grelt

See gree1. gre2t, n. See gree2 greablet, a. [ME., Lat us tweyn in thys thyng be greable , Lo e for lo , by iust conuencion. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 111. grease (grēs), n. [Early mod. E. also greese, greece; ME. grese, grees, sometimes spelled grece, grai e = Pr. grais , m., grai a , f., = Sp. gras a = Pg. graxa = It. gra a , grease, fat; fem. of OF. gras , F. gras = Pr. gras = Sp. graso = Pg. graxo = It. gras so, thick, fat, cra us , thick, fat: see Cf. Gael. creis , fat.] 1. Animal fat in cra . a soft state; oily or unctuous animal matter of any kind, as tallow, suet, or lard; particularly, the fatty matter of land-animals, as distinguished from the oily matter of marine animals. or (formerly) of grease. That nane werreye my wylde boote Waynour hirselvene, And that in the sesone whenne grees es a ignyde. Morte Arthure, MS. Lincoln, f. 60. ( Hall i well .) The harts are " in grease" "from August to the middle of October. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 509. 3. In farriery, a swelling and inflammation in a horse's legs attended with the secretion of oily matter and cracks in the skin. A hart of greaset. See def. 2.- Bear's grease. See bear2. - Foot grease, the refuse of cotton-seed after the oil is pre ed out. U. S. Cons. Rep., No. lvii. (1885), p. 19. Green grease, the thick portion of the products of coal-tar distillation. It consists of heavy oils, some naphthalene, and anthracene. It is used as a coarse lubricating material. Ure, Dict., IV. 432. Also called anthracene oil. Commercial anthracene is obtained in the following manner from the so-called green grease. Benedikt , Coal-tar Colours (trans.), p. 68. In grease, fat and fit for killing, as game. See def. 2.In the grease, said of wool which has not been cleaned after shearing. Of greaset. Same as in grease. To fry or stew in one's own grease. (a) To be bathed in sweat. My father's ghost comes thro' the door, Though shut as sure as hands can make it, And leads me such a fearful racket, I stew all night in my own grease. Colton , Virgil Traves tie (1807), p. 35. (b) To suffer by one's own presumption or folly; endure without mitigation or relief the evil consequences of one's own acts. But certeinly I made folk swich cheere, That in his owene grece I made hym frye For angre and for verray jalousie. Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 487. She fryeth in hir owne grease, but as for my parte, If she be angry, beshrew her angry harte. J. Heywood , Dialogue, etc. grease (grēs or grēz), v . t .; pret. and pp. greased , ppr. greasing . [ grai er ); from the noun.] 1. To smear or anoint with grease or fat. The carriage bowls along, and all are pleas'd If Tom be sober, and the wheels well greas'd. Cowper, Progre of Error, 1. 439. 2. To bribe; corrupt with payments or gifts. [Obsolete or rare.] Envy not the store Of the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor. Dryden, tr. of Persius. 31. To gull; cheat. IMG:content-2630.png:[blocks in formation] 5. In farriery, to affect with the disease called grease. - To grease in the fistt, to bribe. Nares. Did you not grease the sealers of Leaden hall throughly in the fiste , they would never be sealed, but turned away. Greene, Quip for an Upstart Courtier (Harl. Misc., V. 411). He [Epic rates] betrayed Scythopolis and some other towns to the Jews, having been well greased in the fist for his paines. Abp. U her, Annals. To grease the palm of, to bribe. [Colloq.]