GREE

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably. [Obs.] Chaucer. Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke. Fairfax.

2.
n.

Rank; degree; position. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer. He is a shepherd great in gree. Spnser.

3.
n.

The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.

4.
v.

To agree. [Obs.] Fuller.

5.
n.

A step.

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