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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.

Grievous

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

Griff

A person of mixed blood.

Griffe

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

Griffin

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

Griffon

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.

Grig

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

Gril

Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough.

Grill

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

Grillade

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

Grillage

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

Grillroom

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

Grilly

To broil; to grill; hence, To harass.

Grilse

A young salmon after its first return from the sea.

Grim

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

Grimace

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

Grime

To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.

Grimly

In a grim manner; fiercely.

Grimme

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

Grimness

Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

Grimy

Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.

Grin

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

Grind

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

Grindelia

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

Grinder

One who, or that which, grinds.

Grindle

The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle.

Grindstone

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

Gringo

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

Grint

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

Grip

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

Gripe

Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

Gripeful

Disposed to gripe; extortionate.

Griper

One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.

Gripman

The man who manipulates a grip.

Grippe

The influenza or epidemic catarrh.

Gripper

One who, or that which, grips or seizes.

Gripple

Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious.

Grisaille

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

Grise

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

Griseous

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

Grisette

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

Grisliness

The quality or state of being grisly; horrid.

Grisly

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

Grison

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.

Grisons

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

Gristly

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

Gristmill

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

Grit

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

Grith

Peace; security; agreement.

Gritty

Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

Grivet

A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.

Grizzle

To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble.

Grizzled

Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.

Grizzly

A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.

groan

To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.

Groan

A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans.

groat

An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.

Groats

Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.

Grobian

A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.

Grocer

A trader who deals in foods such as meats, dairy products, produce, tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities.

Grocery

The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.

groenendael

A black-coated sheep dog with a heavily plumed tail.

Grog

A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.

Groggy

Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs.

grogshop

A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.

groin

The snout of a swine.

Groin

To fashion into groins; to build with groins.

Groined

Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.

Grolier

The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc.

grommet

A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope. Sometimes written grummet.

Gromwell

A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera.

Groom

To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

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