n. The genus of trees including the anchovy pear tree Grias cauliflora, whose fruit is somewhat like the mango.
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.
n. See Gree, a step. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. [ OE. gredil, gredl, gridel, of Celtic origin; cf. W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I burn, scorch. Cf. Gridiron. ]
n. A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating. [ 1913 Webster ]
The gride of hatchets fiercely thrown.
On wigwam log, and tree, and stone. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. gris de lin gray of flax, flax gray. ] A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet.