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n. [ AS. crecca; akin to D. kreek, Icel. kriki crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek. Cf. Crick, Crook. ] 1. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

They discovered a certain creek, with a shore. Acts xxvii. 39. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any turn or winding. [ 1913 Webster ]

The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The chub sucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Creek. (Ethnol.) A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. “The creeky shore.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. faenum Graecum, lit., Greek hay: cf. F. fenugrec. Cf. Fennel. ] (Bot.) A plant (trigonella Fœnum Græcum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are “now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay.” J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf. Grecian. ] Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. [ 1913 Webster ]

Greek calends. See under Greek calends in the vocabulary. --
Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church. --
Greek cross. See Illust. (10) Of Cross. --
Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire. --
Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. Ure. --
Greek rose, the flower campion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek. Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. 1. Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows: 1. Hecatombæon (July-Aug.).
2. Metageitnion (Aug.-Sept.).
3. Boëdromion (Sept.-Oct.).
4. Pyanepsion (Oct.-Nov.).
5. Mæmacterion (Nov.-Dec.).
6. Poseideon (Dec.-Jan.).
7. Gamelion (Jan.-Feb.).
8. Anthesterion (Feb.-Mar.).
9. Elaphebolion (Mar.-Apr.).
10. Munychion (Apr.-May).
11. Thargelion (May-June).
12. Scirophorion (June-July). A fixed relation to the seasons was maintained by introducing an intercalary month, “the second Poseideon, ” at first in an inexact way, afterward in years 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 19 of the Metonic cycle. Dates were reckoned in Olympiads. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The Julian calendar, used in the Greek Church. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A female Greek. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. AS. Grēcisc. ] Peculiar to Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

or . A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks; as, greeklike struggles.
Syn. -- grecian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a body of French painters (F. les néo-Grecs) of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A rick. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. rēc; akin to OFries. rēk, LG. & D. rook, G. rauch, OHG. rouh, Dan. rög, Sw. rök, Icel. reykr, and to AS. reócan to reek, smoke, Icel. rjūka, G. riechen to smell. ] Vapor; steam; smoke; fume. [ 1913 Webster ]

As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Reeked p. pr. & vb. n. Reeking. ] [ As. rēcan. See Reek vapor. ] To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

I found me laid
In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun
Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From 2d Reek; cf. Reechy. ] 1. Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Emitting reek. “Reeky fen.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]