grindstone grit (grinds ton grit)

A sharp grained silicious rock, suitable for making grindstones and whetstones. See millstone-grit. gringo (gring'gō), n. [Sp., gibberish; prob. a pop. var. of Griego, Greek.] Among Spanish Americans, an English man or an Anglo American: term of contempt. English men, or Gringos as they are contemptuously termed, are not liked in Chili, and travelling is uncomfortable and dangerous. W. W. Greener, [The Gun, p. 649. gringolé (gringgộ-la), a . In her., same as anserated. Grinnellia Grinnellia American a , frond reduced. a , structure of the leaf; b , vertical section of a conceptacle, showing the chains of spores. (gri-nel'i-ä), n. (a and b magnified.) IMG:content-2684.png:[blocks in formation] kripfen, kriffen, gripfen ), seize, grip; a secondary verb, the primary being AS. grip an, ME. gripen, E. gripe: see gripe1. The F. gripper, seize, grip, is from a LG. or Scand. form of gripel, q. v. Cf. grip1, n.] I. trans. To grasp firmly firmly with the hand; gripe; hence, to seize and hold fast by force of any kind. [They] grippit the godys and the gay ladys, And all the company clene closit hom within. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3203. My lord may grip my va al lands, For there again maun I never be! Jamie Telfer (Child's Ballads, VI. 108). Until the car is gripped to the moving cable, it must depend for its motive power upon some other agent. Science, VIII. 275. II. in trans. Naut . , to take hold; hold fast: as, the anchor grips .