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.

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

An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.

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

A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

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

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

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.

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.

Full of grief or sorrow.

Without grief.

See Greggoe.

Lamentable.

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.

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

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.

One who, or that which, grieves.

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

Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.

A person of mixed blood.

The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto.

An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe.

One of a European breed of rough-coated dogs, somewhat taller than the setter and of a grizzly liver color. They are used in hunting game birds. The Brussels griffon is a very small, wiry-coated, short-nosed pet dog of Belgian origin.

A cricket or grasshopper. Any small eel. The broad-nosed eel. See Glut.

An African talisman or charm.

Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough.

To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.

The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled.

A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.

A room specially fitted for broiling food, esp. one in a restaurant, hotel, or clubhouse, arranged for prompt service.

netting made of wires.

To broil; to grill; hence, To harass.

A young salmon after its first return from the sea.

Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

Distorted; crabbed.

An old cat, especially a she-cat.

To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.

In a grimy manner.

The state of being grimy.

In a grim manner; fiercely.

A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon.

Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

A stern man.

Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.

The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile.

The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.

Ground.

The dried stems and leaves of tarweed (Grindelia), used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis.

One who, or that which, grinds.

Leather workers' materials.

from Grind.

In a grinding manner.

The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle.

A small drain.

A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects.

Among Spanish Americans, a foreigner, especially an American or sometimes an Englishman; -- often used disparagingly or as a term of reproach.

One who grins.

In a grinning manner.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Grind, contr. from grindeth.

imp. of Grin, v. i., 1.

Grinding.

To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

Disposed to gripe; extortionate.

One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.

In a griping or oppressive manner.

The man who manipulates a grip.

The influenza or epidemic catarrh.

One who, or that which, grips or seizes.

Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious.

The quality of being gripple.

A traveler's handbag.

A little pig.

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

Ambergris.

A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.

Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly.

A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry.

The spine of a hog.

See Grizzled.

The quality or state of being grisly; horrid.

Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.

A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.

Cartilage. See Cartilage.

Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.

A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.