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Grecian

A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.

Grecism

An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.

Grecize

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

Greco-Roman

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

Grecque

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

Greed

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

Greediness

The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.

Greedy

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

Greek

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

greeklike

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

Greekling

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

Green

To become or grow green.

green-blind

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

green-blindness

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

Green-broom

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

Green-leek

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

Green-stall

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

Greenback

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.

Greenbacker

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

Greenbone

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

Greencloth

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.

Greenfinch

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

Greengage

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.

Greengill

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

Greengrocer

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

Greenhead

The mallard. The striped bass. See Bass.

Greenhorn

A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.

Greenhouse

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

Greening

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.

Greenish

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

Greenland

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

Greenlet

One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo.

greenling

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

Greenly

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

greenmail

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.

Greenness

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

Greenockite

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

Greenroom

The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.

Greensand

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.

Greenshank

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

Greenstone

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

Greenth

The state or quality of being green; verdure.

greenwing

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

Greenwood

Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade.

Greeting

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

Greeve

See Grieve, an overseer.

Greeve Grieve

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

Greeze

A step. See Gree, a step.

Greffier

A registrar or recorder; a notary.

Gregal

Pertaining to, or like, a flock.

Gregarian

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

Gregarinae

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.

Gregarine

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

Gregarious

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

Grego Greggoe

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

Gregorian

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

Gregory

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

Greillade

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

Greisen

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

Grenade

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.

Grenadier

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.

Grenadillo

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

Grenadine

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

Gressorious Gressorial

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

Gretto

imp. of Greet, to salute.

Grey

See Gray (the correct orthography).

grey-haired

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

Greyhound

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.

greyness

a neutral achromatic color midway between while and black.

gri-gri

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

Grias

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

Gribble

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.

Grid

A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

Griddle

An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.

Griddlecake

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

Gride

A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

Gridelin

A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet.

Gridiron

A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.

gridiron-tailed lizard

a lizard having a long tail with black bands (Callisaurus draconoides), which lives in the deserts of the southwestern U. S. and Mexico; called also zebra-tailed lizard.

Grief

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.

Grievance

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.

Grievancer

One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint.

Grieve

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

One who, or that which, grieves.

Grieving

Sad; sorrowful; causing grief. The act of causing grief; the state of being grieved.

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