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A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott.

See Gauntree.

Any tree or shrub of the genus Genipa.

An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America.

An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks de…

Green with grass.

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.

See Gree a step. [Obs.]

An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

, adv. In a greedy manner.

The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak.

r food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.

A glutton. [Low] Todd.

An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm. A greegree man, an African magician or fetich priest.

Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends. See under Calends. -- Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the…

Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows:

A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

A female Greek. [R.]

Peculiar to Greece.