grudging (grujing)

[A var. of earlier and dial. grutching, And suffire mekely for his lufe with-owttene gruchynge if thou may. Hampole , Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 30. Sir, ble ed be God, with all our evil reports, grudgings , and restraints, we are merry in God. Bp. Ridley, in Bradford's Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 84. Great grudging and manie a bitter cur e followed about the leuieng of this monie, and much mischeefe rose thereof, as after it appeared. Holinshed, Rich. II., an. 1381. 2. Unwillingne ; reluctance. Graunte me boute grucching to haue that gaie maide. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4748. 3. Envy; begrudging.-4t. An acce or paroxysm of a disease, as the chill before a fever. From any gout's least grutching Ble the Sovereign and his touching. B. Jonson, Gipsies Metamorphosed. So clerely was she deliuered from all grudgeyng of the ague. J. Udall , On Mat. viii. The strongest man May have the grudging of an ague on him. Beau. and Fl . , Captain, iii. 1. gruelled, ppr. grueling or gruelling. [ Wadham ran up by the side of that first Trinity yester day, and he said that they were as well gruelled as so many posters before they got to the stile. Kingsley, Alton Locke, xii. grueler, grueller (grö'el-er), n . An overmastering difficulty; a finisher; a floorer. [Slang, Eng.] This £25 of his is a grueller , and I learnt with interest that you are inclined to get the fish's nose out of the weed. Kingsley , Letter, May, 1856. gruell (grö'el), n. In coal - mining, coal. Gres ley. [Ireland.]