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Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough.

erance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure. "Inexpressible grandeur." Blair. In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood. Milton.

f insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage.

proclaim and intimate open war. E. Hall. So both conspiring 'gan to intimate Each other's grief. Spenser.

Overexcited, as with joy or grief. Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. Chapman.

One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person. W. Black.

t worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee. Beau. & Fl. Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, "alone". Ld. Lytton.

Suffering pain or grief. Pope. Laboring oar, the oar which requires most strength and exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull, the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.

Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser.

To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. Tennyson.

Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- some "Lenient of grief." Milton. Of relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic. Arbuthnot. Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand. Pope.

Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry. -- Light"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Light"-heart"ed*ness, n.

burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.

A letting go; discharge. B. Jonson. To give a loose, to give freedom. Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow. Addison.

Producing grief; saddening. [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.

ordered in intellect; crazy; insane. I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad. Shak.

Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.

eliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.

f anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.