. griffe, a claw, 
nail, taloc, < griffer, gripe, grasp, seize, catch, 
< OHG. grifan, MHG. qrifen, G. greifen, gripe, 
grip (> G. 'griff = E. g'ripl, hold,'handle, hilt), 
= E. gripe*, q. v.] Gripe; grasp; reach. 
A vein of gold within our spade's ijriff. Holland, 
