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A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] Locke.

To gride. See Gride. Spenser.

See Griffin. Spenser.

A genus of insects including the common crickets.

To gripe. [Obs.] See Gripe. Spenser.

A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.

A shell of the genus Gryphea.

The griffin vulture.

A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.

Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Shak.

A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun. [India] Yule.

Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.

r rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

In an angry manner; under the influence of anger.

The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything. Whole Duty of Man.

To make hungry; to whet the appetite of. Sir W. Scott.

The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.