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Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably. [Obs.] Chaucer. Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke. Fairfax.

See Gree a step. [Obs.]

An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

, adv. In a greedy manner.

The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak.

or food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.

A glutton. [Low] Todd.

An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm. A greegree man, an African magician or fetich priest.

Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends. See under Calends. -- Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the…

Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows:

A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

A female Greek. [R.]

Peculiar to Greece.

A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.

Having a sickly color; wan. To look so green and pale. Shak.

A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.

Having green eyes.

An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.

A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.

e United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.