<B>grey area,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a geographical area showing low employment but not poor enough to qualify for special government assistance. <BR> <I>Ex. Towns in the Lancashire coal and cotton belt [are] frequently referred to as grey areas (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="greycup">
<B>Grey Cup,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a Canadian football trophy awarded annually to the champion team of the two Canadian Football League conferences. <DD><B> 2. </B>the game played to choose the champion team. </DL>
<A NAME="greyhound">
<B>greyhound, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of a breed of tall, slender hunting dogs with long noses. Greyhounds have a smooth coat and very good eyesight. Dog races often feature greyhounds, the fastest of all dogs. <DD><B> 2. </B>a fast steamship, especially an ocean liner. Also, <B>grayhound.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="greys">
<B>greys, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) persons wearing gray military uniforms, such as the Scots Greys, a regiment of dragoons. </DL>
<A NAME="gribble">
<B>gribble, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, marine crustacean with seven pairs of legs, that bores into submerged timbers. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of certain related sea animals. </DL>
<A NAME="grid">
<B>grid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a framework of parallel iron bars with spaces between them; grating; gridiron. <DD><B> 2. </B>the lead plate in a storage battery. <DD><B> 3. </B>the electrode in a vacuum tube that controls the flow of electrons between the cathode and the anode. It usually consists of parallel wires, a screen, or a spiral of wire. <DD><B> 4. </B>a network of electric lines and connections. <BR> <I>Ex. the national power grid.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>an arrangement of vertical and horizontal lines to determine the coordinates of given points or to locate points for which the coordinates are known. <DD><B> 6. </B>the numbered squares drawn on maps and used for map references. <DD><B> 7. </B>a football field. <DD><B> 8. </B>a gridiron in a theater. </DL>
<A NAME="gridcircuit">
<B>grid circuit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the part of the circuit in a vacuum tube that includes the grid and cathode. </DL>
<A NAME="gridcondenser">
<B>grid condenser,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a condenser in a vacuum tube connected in series with the grid circuit. </DL>
<A NAME="gridcurrent">
<B>grid current,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the current flowing in a vacuum tube between the grid and the cathode. </DL>
<A NAME="gridded">
<B>gridded, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> consisting of a grid. </DL>
<A NAME="gridder">
<B>gridder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a football player. </DL>
<A NAME="griddle">
<B>griddle, </B>noun, verb, <B>-dled,</B> <B>-dling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a heavy, flat plate of metal or soapstone, on which to cook pancakes, bacon, hamburgers, and similar foods. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to cook on a griddle. <BR><I>expr. <B>on the griddle,</B> </I>(Informal.) in a position to be grilled or interrogated; submitting to inquiry. <BR> <I>Ex. We had Orbuthnot on the griddle when we heard Mrs. Ives call him "Jamie" (Punch).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="griddlecake">
<B>griddlecake, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a thin, flat cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake. </DL>
<A NAME="gride">
<B>gride, </B>verb, <B>grided,</B> <B>griding,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to grate or scrape harshly. <DD><B> 2. </B>to pierce or cut. <BR> <I>Ex. Through his thigh the mortal steel did gride (Edmund Spenser).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a griding or grating sound. <BR> <I>Ex. The gride of hatchets fiercely thrown on wigwam-log and tree and stone (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gridiron">
<B>gridiron, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a framework of parallel iron bars or wires for broiling, usually with a handle. <DD><B> 2. </B>any frame or structure like this, such as a frame for supporting a ship that is being repaired. <DD><B> 3. </B>a football field. <DD><B> 4. </B>a structure above the stage of a theater, from which scenery is manipulated; grid. <DD><B> 5. </B>a network of pipes, lines, etc. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to mark with parallel bars or lines like those of a gridiron. </DL>
<A NAME="gridleak">
<B>grid leak,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a device of very high resistance used in a vacuum tube to permit excess current to escape from the grid. </DL>
<A NAME="gridline">
<B>grid line,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the meridians and parallels marked on a map. </DL>
<A NAME="gridlock">
<B>gridlock, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a complete stoppage of all vehicular traffic on crossing streets in a given area of a city. <DD><B> 2. </B>any complete stoppage of activity due to overcrowding. <BR> <I>Ex. jammed in telephone gridlock with everyone on the phone and no one getting through (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to subject to a gridlock. <BR> <I>Ex. The phones were also gridlocked at Stanford, in Palo Alto (Rolling Stone).</I> adj. <B>gridlocked.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="grief">
<B>grief, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>great sadness caused by trouble or loss; heavy sorrow. (SYN) anguish, heartache. <DD><B> 2. </B>a cause or subject of sadness or sorrow. <BR> <I>Ex. A foolish son is a grief to his father (Proverbs 17:25).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) hardship, suffering, injury, or a cause of these. <BR><I>expr. <B>come to grief,</B> </I>to have trouble; fail. <BR> <I>Ex. Since the book is a comedy, nobody comes to grief (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>good grief,</B> </I>an exclamation of alarm or surprise (now often used for humorous effect). <BR> <I>Ex. Good grief, it's nothing like that ... (Punch).</I> adj. <B>griefless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="griefstricken">
<B>grief-stricken, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> stricken with grief or sorrow. </DL>
<A NAME="griefworn">
<B>grief-worn, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> exhausted or worn by grief. </DL>
<A NAME="grieshoch">
<B>grieshoch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) hot embers, especially of peat. </DL>
<A NAME="grievance">
<B>grievance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a real or imagined wrong; reason for being annoyed or angry; cause for complaint. <BR> <I>Ex. The captain told his men to report any grievance to him.</I> (SYN) injustice, injury. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) suffering, distress, or trouble, or a cause of these. </DL>
<A NAME="grievancecommittee">
<B>grievance committee,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a committee composed of union or both union and management representatives to discuss and remedy grievances. </DL>
<A NAME="grieve">
<B>grieve, </B>verb, <B>grieved,</B> <B>grieving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to feel grief; be very sad; sorrow deeply. <BR> <I>Ex. The little girl grieved over her kitten's death.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cause to feel grief; make very sad; afflict. <BR> <I>Ex. His bad behavior grieved his parents.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) to do wrong, hurt, or harm to. <BR> <I>Ex. He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men (Lamentations 3:33).</I> noun <B>griever.</B> adv. <B>grievingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="grievous">
<B>grievous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>hard to bear; causing great pain or suffering; severe. <BR> <I>Ex. grievous cruelty.</I> (SYN) distressing. <DD><B> 2. </B>very evil or offensive; outrageous; flagrant; atrocious. <BR> <I>Ex. Murder is a grievous crime in most societies. Wasting food when people were starving was a grievous wrong. It was a grievous fault And grievously hath Caesar answered it (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) heinous. <DD><B> 3. </B>causing grief. <BR> <I>Ex. a grievous loss.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>full of grief; showing grief. <BR> <I>Ex. a grevious cry.</I> adv. <B>grievously.</B> noun <B>grievousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="griff">
<B>griff</B> (1), noun. <B>=claw.</B></DL>
<A NAME="griff">
<B>griff</B> (2), noun. <B>=griffe</B> (1).</DL>
<A NAME="griff">
<B>griff</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a frame composed of horizontal bars, used in weaving patterns. Also, <B>griffe.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="griff">
<B>griff</B> (4), noun. <B>=griffin</B> (2).</DL>
<A NAME="griffe">
<B>griffe</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Dialect.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the offspring of a Black and a mulatto. <DD><B> 2. </B>a mulatto. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person of mixed Black and American Indian parentage. Also, <B>griff,</B> <B>griffin.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="griffe">
<B>griffe</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a medieval architectural ornament used on the base of a column to connect each angle of the plinth with the torus. </DL>
<A NAME="griffe">
<B>griffe</B> (3), noun. <B>=griff</B> (3).</DL>
<A NAME="griffin">
<B>griffin</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) a creature with the head, wings, and forelegs of an eagle, and the body, hind legs, and tail of a lion. Also, <B>griffon,</B> <B>gryphon.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="griffin">
<B>griffin</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white person new to India or the East; newcomer; greenhorn. Also, <B>griff.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="griffin">
<B>griffin</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Dialect.) a griffe (1). </DL>
<A NAME="griffinage">
<B>griffinage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being a griffin, or newcomer to India. </DL>
<B>griffon</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=griffin</B> (1). <DD><B> 2. </B>Also, <B>griffon vulture.</B> a very large vulture of Asia, southern Europe and Africa. </DL>
<A NAME="griffon">
<B>griffon</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a breed of small, sturdy, rough or smooth-coated dogs developed in Belgium and weighing 8 to 10 pounds. <DD><B> 2. </B>the wire-haired, pointing griffon, a medium-sized hunting dog with a rough coat. </DL>
