grind lest one (grindlston)

[ Quat! hit clatered in the clyff, as hit cleue schulde, As one vpon a gryndelston hade grounden a sythe. 2626 [NL., named in honor of Henry Grinnell, a merchant of New York (1800-74).] A genus of florideous marine alge, comprising a single gripe greppe, a channel, furrow, = LG. gruppe (dim. grüppel ), a ditch, drain; allied to and prob. (with alteration of vowel, as in grit2, ern coast of the United States. It is one of the most beautiful of all the seaweeds, having broad, delicately membranaceous, rosy-red fronds composed of a single layer of cells. The spores occur in thicker and darker spots in the frond.