Webster's Dictionary 1913

2836

Griefless

Grief″less, a. Without grief. Huloet.

2837

Griego

Grie″go (?), n. See Greggoe.

2838

Grievable

Griev″a‐ble (?), a. Lamentable.

2839

Grievance

Griev″ance (?), n. [OF. grevance. See Grieve, v. t.] 1. A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, a...

2840

Grievancer

Griev″an‐cer (?), n. One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint.Petition... against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.

2841

Grieve

Grieve (grēv), Greeve, n. [AS. gerēfa. Cf. Reeve an officer.] A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff.Their children were horsewhipped by the g...

2842

Grieve (2)

Grieve (grēv), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Grieved (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Grieving.] [OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare to burden, oppress, fr. gravis heavy. See Grief.] 1. To occasion...

2843

Grieve (3)

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.Do not you grieve at this. Shak.

2844

Griever

Griev″er (?), n. One who, or that which, grieves.

2845

Grieving

Griev″ing, a. Sad; sorrowful; causing grief. — n. The act of causing grief; the state of being grieved. — Griev″ing‐ly, adv.Shak.

2846

Grievous

Griev″ous (?), a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See Grief.] 1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.The famine was grievous in th...

2847

Griff

Griff (?), n. [Cf. Gripe.] 1. Grasp; reach.A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff. Holland.2. (Weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which r...

2848

Griff (2)

Griff, n. A person of mixed blood.

2849

Griffe

Griffe (?), n. The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto.

2850

Griffe (2)

Griffe, n. A person of mixed negro and American Indian blood.

2851

Griffin

Grif″fin (?), n. An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe. H. Kingsley.

2852

Griffin (2)

{ Grif″fin (?), Grif″fon (?), } n. [OE. griffin, griffon, griffoun, F. griffon, fr. L. gryphus, equiv to gryps, Gr. �; — so called because of the hooked beak, and akin to γρυπόσ...

2853

Griffon (2)

Grif″fon (grĭf″fŏn), n. One of a European breed of rough-coated dogs, somewhat taller than the setter and of a grizzly liver color. They are used in hunt game birds. The Brussel...

2854

Grig

Grig (grĭg), n. [Cf. Sw. kräk little creature, reptile; or D. kriek cricket, E. cricket.] 1. (Zoöl.) (a) A cricket or grasshopper. (b) Any small eel. (c) The broad-nosed eel. Se...

2855

Gril

Gril (grĭl), a. [OE. gril harsh; akin to G. grell offending the ear or eye, shrill, dazzling, MHG. grel angry; cf. AS. gallan to provoke.] Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough. Rom...

2856

Grill

Grill, n. [F. gril. See Grill, v. t.] 1. A gridiron.make grills of to broil their meat. Cotton.2. That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.

2857

Grill (2)

Grill, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Grilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Grilling.] [F. griller, fr. gril gridiron, OF. graïl, L. craticulum for craticula fine hurdlework, a small gridiron, dim. o...

2858

Grill (3)

Grill (?), n. 1. A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.2. A grillroom.

2859

Grill (4)

Grill, v. t. To stamp or mark with a grill.

2860

Grill (5)

Grill, v. i. To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains. Kipling.

2861

Grillade

Gril‐lade″ (�), n. [F. See Grill, v. t.] The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled.

2862

Grillage

Gril″lage (?), n.(Hydraulic Eagin.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.