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oducing 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. -- Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus…

A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.

One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.

See Ambergris.

To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

To remove grease or fatty matter from, as wool or silk.

or machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.

Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

le, a candle made of the pith of certain rushes, peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease. -- Sale by inch of candle, an auction in which persons are allowed to bid only till a small piece of candle burns out. -- Standard candle (Photom.), a special form of candle employed as a standard in photometric measurem…

The common greasewood of the western United States (Sarcobatus vermiculatus).

Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven. Phillips. Bailey.

Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc.

To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it. Tomlinson.

To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten. Shak.

To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute. [Obs.] In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed. Shak.

A very small quantity or value. [Obs.] In her cup was no farthing seen of grease. Chaucer.

cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb (Bot.), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing clot…

uted in 1429 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; -- called also Toison d'Or. -- Golden grease, a bribe; a fee. [Slang] -- Golden hair (Bot.), a South African shrubby composite plant with golden yellow flowers, the Chrysocoma Coma-aurea. -- Golden Horde (Hist.), a tribe of Mongolian Tartars who overran and settled i…

The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm. [Prov. Eng.]

Axle grease. See Gome. [Prov. Eng.]