Grenadillo (n.) A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also Grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony.
Grenadine (n.) A thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear.
Grenadine (n.) A trade name for a dyestuff, consisting essentially of impure fuchsine.
Grenado (n.) Same as Grenade.
Grene (a.) Green.
Gres (n.) Grass.
Gressorial (a.) Alt. of Gressorious
Gressorious (a.) Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.
Gret (a.) Alt. of Grete
Grete (a.) Great.
Gretto () imp. of Greet, to salute.
Greve (n.) A grove.
Grew () imp. of Grow.
Grewsome (a.) Alt. of Gruesome
Gruesome (a.) Ugly; frightful.
Grey (a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).
Greyhound (n.) A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments.
Greylag (n.) See Graylag.
Gribble (n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.
Grice (n.) A little pig.
Grice (n.) See Gree, a step.
Grid (n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.
Griddle (n.) An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.
Griddle (n.) A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
Griddlecake (n.) A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.
Grided (imp. & p. p.) of Gride
Griding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gride
Gride (e. i.) To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword.
Grade (n.) A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
Gridelin (n.) A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet.
Gridiron (n.) A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
Gridiron (n.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
Gridiron (n.) A football field.
Grief (a.) Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
Grief (a.) Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.
Grief (a.) Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.
Griefful (a.) Full of grief or sorrow.
Griefless (a.) Without grief.
Griego (n.) See Greggoe.
Grievable (a.) Lamentable.
Grievance (v. t.) A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.
Grievance (v. t.) Grieving; grief; affliction.
Grievancer (n.) One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint.
Grieve (n.) Alt. of Greeve
Greeve (n.) A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff.
Grieved (imp. & p. p.) of Grieve
Grieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grieve
Grieve (v. t.) To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.
Grieve (v. t.) To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate.
Grieve (v. i.) To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.
Griever (n.) One who, or that which, grieves.
Grieving (a.) Sad; sorrowful; causing grief.
Grieving (n.) The act of causing grief; the state of being grieved.
Grievous (a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
Grievous (a.) Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
Grievous (a.) Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.
Griff (n.) Grasp; reach.
Griff (n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.
Griffe (n.) The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto.
Griffin (n.) An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe.
Griffin (n.) Alt. of Griffon
Griffon (n.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.
Griffon (n.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.
Griffon (n.) A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; -- called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir.
Griffon (n.) An English early apple.
Grig (n.) A cricket or grasshopper.
Grig (n.) Any small eel.
Grig (n.) The broad-nosed eel. See Glut.
Grig (n.) Heath.
Gril (a.) Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough.
Grill (v. t.) A gridiron.
Grill (v. t.) That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
Grilled (imp. & p. p.) of Grill
Grilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grill
Grill (n.) To broil on a grill or gridiron.
Grill (n.) To torment, as if by broiling.
Grillade (v. t.) The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled.
Grillage (n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.
Grille (v. t.) A lattice or grating.
Grilly (v. t.) To broil; to grill; hence, To harass.
Grilse (n.) A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Grim (Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
Grimace (n.) A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
Grimace (v. i.) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
Grimaced (a.) Distorted; crabbed.
Grimalkin (n.) An old cat, esp. a she-cat.
Grime (n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
Grime (v. t.) To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.
Grimily (adv.) In a grimy manner.
Griminess (n.) The state of being grimy.
Grimly (a.) Grim; hideous; stern.
Grimly (adv.) In a grim manner; fiercely.
Grimme (n.) A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon.
Grimness (n.) Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
Grimsir (n.) A stern man.
Grimy (superl.) Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.
Grin (n.) A snare; a gin.
Grinned (imp. & p. p.) of Grin
Grinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grin
Grin (v. i.) To show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl.