gripe 
Fired with this thought, at once he strained the breast; 
'Tis true, the hardened breast resists the gripe. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Pygmalion and the Statue, 1. 25. 
2f. A handful. 
A gripe of corne in reaping, or so much hay or corne as 
one with a pitchforke or hooke can take up at a time. 
Baret, 1580. (llalliwdl.) 
3. Forcible retention ; bondage : 
a tyrant or a usurer ; the gripe o 
Those 
That fear the law, or stand withiu her gripe, 
For any act past or to come. 
B. Jonson, Catiline, i. 1. 
There are few who have fallen into the Gripes of the 
Inquisition, do scape the Rack. Howell, Letters, I. v. 42. 
4. In pathol., an intermittent spasmodic pain 
in the intestines, as in colic; cramp-colic; 
cramps: usually in the plural. 
And yet more violently tortured with inward convul- 
sions, and euill gripes, then by outward disease, or for- 
raine hostilitie. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 156. 
5. Something used to clutch, seize, or hold a 
thing; aclaworgrip. Specifically 6. Apitch- 
fork; a dung-fork. [Prov. Eng.] 7. Naut.: 
(a) The forefoot, orpiece of timber which termi- 
nates the keel at the fore end. See cut under 
stem. 
This day by misfortune a piece of ice stroke of our 
i/reepe afore at two aforenoone, yet for all this we turned 
to doe oui' best. Uaklmjt's Voyages, I. 449. 
(ft) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stem 
under water, chiefly toward the bottom of the 
stem. 8. Naut.: (a) pi. Lashings for boats, 
to secure them in their places at sea, whether 
hanging at the davits or stowed on deck, (b) 
One of two bands by which a boat is prevented 
from swinging about when suspended from the 
davits. 9. A small boat. [Obsolete or prov. 
Eng.] 
Within a small time he brought ftfteene vessels called 
Gripes, laden with wine, and with them men of warre. 
Uakluyt's Voyages, II. 7"'. 
10f. A miser. 
Let him be a bawd, a gripe, an usurer, a villain. 
Burton. 
gripe 2 (grip), B. [See </n> 2 .] A ditch or trench : 
same as grip 2 , 1. 
A man comfortably dressed lay flat on his back in the 
gripe. Trench. 
Up and down in that meadow . . . did Tom and the 
trembling youth beat like a brace of pointer dogs, stum- 
bling into gripes and over sleeping cows. 
Kingsley, Two Years Ago, xxv. 
gripe 2 (grip), v. t. ; pret. and pp. griped, ppr. 
griping. Same as grip 2 . 
gripe 3 ! (grip), n. [< ME. gripe, grip, grype, gryp 
(the alleged AS. "gripe not found) = D. grijp 
= MLG. grip = OHG. grif, grtfo, MHG. grife, G. 
greif, a griffin (cf . D. grijpvogel, vogel-griip, LG. 
vogel-grip, a vulture, G. greij geier, a condor), = 
Icel. gripr = Sw. grip, a vulture, = Dan. grib, 
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derivation < LL. gryphus, ML. often spelled 
griphus, a griffin, + Gr. aavpof, a lizard.] The 
feneric name given by Andreas Wagner in 
861 (Griphosaurus problematicus) to the sec- 
ond specimen of the fossil reptilian bird now 
known as the Archaiopteryx macrura. See Ar- 
chaiopteryx. Also written Gryphosaurus. 
gripingly (gri'ping-li), adv. In a griping or 
constraining manner ; with a griping pain, 
griplet, a. See gripple*. 
griplenesst, n. See gnppleness. 
gripman (grip'man), . ; pi. gripmen (-men). 
A man who works the grip on a cable-railroad. 
The driver, or grip-man, then opened the valve admit- 
ting air to the engine. Science, VIII. 275. 
grippalt, a. Another spelling of gripple*. 
grippe (grip), n. [F., lit. a seizure, < gripper, 
seize: KG grip*, gripe*.] Epidemic influenza. 
gripper (grip'er), n. One who or that which 
grips, grasps, or seizes. Specifically (o) A process- 
server or sheriff's officer ; a bailiff. [Ireland.] (b) In 
printing, a curved iron clasp, usually one of four or more, 
which grips the edge of a sheet of paper, and retains it in 
position while going through the press, (c) A contrivance 
fixed to a mail-car, or to a crane alongside a railroad- 
track, for seizing a mail-bag automatically while the car 
is in motion. [U. S.] 
On each carriage 112 to 224 iron tongs or yrippers are 
placed at regular distances from each other. 
Sci. Amer. Supp., p. 8824. 
At the same time a pouch [mail-bag] is taken from the 
crane by the gripper on the car, a pouch is taken from the 
car by the gripper on the crane. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LIV. 106. 
(d) A device for holding the carbon of an arc-lamp and as- 
sisting in the regulation of its movements. 
The actual work of liberating the catch or the gripper, 
and feeding the carbon, is effected by gravity. 
Dredge's Electric Illumination, I. 383. 
grippie, a. and n. See grippy. 
. Avarice; greed. 
Another with a logick-flsted grivpingness catches at 
and grasps all he can come within the reach of. 
Rennet, tr. of Erasmus's Praise of Folly, p. 87. 
gripping-wheel (grip'ing-hwel), w. A wheel 
for gripping or seizing, as one of a pair of 
wheels for seizing a central rail in some forms 
of railway; a friction-wheel. 
The plan proposed to insure tractive power by means of a 
pair of horizontal gripping wheels was originallydevised by 
Vignoles and Ericsson. Jour. Franklin Inst., CXXI. 266. 
gripple 1 (grip'i), a. [Formerly also griple, grip- 
pal; < ME. gripel, grasping, greedy, < AS. gri- 
pitl, grasping, < gripan, pp. gripen, gripe, grasp, 
seize: see gripe*.] 1. Griping; tenacious. 
The salvage nation doth all dread despize, 
Tho on his shield he griple hold did lay. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. iv. 6. 
That fatal tool she lent 
By which th' insatiate slave her entrails out doth draw, 
That thrusts his gripple hand into her golden maw. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, I. 106. 
LL. gryphus, ML. also griphus, grifus, etc., a 
griffin, vulture: see griffin.'] 1. A griffin. 
The gripe also biside the bere. 
No beest wolde to othere dere. 
Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab., f. 5. (HalliweU.) 
2. A vulture. [Cf. griffin, I, 2.] 
Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws. 
Lucrece, 1. 543. 
V., + obj. all.] 
gripe-all (grip'al), n. [< gripe* 
A miser. [Rare.] 
The truth is, Lamb . . . could feel, pro tempore, what 
belonged to the character of a gripe-all. 
The New Mirror (New York), 1843. 
gripeful (grip'ful), a. [< gripe* + -ful.] Dis- 
posed to gripe. [Bare.] 
gripelt, a. See gripple. 
gripe-penny (grip'pen"i), . [< gripe*, v., + 
obj. penny. Cf. equiv. F. grippe-sou.] A nig- 
gard ; a miser. Mackenzie. 
griper (gri'per), n. 1. One who or that which 
gripes; an extortioner. 2f. A Thames collier 
or coal-barge. 
There be also certain colliers that bring coles to London 
by water in barges, and they be called gripers. 
Greene, Disc, of Coosnage. 
gripe's-eggt (gi-Ips'eg), n. An egg-shaped ves- 
sel used by alchemists. 
Let the water in glass E be filtered, 
And put into the gripe's egg. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. 
grip-grass (grip'gras), n. Cleavers, Galium Apa- 
rine. 
Griphosaurus (grif-o-sa'rus), n. [NL., < Gr. 
ypi^of, anything intricate, a riddle, lit. a fish- 
ing-basket, a creel, + aavpof, a lizard. The later 
occasional spelling Gryphosaurus simulates a 
This gripple miser, this uncivil wretch, 
Will, for this little that I am indebted, 
Unchristianly imprison you and me. 
Webster (and Dekkert\ Weakest Goeth to the Wall, ii. 3. 
Naebody wad be sae gripple as to take his gear. 
Scott, Waverley, Ixvii. 
gripple 1 !, v. t. [Freq. of grip*, gripe*, scarcely 
used. Cf. gripple 1 , a. and n.] To grasp. 
Well griple in his hand. 
Topsell, Beasts, p. 213. (Halliwell.) 
gripple 1 ! (grip'i), n. [Perhaps only in Spenser; 
< gripple 1 , v., freq. form of grip 1 , gripe 1 . Cf. 
gripple 1 , a.] A grip ; a grasp. 
Ne ever Artegall his griple strong 
For anything wold slacke, but still upon him hong. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 14. 
gripple 2 !, . [ME. gryppel (= LG. griippel); 
dim. of grip 2 , q. v.] A ditch; a drain. 
Gryppe, or gryppel, where water rennythe away in a 
londe, a water forowe, aratiuncula. Prompt. Pare., p. 212. 
'le-minded! (grip'l-minMed), a. [< grip- 
, a., + mind + ,-ed 2 .] Of a greedy, grasp- 
ing, or miserly disposition. 
That a man of your estate should be so gripple-minded 
and repining at his wife's bounty ! 
Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life, i. 1. 
grippleness! (grip'1-nes), n. [Also gripleness; 
< gripple 1 , a., + -ntss.] The quality of being 
gripple ; grasping or avaricious disposition. 
The young man pretends it is for his wanton and inor- 
dinate lust ; the old, for his grippleness, techinesse, lo- 
quacity : all wrongfully, and not without foul abuse. 
Bp. Hall, Satan's Fiery Darts, ill. 
grip-pulley (grip'pul"i), n. A form of grip con- 
sisting of an application of the pulley, used on 
cable-railroads, etc. 
grise 
It was not until 1870 that the first patent for a grip-pul- 
ley was issued to Andrew S. Hallidie, of San Francisco. 
Apiiletoris Ann. Cyc., 1886, p. 122. 
grippy, grippie (grip'i), a. [< grip 1 + -y*. Cf. 
gnppie*, a.] Avaricious; grasping. [North. 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
grippy, grippie (grip'i), [Dim. of grip*.] A 
grip. [Scotch.] 
Though ye may think him a lamiter, yet, grippie for 
grippie, friend, I'll wad a wether he'll make the blude spin 
frae under your nails. Scott, Black Dwarf, xvli. 
gripsack (grip'sak), . [< grip* + sack.] A 
hand-satchel for a traveler; any valise or port- 
manteau usually carried in the hand. Also 
called grip. [Colloq., U. S.] 
Griq.ua (gre'kwa), n. One of a South African 
race of half-castes, resulting from the inter- 
course between the Dutch settlers and Hot- 
tentot and Bush women. They form a distinct com- 
munity in a region called Griqualand, now belonging to 
Great Britain, traversed by the Orange river, and includ- 
ing the African diamond-fields. Some of them are Chris- 
tians and considerably civilized, being successful agricul- 
turists and cattle-breeders. 
griqualandite (gre'kwa-land-It), n. [< Griqua- 
land (see def.) + -<te 2 .] A variety of the sili- 
cified crocidolite (tiger-eye) from Griqualand 
West, South Africa. 
gris 1 !, See grise'2. 
gris 2 !, a. and . See grise*. 
grisaille (gre-zal'), n. [F. ; < gris, gray: see 
grise*.] A system of painting in gray tints of 
various shades, produced by mixing white with 
black, used either simply for decoration, or to 
represent objects, etc., as if in relief ; also, a 
painting, a stained-glass window, etc., executed 
according to this method. See camaieu. 
Now the dome of St. Paul's had already been decorated 
with grisaille paintings by Wren's friend, Sir James Thorn- 
hill. The American, IX. 201. 
Grisaille decoration, a decoration in monochrome, in 
various tints of gray. It is a common decoration for walls, 
both exterior and interior, for pottery, for colored windows, 
etc. Compare monochrome, chiaroscuro, and camaieu. 
grisambert (gre-sam'ber), . [Transposed 
form of ambergris.] Ambergris Grisamber- 
steamed, flavored with the steam of melted ambergris. 
Beasts of chase, or fowl of game, 
In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd, 
Gnsamber-steam'd. Milton, P. K., ii. 344. 
grise 1 !, ?' [< ME. griseit (pret. grisede, also as a 
strong verb, pret. gros), also in comp. agrisen 
(pret. agros, agras, pp. agrisen, agrise), appar. 
< AS. 'grisan (pret. *grds, pp. * grif en), found 
only once, in comp. a-grisan, feel terror, = 
MLG. *grisen, grisen, gresen, feel terror; par- 
allel with these forms, with appar. root *gris, 
are other forms with the root *grus, namely, AS. 
"gredsan (pret. *greds, pi. *gruron, pp. *groren, 
found only in the comp. pp. begroren, terrified, 
and in the derived noun gryre, ME. gntre (= OS. 
gruri), terror, dread, whence gryrelic, ME. grure- 
ful, terrible, dreadful), with prob. a secondary 
form *grusian, whence ult. E. dial, growse, 
growze, Sc. groose, grooze, gruze, shiver ; = OHG. 
gruwison, gruison, MHG. griusen, grusen, G. grau- 
sen, cause to shudder, terrify (whence MHG. 
grus, G. graus, terror, dread, horror, MHG. gru- 
senlich, G. grauslich, horrible : see also grisly*) ; 
with verb-formative -s, from a simpler form 
seen in OHG. *gruen, in-gruen, shudder, MHG. 
gruicen, G. grauen, impers., dread, fear, = Dan. 
grue, shudder at, dread (>gru, horror, terror), > 
ME. (Sc.) grouen, growen, gryen, IE,, grue: see 
grue, gruesome. Hence ult. grisly 1 .] I. intrans. 
To be in terror; fear; tremble or shudder with 
fear. 
Oret tempest began to rise, 
That gert the shipmen sar grise. 
Metr. Homilies (ed. Small), p. 134. 
Thay simile in thare fleshe ryse 
That every man shalle whake [quake] and gryse 
Agans that ilk dome. Towneley Mysteries, p. 41. 
II. trans. To be in terror of; fear; dread. 
The olde dwelleris of thin holi lond, the whiche thou 
grisedist, for hateful werkis. Wydif, Wisdom xii. 4 (Oxf.). 
grise 2 (gris), n. [Also written griee; < ME. 
gris, grys, gryse, gryce, < Icel. griss', a young pig, 
= Sw. Dan. gris, a pig. The supposed connec- 
tion with Gr. xip (rig- *xP a S 1), a young 
pig, is doubtful. Dim. griskin, q. v.] 1. Apig; 
swine ; especially, a little pig. 
"Ich haue no peny," quath Peers, "polettes for to bigge 
[buy], 
Nother goos nother grys, bote two grene dieses, 
A fewe croddes and creyme, and a cake of otes." 
Piers Plowman (CX ix. 305. 
2. Specifically, in her., a young wild boar. 
The distinction between a grise and a boar cannot always 
be maintained in delineation. Compare eagle and eaglet. 
