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Grieving; grief; affliction. The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked. Milton.

One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. [Obs.] Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.

Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]

g; with indifference; calmly. Withdraw unto some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances. Shak.

To lament; to bewail. [Obs.] They might the grievance inwardly complain. Daniel. By chaste Lucrece's soul that late complain'd Her wrongs to us. Shak.

n a direct line. -- To pick a crow, To pluck a crow, to state and adjust a difference or grievance (with any one).

The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier.

Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance. Be factious for redress of all these griefs. Shak.

Affliction; distress; grievance. My people's pressures are grievous. Eikon Basilike. In the midst of his great troubles and pressures. Atterbury.

A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. Shak. A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. Davenant.

n, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.

That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.

rent of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties. They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize. Daniel.