GRIEVE
GRIEVE, verb transitive [Latin gravo, from gravis.]1. To give pain of mind to; to afflict; to wound the feelings. Nothing grieves a parent like the conduct of a profligate child...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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GRIEVED
GRIE'VED, participle passive Pained; afflicted; suffering sorrow.
GRIEVER
GRIE'VER, noun He or that which grieves.
GRIEVING
GRIE'VING, participle present tense Giving pain; afflicting.1. Sorrowing; exercised with grief; mourning.
GRIEVINGLY
GRIE'VINGLY, adverb In sorrow; sorrowfully.
GRIEVOUS
GRIE'VOUS, adjective [from grieve, or grief.] Heavy; oppressive; burdensome; as a grievous load of taxes.1. Afflictive; painful; hard to be borne.Correction is grievous to him t...
GRIEVOUSLY
GRIE'VOUSLY, adverb With pain; painfully; with great pain or distress; as, to be grievously afflicted.1. With discontent, ill will or grief.2. Calamitously; miserably; greatly; ...
GRIEVOUSNESS
GRIE'VOUSNESS, noun Oppressiveness; weight that gives pain or distress; as the grievousness of a burden.1. Pain; affliction; calamity; distress; as the grievousness of sickness,...
GRIFFON
GRIF'FON, noun [Latin gryps, gryphus.]In the natural history of the ancients, an imaginary animal said to be generated between the lion and eagle. It is represented with four le...
GRIFFON-LIKE
GRIF'FON-LIKE, adjective Resembling a griffon.
GRIG
GRIG, noun A small eel; the sand ell.1. A merry creature.2. Health.
GRILL
GRILL, verb transitive To broil. [Not in use.]GRILL, adjective Shaking with cold.
GRILLY
GRIL'LY, verb transitive To harass. [Not in use.]
GRIM
GRIM, adjective [Latin fremo; Eng. grumble, rumble.]1. Fierce; ferocious; impressing terror; frightful; horrible; as a grim look; a grim face; grim war.2. Ugly; ill looking.3. S...
GRIM-FACED
GRIM'-FACED, adjective Having a stern countenance.
GRIM-GRINNING
GRIM-GRINNING, adjective Grinning with a fierce countenance.
GRIM-VISAGED
GRIM-VISAGED, adjective Grim-faced.
GRIMACE
GRIMA'CE, noun1. A distortion of the countenance, from habit, affectation or insolence.2. An air of affection.
GRIMACED
GRIMA'CED, adjective Distorted; having a crabbed look.
GRIMALKIN
GRIMAL'KIN, noun The name of an old cat.
GRIME
GRIME, noun Foul matter; dirt; sullying blackness, deeply insinuated.GRIME, verb transitive To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.
GRIMLY
GRIM'LY, adjective Having a hideous or stern look.GRIM'LY, adverb Fiercely; ferociously; with a look of fury or ferocity.1. Sourly; sullenly.
GRIMNESS
GRIM'NESS, noun Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness.
GRIMY
GRI'MY, adjective Full of grime; foul.
GRIN
GRIN, verb intransitive1. To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter or scorn.Foo...
GRIND
GRIND, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passive ground. [This word, if n is radical, may be allied to rend; if not, it coincides with grate; to make smooth, as molli...
GRINDER
GRINDER, noun One that grinds, or moves a mill.1. The instrument of grinding.2. A tooth that grinds or chews food; a double tooth; a jaw-tooth.3. The teeth in general.