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which we call the molar-teeth, or grinders 5 and pointed 
teeth, or canine, which are between both. Bacon. 
He the raging lionefs confounds, 
The roaring lion with his javelin wounds, 
■Scatters their whelps, their grinders breaks; fo they 
With the old hunter darve for want of prey. Sandys. 
The teeth, in irony or contempt : 
One, who at the fight of fupper open’d wide 
His jaws before, and whetted grinders try’d. Dry den. 
GRIN'DER’s ROT, f. A difeafe of the lungs to 
which feythe-grinders are. fubjeCl, from an accumulation 
of particles of fand mixed with iron-dud. The difor- 
der is among themfelves Called by this name. 
GRIND'ING,y. [from the terb.~\ The a6l of (harp- 
ening an edged tool by friction ; the aCt of rubbing- 
one thing againd another. Oppreflion. 
GRIN'DLESTONE, or Grindstone, f . The (lone 
on which edged instruments are Sharpened.—Literature 
is the grindjfone to fliarpen the coulters, and to whet 
their natural faculties. Hammond. 
Such a light and metall’d dance 
Saw you never yet in France ; 
And by the lead-men, for the nonce. 
That turn round like grindlejlones. Ben Jonfon. 
GRIN'DON R 1 GG, a village in the county of Nortli- 
-umberland, remarkable for a battle fought tlrere in 1558, 
in whicli the Scots were defeated by the earl of North¬ 
umberland and his brother: nine miles north of-iVoolley. 
GRIN'NER,yi One that grins. 
GRIN'NING, f . [from the verb .] The acl of fetting 
the teeth as in anger ; derifion expreffed by a grin. 
GRIN'NINGLY, ado. With a grinning laugh. 
GRIN'STEAD, or East-Grinstead, a town in 
the county of Suflex, and a borough by prefeription, of 
great antiquity, confiding of a bailiff and about thirty- 
five burgage-holders, who eleCt two members of par¬ 
liament. The bailiff is the returning-officer, and is 
chofen by the burgage-holders, at the annual court of 
the lord of the borough, who is the duke of Dorfet. 
The fird return of this borough is anno x Edward II. 
The town is pleafantly fituated on a hill, near the bor¬ 
ders of Surrey, thirty miles from London, commanding 
a beautiful profpeft every way around. The parifli is 
one of the larged in the county; it had a large hand¬ 
some church, the fpire of which was dedroyed by light¬ 
ning in 1685 : a very beautiful lofty tower was then 
built, but, owing to the badnefs of the materials and 
the manner of building it, on November 12, 1785, hav¬ 
ing flood jud one hundred years, it fell on the body of 
the church, and damaged it in fuch a manner that the 
whole was obliged to be taken down and rebuilt on a 
fmaller feale. The Lent affizes for Suffex were long 
holden here ; but for the greater accommodation of the 
county, they have for Come years pad beeirremoved to 
Horfham, where the county gaol is fituated. Here is a 
weekly corn-market on Thurfdays; and three annual 
fairs, namely, April 21, July 13, aftd December 11; 
the fird and lad of which are large fairs for all kinds of 
cattle. There ar-e alfo two fairs at Fored-Row-, in this 
pariffi, about three miles from the town, viz. June 25 and 
November 8 ; the latter is for cattle, pedlars’ ware, &rc. 
At the ead end of the town is a large handfome done 
building, eredted in-the form of a Square,.called Sack- 
ville College, founded! by James Sackville, earl of Dor¬ 
fet, in'the reign of James I. about the year 1616 : he 
endowed it with 330I. a-year. Here twenty-four aged 
perfons of both fexes are accommodated each with a 
comfortable room, and an allowance of eight pounds 
per annum to each perfon. This college is governed 
by a warden and two gentlemen-affidants. There is a 
very neat, chapel for the ufe of the penfioners, where 
the warden reads prayers every morning; and which 
was ufed for divine fervice while the parifE-church was 
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rebuilding. Here is a charity-fchool for twelve boys, 
founded by Robert and Edward-Payne, efqs. in 1768. 
The town is a great thoroughfare, being the dire,Ci 
pod-road from London to Ead Bourn, Lewes, and 
Brighthelmdone. 
GRIP, or Gripe, f . [jgttep, Sax. ] A little ditch or 
trench. 
To GRIPE, v. a. [ griepan , Goth. gpipon,,Sax. grij- 
pen, Duty gripp, Scot.] To hold with the fingers doled; 
to grafp ; to prefs with the fingers : 
He that fpeaks doth gripe the hearer’s wrid, 
Whild he that hears makes fearful aCtion 
With wrinkled brows. Shakefpearc . 
To hold hard : 
He Seiz’d the lhining bough with griping hold. 
And rent away with eafe the ling’ring gold. Dry den, 
[ Gripper , Fr.] To catch eagerly ; to feize : 
You took occafion to be quickly woo’d, 
To gripe the gen’ral fway into your hands. Shakefpearc , 
To clofe ; to clutch : 
Unlucky Welded ! thy unfeeling mader, 
The more thou tickled, gnpeshis hand the fader. Pope « 
To pitch ; to prefs; to Squeeze : 
A wondrous way it for this lady wrought, 
From lion’s claws to pluck the griped prey. Spenfcr, 
To give a pain in the bowels: 
Thus full of counfel to the den (he went. 
Grip'd all the way, and longing for a vent. Dryden. 
To GRIPE, v. n. To feel the colic ; to have the 
belly-ach.—Many people would, with reafon, prefer 
the griping of an hungry belly to thofe diffies which 
are a fead to others. Locke .—To pinch; to catch at 
money meanly.—Flis mean revenue, by being Scattered, 
in the word of times growing upon him, when others 
that had great ones, by griping, made them lefs. Fell. 
GRIPE, f . Grafp; hold; Seizure of the hand or 
paw.—They put a barren feeptre in my gripe. Shakefpcarc. 
I fell; and with my weight the helm, condrain’d, 
Was drawn along, which yet my gripe retain’d. Dryden « 
Squeeze; preffure: 
’Tis true, the harden’d bread refids the gripe, 
And the cold lips return a kifs unripe. Dryden ♦ 
Oppreffion ; crulhing power: 
I take my caufe 
Out of th z gripes of cruel men, and give it 
To a mod noble judge, the king my matter. Shakefpearc , 
Affliction; pinching didrefs: 
Can’d thou bear cold and hunger ? Can thefe limbs, . 
Fram’d for the tender offices of love, 
Endure the bitter gripes of Smarting poverty -? Otway . 
An old name for a vulture: 
Titius hath his lot 
To feed the gripe that gnaws his growing heart. 
Tanc. and Sigifm . 
.[In the plural.] Belly-ach: colic.—In the jaundice 
the choler is wanting ; and the iCterical have a great 
fournefs and gripes, with windinefs. Floyer. 
GRIPE-STICK, f. In furgery, a kind of indrument 
ufed in the amputation of an arm. Scott. 
GRI'PER, f. Opprefior; ufurer; extortioner.— 
Others pretend zeal, and yet are profefled ufurersy 
gripers , monders of men, and harpies. Burton. 
GRI'PERSLEBEN, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of the Lower Rhine, and territory of Erfurt: three 
miles north of Erfurt. 
GRIPH,/. A riddle. Obfolete. 
GRI'PING. f. [from the verb.l The abt of holding 
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