A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.

The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.

The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.

High-spirited; fearless.

The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.

a son of a niece or nephew.

a daughter of one's niece or nephew.

an uncle of one's father or mother.

An overcoat.

To become large; to dilate.

not to be surpassed.

In a great degree; much.

The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.

One of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus Colymbus (formerly Podiceps), and allied genera, found in the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.

A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.

To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.

An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.

To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized.

Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman; as, Greco-Roman architecture.

An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander.

A step.

See Gree a step.

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

In a greedy manner.

The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.

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

A glutton.

A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.

A female Greek.

Peculiar to Greece.

of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks; as, greeklike struggles.

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

To become or grow green.

Unable to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red.

A defect of color vision characterized by inability to distinguish green and purplish-red.

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.

One of the legal tender notes of the United States; a note of paper currency of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.

One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.

Any garfish (Belone or Tylosurus). The European eelpout.

A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates.

Green plants; verdure.

A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

See Bluefish, and Pollock.

A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.

An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.

A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

The mallard. The striped bass. See Bass.

A state of greenness; verdancy.

A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.

A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.

A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.

Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.

An island situated between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, the largest island in the world; it is a Danish territory.

A native of Greenland.

any spiny-finned food fish of the northern Pacific coasts, of the genus Hexagrammos.

With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely. Of a green color.

The act, performed by a publicly traded corporation, of paying a corporate raider to give up a takeover attempt, by buying the shares of stock he owns; also, the threat posed by corporate raiders to take over a company unless their stocks are purchased by the company at a price giving them a large profit.

The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.

Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.

The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.

A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.

A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.

Turf green with grass.

The state or quality of being green; verdure.

See Greenbroom.

The common teal (Anas crecca) of Eurasia and North America.

Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade.

Greeting.

One who weeps or mourns.

Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.

See Grieve, an overseer.

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff.

A step. See Gree, a step.

A registrar or recorder; a notary.

Pertaining to, or like, a flock.

Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common.

An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are am/biform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.

Of or pertaining to the Gregarin/. One of the Gregarin/.

Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.

To make heavy; to increase.

A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant.

Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name.

Pope Gregory XIII., born 1572, died 1585, the pope who introduced the modern calendar.

Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.

A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.

See Greet, to weep.

Goods; furniture.

A bosom friend.

A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies.

a native or inhabitant of Grenada.

Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc.

A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also Grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony.

A thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear.

Same as Grenade.

Green.

Grass.

Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

Great.

imp. of Greet, to salute.

A grove.

imp. of Grow.

See Gray (the correct orthography).

showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.

same as gray-headed.

a man who is old.

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.

somewhat gray.

See Graylag.

a neutral achromatic color midway between while and black.

An African amulet, talisman or charm. Same as gree-gree,

The genus of trees including the anchovy pear tree Grias cauliflora, whose fruit is somewhat like the mango.

A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or Limnoria terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.

See Gree, a step.