813 
G R E 
GREA'SY, adj. Oily j fat ; uikSIuous : 
The fragments, Icraps, tlie bits and greafy reliqties, 
Of her o’ereaten faith. Shakefpeare, 
Smeared with greafe.—Buy flieep, and fee that they be 
big-boned, and have a foft, greedy, well curled, clofc, 
wool. Mortimer. —Fat of body; bulky: in reproach.— 
Let’s confult together againft this greafy knight. 
Shakefpeare. 
GREAT, adj. [jyie r, Sax. groot, Dut.] Large 
in bulk or number.—Judas one of the twelve came, 
and with him great iiuiliitude with fwords and (laves. 
Mat. XXvi. 
A dungeon horrible, on all Tides round. 
As one great furnace flam’d. Milton, 
Having any quality in a high degree.—There were rhey 
in great fear. Pf. xiv. 5.— Great triumph and rejoicing 
W'as in heav’n. Milton. 
Charms fuch as thine, inimitably 
He only could exprefs. Broome. 
Having number or bulk, relative or comparative.—The 
idea of fo much is pofitive and clear : the idea, of greater 
is alfo clear, but it is but a comparative idea. Locke. — 
Confiderable in extent or duration.—Thou haft fpokeii 
of thy fervant’s houfe for a great while to come. 2 Sam, 
vri. 19.—.Important; weighty.—Though this hea great 
truth, if it be impartially coufidered, yet it is allba 
great paradox to men of corrupt minds and vucious 
prailices. Tillotfon. 
What is low raife and fupport. 
That to the height of thisjjrfat argument 
I may aflert eternal Providence, 
And vindicate the ways of God to man. Milton. 
Chief; principal; 
Hear the king’s pleafure, cardinal, who commands you 
To render up the great feal. Shakefpeare. 
Venerable; adorable; awful: 
Thou firft art wont God’s great authentic W'ill, 
Interpreter, through higheft heav’n to bring. Milton. 
Wonderful ; marvellous.— Great things and full of won¬ 
der. Milton. —Of high rank; of large power; 
Of all the great, how few 
Are juft to heav’n, and to their promife true! Pope. 
Misfortune made the throne her feat. 
And none could be unhappy but the great. Rowe, 
General; extenfive in confequence or influence : 
Prolific humour foft’ning all her globe, 
Fermented the ^reat mother to conceive. Milton. 
Illuftrious ; eminent ; noble ; excellent.—O Lord, thou 
art great, and thy name is great in might. Jer. x. 6. 
Great are thy works Jehovah, infinite 
Thy pow’r ! what thought can mealure thee, or tongue 
Relate thee ! greater now in thy return. 
Than from the giant angels : thee that day 
Thy thunders magnified, but to create 
Is greater than created to deftroy. Milton, 
Grand of afpedl; of elevated mien: 
Such Dido was ; with fuch becoming (late, 
Amidft the crowd, (lie walks ferenely great. Dryden. 
Magnanimous; generous; high-minded.—In her every 
thing was goodly and (lately ; yet lo, that it might feem 
that grear-mindednefs was but the ancient-bearer to 
the humblenefs. Sidney. —Opulent; fumptuous; mag¬ 
nificent ; 
Not Babylon, 
Nor great Alcairo, fuch magnificence 
Equall’d in all tiieir glories. Milton, 
VoL. VIII. No. 546. 
G R E 
Intelleclually great; fublime : 
This new-created world, how good, how fair, 
Anfwering his great idea! Milton. 
Swelling; proud.—Solyman perceived that Vienna was 
not to be won vvitli words, nor the defendants to be dT- 
couraged with grreat looks. Knollcs. —Familiar ; much 
acquainted. A low word .—Thofe that would not cen- 
fure, or fpeak ill of a man immediately, will talk more 
boldly of thofe that are great with them. Bacon .—Preg¬ 
nant ; teeming : 
Their bellies great 
M^ith fvyelling vanity, bring forth deceit. Sandys, 
This fly, for mod he flings in heat of day, 
From cattle great with young keep thou aw'ay. May, 
It is added in every ftep of afeending or delcending 
confanguinity ; great grand (on is the fon of the grand- 
fon.—I dare not yet affirm for the antiquity of our lan¬ 
guage, that ou: great-great-great grandfiies tongue came 
out of Perfia. Camden. —Hard ; difficult : grievous. A 
proverbial expreflion.—It is no great matter to live lov¬ 
ingly with good-natured and meek perfbns. Taylor. 
GREAl , yi The wliole ; the grofs ; the whole in a 
lump.—Carpenters build an houfe by the great, and are 
agieed for the (urn of money. Moxon. 
To let out thy harveft by great or by day, 
Let this by experience lead thee the way : 
By great will deceive thee with ling’ring it out. Tujjer, 
GREAT, a river of Canada, which runs into the 
river St. Laurence : feven leagues below Quebec. 
_ GREAT BAR'RINGTON, a townffiip of the Arne, 
rican States, in the fouth-weftern part of the State of 
Maflachufetts, in Berkfhire county, lying fouth of 
Stockbridge, 150 miles weft of Bofton, and twenty-fix 
eaft-by-fouth of Hudfon city, New-York. 
GREAT BAY', a bay of North America, at the 
mouth of the Pifeataqua river, between Portfmouth and 
Exeter, in the (late of New Hampfhire. 
GREAT BEAR', one of the conftellations in the 
northern hemifphere. See Ursa Major. 
GREAT BEAR LA'KE, a water which runs weft- 
ward, and flows into-M'Kenzie’s river in the north- 
weft part of North America ; not far from the arftic 
circle. Its mouth is 250 yards wide. 
GREAT BRI'TAIN, the larged, richeft, and mod 
populous, ifland in Europe, comprehending South and 
North Britain, now called England and Scotland, with 
the principality of Wales ; extending from the Lizard 
point, in north latitude 50°, to Dung(by-head, in north 
latitude 58® 30' nearly. Its form approaches fomewhat 
to the (liape of an irregular triangle, the extremities of 
which are terminated by three promontories, projeCling 
in ditt'erent direblions, viz. the Land’s End, in Corn¬ 
wall, towards the weft ; the North Foreland, in Kent, 
towards the eaft ; and Dung(by-head, in Caithnefs, to¬ 
wards the north; and the circuit of its three fidcs, al¬ 
lowing for the windings of the coaft, contains, by a gene¬ 
ral eftimate, about 1800 miles ; but, if it were a perfect 
triangle, the length of its three Tides would meadire 
about 1520 BritKh miles. It is bounded on the north 
by the Northern Ocean ; on the weft by the Atlantic 
and the Irifh Sea, which feparates it from Ireland; on 
the fouth by the Britifli Channel, which divides it from 
France; and on the eaft, towards Germany, by the 
North Sea and German Ocean. 
It has been alferted, that Great Britain, in times of 
remote antiquity, vvas united with the continent. The 
entire feparation of Great Britain from the continent 
mud have happened, according to the conjethires of 
Mr. Kirwan, as dated in the Irifli 1 ranf. vol.vi. p, 301, 
long after the deluge; and that of Ireland from Great 
Britain at a dill later period : for wolves and bears were 
9 X anciently 
