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A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry.

raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like. They grin, they shrug. They bow, they snarl, they snatch, they hug. Swift.

rom; to hold a relative position; to have direction. Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. Selden. Sits the wind in that quarter Sir W. Scott.

Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools. [Prov. Eng.] Sir W. Petty.

A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt. "Who can refute a sneer" Raley.

A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill. Cowell.

Vexation; chargrin; mortification. [R.] Shak. In spite of, or Spite of, in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. "Continuing, spite of pain, to use a knee after it had been slightly ibnjured." H. Spenser. "And saved me in spite of the world, the devil, and myself." South. "In spite…

To strike; to beat; to crush. These cooks how they stamp and strain and grind. Chaucer.

The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding. De Colange.

ything what it is; real or existing essence. These cooks, how they stamp, and strain, and grind, And turn substance into accident! Chaucer. Heroic virtue did his actions guide, And he the substance, not the appearance, chose. Dryden.

The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. [Prov. Eng.]

Tanagrine.

A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.

tay or stop for. [Archaic] He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Shak. He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question. Sir W. Scott.

iven to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.

tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding. Erskine.

The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk. Encyc. Brit.

alled woolly bears. -- Tiger shark (Zoöl.), a voracious shark (Galeocerdo maculatus or tigrinus) more or less barred or spotted with yellow. It is found in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Called also zebra shark. -- Tiger shell (Zoöl.), a large and conspicuously spotted cowrie (Cypræa tigris); -- so called from i…

Tigerish; tigrine. [R.]

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill. -- Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge wher…