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Grease   /gris/   Listen
noun
Grease  n.  
1.
Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
2.
(Far.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences.
Grease bush. (Bot.) Same as Grease wood (below).
Grease moth (Zool.), a pyralid moth (Aglossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc.
Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The name is also applied to other plants of the same family, as several species of Atriplex and Obione.


verb
Grease  v. t.  (past & past part. greased; pres. part. greasing)  
1.
To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.
2.
To bribe; to corrupt with presents. "The greased advocate that grinds the poor."
3.
To cheat or cozen; to overreach. (Obs.)
4.
(Far.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
To grease in the hand, To grease the hand, to corrupt by bribes.





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"Grease" Quotes from Famous Books



... hungry Roaches was satisfied, and, according to Neale's report, the dinner went off very well indeed, save that his mother feared she would have to grease and roll Patrick Sarsfield before the fire to keep him from bursting, he ate ...
— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill
... to thank his new friend and no more. He held out his hand to him, forgetful of the grease that had so often driven him from the pavement to the street. The butcher gave it a squeeze that nearly shot it out of his lubricated grasp, and they parted, both ...
— Paul Faber, Surgeon • George MacDonald
... arrayed in a bottle-green coat, scarlet waistcoat, pink necktie, blue trousers, white hat, purple gloves and yellow boots! If it were not for the fact that he wears his clothes a very long time and never has them brushed or the grease spots taken out, the effect would be almost painful. But he selects his colours, whereas the poor little boy probably had no choice in ...
— A Traveller in Little Things • W. H. Hudson
... specially acceptable. They had meantime managed to marry the fellow to a woman nearly twice his age, comparatively well off: the only profession he was really fit for. But it was not all cakes and ale. The first time I called on the couple she spied a little spot of grease on the poor devil's pantaloons and made him a screaming scene of reproaches so full of sincere passion that I sat terrified as ...
— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad
... affection to their comrades. Lichtenstein has a most touching story about a Bushman, nearly drowned in a river, who was rescued by his companions. They took off their furs to cover him, and shivered themselves; they dried him, rubbed him before the fire, and smeared his body with warm grease till they brought him back to life. And when the Bushmen found, in Johan van der Walt, a man who treated them well, they expressed their thankfulness by a most touching attachment to that man.(12) Burchell and Moffat both represent them as goodhearted, ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin


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