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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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GRECIZE; GRECIANIZE v.

To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.

Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman; as, Greco-Roman architecture.

An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander,

GREGGOE; GREGO n.

hort jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant. [Written also griego.]

modes, the musical scales ordained by Pope Gregory the Great, and named after the ancient Greek scales, as Dorian, Lydian, etc. -- Gregorian telescope (Opt.), a form of reflecting telescope, named from Prof. James Gregory, of Edinburgh, who perfected it in 1663. A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope, ha…

See Greet, to weep.

Green. [Obs.] Chaucer.

imp. of Greet, to salute.

GRICE n. 2 definitions

See Gree, a step. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

GRIEVE; GREEVE n.

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

GRIG n. 4 definitions

ym: [etymology uncertain], a saying supposed by some to be a corruption of "As merry as a Greek; " by others, to be an allusion to the cricket.

GRIP n. 8 definitions

peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.

GRIPPLE a. 2 definitions

Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious. [Obs.] Spenser.

f the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseoviridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.

GROSSULAR n. 2 definitions

A translucent garnet of a pale green color like that of the gooseberry; -- called also grossularite.

One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.

GULCH v. 4 definitions

To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]

Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

GUNPOWDER n. 2 definitions

Hence, Nov. 5 is known in England as Guy Fawkes Day. -- Gunpowder tea, a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.

To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange. Dryden.