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ief to; to allow; to yield; to concede. Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree. Dryden.

A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear. Dryden. Grappling iron, a hooked iron used for grappling and holding fast a vessel or other object. -- Grappling tongs, broad-mouthed tongs for gathering oysters.

To make a harsh sound by friction. I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on the exletree. Shak.

the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden.

n of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences. Grease bush. (Bot.) Same as Grease wood (below). -- Grease moth (Zoöl.), a pyralid moth (Aglossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc.…

Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.

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…

Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade. Dryden.

A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet. [Written also gredaline, grizelin.] Dryden.

To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. To grind the subject or defraud the prince. Dryden.

A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom. Dryden. Groom porter, formerly an officer in the English royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.

ant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. "Grotesque design." Dryden. "Grotesque incidents." Macaulay.

s, the grounds of the estate are well kept. Thy next design is on thy neighbor's grounds. Dryden. 4.

on or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.

at on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. To creep and grovel on the ground. Dryden.

To feel or grope in the dark. [Obs.] Dryden.

. Milton. Of ambushed men, whom, by their arms and dress, To be Taxallan enemies I guess. Dryden.

, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.

Without a guide. Dryden.

said, He is guilty of death. Matt. xxvi. 66. Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife. Dryden.