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n. [ OF. agrevance, fr. agrever. See Aggrieve. ] Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Aggrieved p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrieving ] [ OE. agreven, OF. agrever; a (L. ad) + grever to burden, injure, L. gravare to weigh down, fr. gravis heavy. See Grieve, and cf. Aggravate. ] To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grieve; to lament. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 subjected to an injustice. the aggrieved mother.
Syn. -- injured, wronged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L., agricolatio. ] Agriculture. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist. Dodsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. ager field + cultor cultivator. ] An agriculturist; a farmer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Agricultural ant (Zool.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice. [1913 Webster]

n. An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.) [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. agricultura; ager field + cultura cultivation: cf. F. agriculture. See Acre and Culture. ] The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Agriculture. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + grief. ] In grief; amiss. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. agremoyne, OF. aigremoine, L. agrimonia for argemonia, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants of the Rose family. (b) The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Agrimonia eupatoria, or common agrimony, a perennial herb with a spike of yellow flowers, was once esteemed as a medical remedy, but is now seldom used. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + grin. ] In the act of grinning. “His visage all agrin.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed or engaged in agriology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wild, savage + -logy. ] Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ AS. āgrīsan to dread; ā- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + grīsan, for gr&unr_;san (only in comp.), akin to OHG. gr&unr_;is&unr_;n, G. grausen, to shudder. See Grisly. ] To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To terrify; to affright. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His manly face that did his foes agrise. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ambre gris, i. e., gray amber; F. gris gray, which is of German origin: cf. OS. grîs, G. greis, gray-haired. See Amber. ] A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212° Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an angry manner; under the influence of anger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything. Whole Duty of Man. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Good against gout. -- n. A medicine for gout. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Algorism. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration. --
Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begrimed p. pr. & vb. n. Begriming. ] To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, begrimes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chagrined p. pr. & vb. n. Chargrining. ] [ Cf. F. chagriner See Chagrin, n. ] To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. chagrin shagreen, a particular kind of rough and grained leather; also a rough fishskin used for graters and files; hence (Fig.), a gnawing, corroding grief. See Shagreen. ] Vexation; mortification. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction. Richard Porson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin. Pope.

Syn. -- Vexation; mortification; peevishness; fretfulness; disgust; disquiet. Chagrin, Vexation, Mortification. These words agree in the general sense of pain produced by untoward circumstances. Vexation is a feeling of disquietude or irritating uneasiness from numerous causes, such as losses, disappointments, etc. Mortification is a stronger word, and denotes that keen sense of pain which results from wounded pride or humiliating occurrences. Chagrin is literally the cutting pain produced by the friction of Shagreen leather; in its figurative sense, it varies in meaning, denoting in its lower degrees simply a state of vexation, and its higher degrees the keenest sense of mortification.

“Vexation arises chiefly from our wishes and views being crossed: mortification, from our self-importance being hurt; chagrin, from a mixture of the two.” Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be vexed or annoyed. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Chagrined. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. feeling vexed, especially due to feeling inferior or unworthy and hence embarrassed; as, chagrined at the poor sales of his book.
Syn. -- embarrassed, mortified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. choerogryllus, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; a young swine + &unr_; a pig. ] (Zool.) See Cony. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease. Sir. T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Corrupted fr. agrimony. ] (Bot.) The herb agrimony. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aegrimonia. ] Sorrow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aigrette, griotte, formerly agriote; cf. aigre sour. ] A kind of sour cherry. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aegritudo, fr. aeger sick. ] Sickness; ailment; sorrow. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To grieve. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Fingrigos [ So called in Jamaica. ] (Bot.) A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry. [ 1913 Webster ]

, n. [ AS. gerēfa. Cf. Reeve an officer. ] A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The genus of trees including the anchovy pear tree Grias cauliflora, whose fruit is somewhat like the mango.
Syn. -- genus Grias. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Cf. Prov. E. grib to bite. ] (Zool.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or Limnoria terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gris, grise; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. gr?ss, Sw. gris, Dan. grus, also Gr. &unr_;, Skr. ghrshvi, boar. Cf. Grise, Griskin. ] A little pig. [ Written also grise. ] [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gree, a step. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elec.) A plate or sheet of lead with perforations, or other irregularities of surface, by which the active material of a secondary battery or accumulator is supported. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Electronics) a mesh or coil of fine wire in an electron tube, connected to the circuit so as to regulate the current passing through the tube. [ PJC ]

4. any network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines; -- they are used, for example, as reference coordinates to locate objects or places on a map. [ PJC ]

5. anything resembling a grid{ 4 }, as the Manhattan street grid. See also gridlock. [ PJC ]

6. a network of connected conductors for distributing electrical power, especially one using high-tension lines for wide geographic distribution of power; as, the Northeast power grid. [ PJC ]

7. (Football) the gridiron. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. gredil, gredl, gridel, of Celtic origin; cf. W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I burn, scorch. Cf. Gridiron. ] 1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Grided; p. pr. & vb. n. Griding. ] [ For gird, properly, to strike with a rod. See Yard a measure, and cf. Grid to strike, sneer. ] To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]