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5,575 words match “GRE”

salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak.

See Grieve, an overseer.

A step. See Gree, a step. [Obs.] The top of the ladder, or first greeze, is this. Latimer.

A registrar or recorder; a notary. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Pertaining to, or like, a flock. For this gregal conformity there is an excuse. W. S. Mayo.

Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common. [Obs.] "The gregarian soldiers." Howell.

GREGARINE a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the Gregarinæ. -- n.

GREGARINE; GREGARINAE n.

without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.

ck or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone. Burke. No birds of prey are gregarious. Ray. -- Gre*ga"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Gre-ga'ri-ous-ness, n.

GREGE; GREGGE v.

To make heavy; to increase. [Obs.] Wyclif.

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.]

Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name. Gregorian calendar, the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of East…

Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.

A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.

See Greet, to weep.

GREITH v. 2 definitions

To make ready; -- often used reflexively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GREMIAL a. 3 definitions

Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom. [R.]

other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. Hand grenade. (a) A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon besiegers mounting a breach. (b) A portable fire ext…

GRENADIER n. 3 definitions

Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Gren…