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Indies the feeds grew very readily, wherever they meet 
with a fufficient quantity of moifture, and propagate fo 
thick, that the trees are always found formed into 
thickets or large clutters. 
GRIAZNU'CHA, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Saratov, on the Medveditza : forty miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Saratov. 
GRI AZ'OVETZ, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Vologda: forty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Vo¬ 
logda. Lat. 58. 36. N. Ion. 58. 30. E. Ferro. 
GRIBAL'DI (Matthew), furnamed Mofa, a learned 
jurift, born at Chieri in Piedmont. He opened a 
fchool of law at Padua in 1548, where he taught with 
great applaufe to a large number of auditors. But 
having imbibed the principles of the reformers, he was 
obliged, in 1553, to withdraw fecretly from that city. 
He wandered about for fome time, and in 1555_ was in¬ 
troduced to Calvin in Geneva; but, as he had incurred 
fufpicion of being addicted to the opinions of the Uni¬ 
tarians, that reformer refufed to give him the hand of 
fellowlhip till he had cleared himfelf in that particular. 
Gribaldi refufed to give him this fatisfaftion, where¬ 
fore he was ordered to depart from the city; and the 
recent fate of Servetus was a fufficient admonition for 
him not to delay. He was received at Tubingen 
through the means of Vergerius, and for fome time oc¬ 
cupied the chair of law in that univerfity, till impend¬ 
ing perfecution obliged him to quit it. He then re¬ 
paired to Bern, in the neighbourhood of which he pur- 
chafed an eftate, with the intention of fpending his days 
there. But, being cited before the magiftrates to an- 
fwer for the herefies imputed to him, he was obliged to 
retradf, in order to gain his liberty. The fincerity of 
this retradfion was doubted, fince he afforded a retreat 
in his houfe to the perfecuted Gentilis ; and he would 
again have been molefted, had he not been carried off 
by the plague in 1564. Gribaldi was accounted very 
eminent in his profeflion, and a friend of juitice and 
equity. He wrote commentaries on the pandedts, and 
other parts of the civil law. 
GRIB'NER (Michael Henry), a learned civilian of 
Germany, born at Leipfic in 1682. He was firfl made 
profelfor of law at Wirtemberg: whence he palled to 
Drefden, and was finally recalled to Leipfic to fucceed 
M. Mencke. He died in 1734. Befides feveral acade¬ 
mical dilfertations, he wrote, 1. Principia procejfus judi- 
ciarii ; 2. Principia jurifprudentia naturalis, a final 1 work 
much efleemed ; 3. Opufcula juris pub/ici et privati. 
GRICA'NE, a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Moldavia : twenty miles north of Jafli. 
GRICE,y. A little pig. Gouldman. —A ftep or grecze. 
—No, not a grice, this a ftep to love. Shakefpeare. 
GRI CHE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Se- 
geflan : 140 miles eaft-north-eaft of Zareng. 
To GRIDE, v.n. {gridare, Italian.] To cut; to 
make way by cutting. A word elegant, but not in ufe : 
His poignant fpear he thruft with puifTant fway, 
That through his thigh the mortal fteel did gride. Spenf. 
GRID<ELIN, adj. A colour mixed of white and red: 
The ladies drefs’d in rich fymars were feen. 
Of Florence fatten, flower’d with white and green. 
And for a fhade betwixt the bloomy griddin. Dryden. 
GRID'IRON, f. [from grind, Iflandic. ] A portable 
grate on which meat is laid to be broiled upon the fire. 
—He added two bars to the gridiron. SpeElator. 
GRIEF,y.[from grieve ; griff', Wellh, probably from 
the Englilh.] Sorrow; trouble for foinething part.— 
Wringing of the hands, knocking the breaft, are but the 
ceremonies of forrow, the pomp and oftentation of an 
effeminate grief, which fpeak not fo much the greatnefs 
of the mifery as the fmallnefs of the mind. South. 
I will inftrtuft my forrows to be proud : 
For grief is ^roud, and makes his owner flout. Shake/. 
g n 1 
Grievance; harm. {Grief, Fr.] Not in ufe: 
Be faftious for redrefs of all thefe griefs. 
And I will fet this foot of mine as far 
As who goes fartheft.- Shakejpeai’t, 
Pain ; difeafe. Obfolete. 
GRIEF'-FULL, adj. Full of grief: 
Which when fhe fees with ghaftly grief-full eyes 
Her heart does quake. Spenfer, 
GRIEF-SHOT', part. adj. Pierced with grief: 
But as a difiontented friend, grief/hot 
With his unkindnefs. Shakefpeare. 
GRIE'LUM, y. In botany, a genus of the clafs de- 
candria, order pentagynia, in the natural order of gnu 
inales. The generic charaftersare—Calyx : perianthi- 
um one-leafed, fpreading, deeply five-cleft, flat at the 
bafe, fliarp, equal, permanent. Corolla: petals five, 
fpreading, large, obovate, feflile, tapering at the bafe. 
Nectaries oblong glands, placed round the germ, and 
united fo as to form a crown. Stamina: filaments ten, 
filiform, fomewhat rigid, equal, permanent, the length 
of the calyx ; antherae ovate-oblong, upright. Piftil- 
lum: germ five, diftinCl, awl-fhaped, upright, fhorter 
than the ftamens. Styles none, (five, Gartner ;) ftigmas 
waned. Pericarpium : five, oblong, acuminate, hard. 
(Capfule formed from the calyx hardened, round, flat¬ 
ted, five or ten celled; G.) Seeds: folitary, oblong.— 
Effential CharaEler. Calyx five-cleft; petioles five ; fila¬ 
ments permanent; pericarpium five, with one feed in 
each. 
Grielum tenuifolium, a Angle fpecies. The petals 
are* blue, with livid-vellow claws. Capfule inferior, 
with the calyx clofely adhering and ferving as a bark to 
it at bottom, flattifh at top, and furrounded with a ring 
of hard bony tubercles, within which it is crowned with 
the permanent filaments and ftyles; it has ten cells, but 
no valves: to each ftyle there are two cells, but all of 
them are placed in a ring regularly round the axis of 
the fruit, and deeply immerled in the fubftance of the 
calyx. There is no receptacle, but the feeds are flxecf 
to the tip of the cells, one only in each; the form is el¬ 
liptic, beaked at top, plano-convex, or flatted lens- 
fhaped, of a reddifh cheftnut colour. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
GRIEM'BACH, a town of Germany, in the archdu¬ 
chy of Auftria: two miles north-eaft of Freyftatt. 
GRIE'NAW, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria: fix miles eaft-north-eaft of Steyregg. 
GRIEN'BURG, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria: four miles north-north-weft of Windifch 
Weiftritz. 
GRIEN'PACH, a town of Germany, in the archdu¬ 
chy of Auftria: three miles north-eaft of Bohmifch 
Waidthofen. 
GRIENPI'HEL, a citadel of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria, Atuated on a mountain : two miles north of 
Rottenmann. 
GRIES'BACH, or Griesfach, a town of Germa¬ 
ny, in the circle of Lower Bavaria: fourteen miles weft 
of Paflau. 
GRIES'KIRCHEN, a town of Germany, in the 
archduchy of Auftria: fix miles fouth-weft of Effer- 
ding, and 104 weft of Vienna. 
GRIESS'WALDE, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, in Anterior Pomerania : twenty-four 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Stralfund, andfixty north-weft 
of New Stettin. -Lat.54.4. N. Ion. 31.4. E. Ferro. 
GRIET, a town of Germany, in the circle of Well, 
phalia, and duchy of Cleves : four miles eaftof Cleves. 
GRIET'HAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Weftphalia, and duchy of Cleves : three miles north- 
eaft of Cleves. 
GRIE'VANCE, f. A ftate of uneafinefs. Out of ufe. 
The 
