grillroom

A room where meat, ., is cooked on a grill. gril-lā de, s. [Fr., from griller =to grill.] 1. The act of grilling. 2. Meat, fish, ., broiled on a grill or gridiron. grill-age (age as ig), s. [Fr., from grille =a grate, a grating.] Hydr. Eng.: A structure of sleepers and cro beams forming a foundation in marshy soil for a pier or wharf. grille, s. [Fr.] [GRILL (2), v.] An open grate or grating; lattice-work of metal; used (1) As a screen to shut in and protect any particular spot or thing, as a tomb, a relic, a shrine, . (2) The gate or entrance to a religious house or sacred building. (3) A small screen or open grating inserted in the outer door of a monastic or conventual building, to enable the inmates to converse with visitors or to answer inquiries without the nece ity of opening the door. *gril-lý, v . t. [GRILL (1), v.] To hara ; to annoy; to hurt; hence, fig ., to hold up to ridicule, to mock. grilse, s. [Sw. grå = gray, and lar = salmon. ( Jamie son.)] Ichthy.: A young salmon, when it makes its first return to the fresh water, which is usually in the second year of its life. ( Prof. John Wilson .) "Sea-fish frae Hartlepool and Sunder land by land carriage, forbye trouts, grilses, salmon."-Scott: Rob Roy, ch. vi. grim, *grim me, *grym, *grymme, a . [A. S. grim =fierce, cruel, from gram = angry, furious; cogn. with Dut.grimmig angry, grimmen =to foam with rage; Icel.grimmr =grim, stern, gramr =wrathful; Dan. grim =ugly, grim, gram =wrathful; Sw. grym =cruel, grim; Goth.gram =angry; Ger. grim mig furious, grimmen =torage, grimm =fury, gram =hostile.] 1. Fierce, stern, ferocious, forbidding. "With a grim and surly voice he bid them awake." Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progre , pt. i. 2. Fierce, furious, mercile ly cruel. "Now is the Kyng wroth and grym ." A lisa under, 754. 3. Of a forbidding aspect; ghastly, horrid, horrible, hideous. 'Making death more grim ."-Add is on: Cato , ii. 1. 4 Cruel, furious, mercile . "Well sterne strokes and well grym , Ther wer in eche a side." Launfal: Ritson, vol. i. Obvious compounds: Grim-faced, grim-grin ning, grim - looked, grim - visaged, . pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, grim *grim, *grym, s. [M. H. Ger. grim: O. H. Ger. grimmé; Dut. grim ; Ger. grimm.] Fury, rage. "To him he stirt with briful grim ." Gwaine and Gawaine, 1,661. *grim, v . t . [GRIM, a.] To make grim or fierce. "Grimmed by the shadow of the Red Hag."-Carlyle: French Revolution , pt. ii., bx. v., ch. viii. gri-māçe, s . [Fr., from Icel. grim a =a mask, a hood; A. S. grim a =a mask.] A distortion of the face, expre ive of some feeling, as pain, disgust, contempt, satisfaction, .; a smirk. "With hollow form, and gesture, and grimace." Cowper : Expostulation , 122. gri-māçe, v. i. [GRIMACE, 8.] To make grimaces; to distort the countenance; to smirk. gri-māçed, a. [English grimac (e); -ed.] Dis torted; having a crabbed look. gri-mal-kin, s . [For gray - malkin , from gray , and malkin = moll - kin =little Mary; cf. tomcat .] An old cat; generally a female cat. "Grimalkin, to domestic vermin sworn An everlasting foe." Philips: Splendid Shilling. grime, s . [Dan. grim, grum =soot, grime; Icel. grim a a mask; a covering; O. Dut. grijmsel , grim sel =soot, smut; grimmelen to soil, to begrime.] Dirt or foul matter; dirt deeply insinuated or ingrained; sullying blackne not easily cleansed; smut. "She sweats; a man may go over shoes in the grime of it."-Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors , iii. 2.