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Armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural.

A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.

Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. Shak. Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub (Emilaz rotundifolia) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also cat brier. -- Green con (Zoöl.), the pol…

Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.

Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.

by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense. A deal box . . . to carry groceries in. Goldsmith. The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought grocery and millinery. Macaulay.

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

od, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural.

e.] A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.

To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.

Low; deep in the throat; guttural; rumbling; as,

To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.

A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.

Conjectural. [Obs.] Feltham.

by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing. Gutter member (Arch.), an architectural member made by treating the outside face of the gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. -- Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for…

Pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (Guttiferæ) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap.

To make in the throat; to gutturalize. [R.] For which the Germans gutturize a sound. Coleridge.

A combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo- nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal.

The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B.