gray whaler (grahwaler)

One who or a ve el which is employed in capturing gray whales. grazel (grāz), v.; pret. and pp. grazed, ppr. grazing. [Early mod. E. also grase; And like an oxe vnder the fote He [a man] grazeth as he nedes mote To getten him his liues foode. Gower, Conf. Amant., i. IMG:content-2627.jpg:[graphic] When that gander grasythe on the grene. Lydgate , Order of Fools, 1. 187. The Giraffa,. by reason of his long legs before, and shorter behind, not able to grase without difficultie. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 556. I take it to be a general opinion that they [hares] graze , but it is an erroneous one, at least gra is not their staple. Cowper , Treatment of Hares. 2t. To supply gra . Then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year. Bacon . 3t. To spread and devour, as fire. As every state lay next to the other that was oppre ed, so the fire perpetually grazed . Bacon , War with Spain. II. trans. 1. To feed or supply with growing gra ; furnish pasture for. He hath a house and a barn in repair, and a field or two to graze his cows, with a garden and orchard. Swift. IMG:content-2628.png:[blocks in formation] grece. 2611 The cony, ley hym on the bak in the disch, if he haue Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 145. Is not the grease of a mutton as wholesome? Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. "A great bear, that had been imported from Green land for the sake of its grease." "That should at least have saved you a bill with your hairdre er." Bulwer , My Novel, II. 360. 2. In hunting , the fat of a hart, boar, wolf, fox, badger, hare, rabbit, etc., with reference to the season (called grease- time ) when they are fat Then he devoted himself to unharne ing Dobbin, and turning him out for a graze on the common. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 3. and pp. grazed, ppr. graz graze2 (grāz), v.; pret. and pp. ing. [Prob. only a particular use of grazel, affected perhaps by a ociation with raze, q. v. Not connected with gratel.] I. trans. 1. Το touch or rub lightly in pa ing; brush lightly the surface of: as, the bullet grazed his cheek; the ship grazed the rocks. IMG:content-2629.png:[blocks in formation] one. The shot... Pierc'd Talgol's gaberdine, and grazing Upon his shoulder, in the pa ing, Lodg'd in Magnano's bra habergeon, Who straight "A surgeon!" cried, "A surgeon!" S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 535. A grazing iron collar grinds my neck. Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites. In the reflected beam, light polarized in the plane of incidence preponderates until the incidence is a grazing A. Daniell , Prin. of Physics, p. 471. graze2 (grāz), n. [ graze2 , v.] 1. The act of grazing or slightly abrading; a slight stroke or scratch in pa ing. Paul had been touched a mere graze - skin deep. Lever, Knight of Gwynne, III. 19. 2. In gun ., the point where a shot strikes the ground or water and rebounds. grazer (grā'zėr), n. 1. An animal that grazes, or feeds on growing herbage. On the barren heath... the cackling goose, Close grazer , finds wherewith to ease her want. J. Philips , Cider, i. 2. pl. [ cap.] Same as Boskoi. grazier (grā'zher), n. [Formerly also grasier; The inhabitants be rather for the most parte grasiers then ploughmen, because they giue themselves more to feeding then to tillage. Stow , Description of England, p. 2.