<B>grifter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a person who operates a wheel of chance or similar device, as at a fair, amusement park, or circus. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=swindler.</B> </DL>
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<B>grig, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a small or young eel. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=cricket.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=grasshopper.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>a cheerful, lively person. </DL>
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<B>Grignard reagent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a class of reagents derived from the union of magnesium with an organic radical and a halogen, important in organic synthesis. </DL>
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<B>grigri</B> (1), noun. <B>=greegree.</B></DL>
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<B>grigri</B> (2), noun. <B>=grugru.</B></DL>
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<B>Grihastha, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Brahman in the second stage of his religious life. </DL>
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<B>grike, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a crevice; chink. <DD><B> 2. </B>a ravine on the side of a hill. </DL>
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<B>grill</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a framework of parallel iron bars for broiling; gridiron. It is used to hold meat or fish. <DD><B> 2. </B>a dish of broiled meat or fish. <BR> <I>Ex. We ate a mixed grill of bacon, lamb chop, and sausage.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a dining room in a hotel or restaurant that specializes in serving broiled meat or fish; grillroom. <BR> <I>Ex. We went to the member's grill for lunch.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the act of grilling. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cook by holding near the fire; broil. <BR> <I>Ex. The campers grilled hamburgers for dinner.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to torment with heat. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to question severely and persistently. <BR> <I>Ex. The detectives grilled the prisoner until he confessed.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be broiled. <DD><B> 2. </B>to be tortured by heat. </DL>
<B>grillade, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> steak or other piece of meat broiled or grilled. </DL>
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<B>grillage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a heavy framework of crossed timbers or steel beams, used for foundations in soft, treacherous soils, swamps, and the like. </DL>
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<B>grille, </B>noun, verb, <B>grilled,</B> <B>grilling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an open, metal structure or screen, used as a gate, door, or window or to cover the opening in front of the radiator of an automobile; grating. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in court tennis) a square-shaped opening in the corner of the back wall on the hazard side of the court, one of the three winning openings. <DD><B> 3. </B>a card with holes in it, used to place over a sheet of paper and write a secret message in the holes, then filling in the rest of the paper to look like an ordinary letter. <DD><B> 4. </B>a rectangular pattern of small dots on some issues of postage stamps. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to fit with a grille or grating. <DD><B> 2. </B>to impress (postage stamps) with a grille. </DL>
<B>grilled</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> furnished with a grille. </DL>
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<B>griller, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that grills; broiler. </DL>
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<B>grillework, </B>noun. <B>=grillwork.</B></DL>
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<B>grillroom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a restaurant or dining room that specializes in serving broiled meat or fish; grill. </DL>
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<B>grillwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a grille or a pattern of grilles. <BR> <I>Ex. The rear ends of new cars are fancier than the grillwork in front (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>grilse, </B>noun, pl. <B>grilse.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a young salmon that has returned from the sea to the river for the first time. </DL>
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<B>grim, </B>adjective, <B>grimmer,</B> <B>grimmest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>without mercy; stern, harsh, or fierce. <BR> <I>Ex. grim, stormy weather.</I> (SYN) cruel, merciless. <DD><B> 2. </B>not yielding; not relenting. <BR> <I>Ex. The losing team fought on with grim resolve.</I> (SYN) relentless, unyielding. <DD><B> 3. </B>looking stern, fierce, or harsh. <BR> <I>Ex. Father was grim when he heard about the six broken windows.</I> (SYN) hard, forbidding, severe. <DD><B> 4. </B>horrible; frightful; ghastly. <BR> <I>Ex. ... grim jokes about graves, worms and epitaphs (Thomas Love Peacock).</I> adv. <B>grimly.</B> noun <B>grimness.</B> </DL>
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<B>grimace, </B>noun, verb, <B>-maced,</B> <B>-macing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a twisting of the face; ugly or funny smile. <BR> <I>Ex. a grimace caused by pain.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make faces. <BR> <I>Ex. The clown grimaced at the children.</I> </DL>
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<B>grimacer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who makes grimaces or distorts his face. </DL>
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<B>grimalkin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a cat. <DD><B> 2. </B>an old female cat. <BR> <I>Ex. A strange grimalkin ... clambered hastily over the fence and vanished (Hawthorne).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a spiteful old woman. </DL>
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<B>grime, </B>noun, verb, <B>grimed,</B> <B>griming.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> dirt rubbed deeply and firmly into a surface. <BR> <I>Ex. Soap and water removed only a little of the grime on the coal miner's hands.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make very dirty; cover with grime. <BR> <I>Ex. Ceilings and walls were grimed with smoke (Woman's Day).</I> (SYN) blacken, befoul. </DL>
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<B>Grimes Golden,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a yellow autumn eating apple. </DL>
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<B>Grimm alfalfa,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a winter-hardy variety of alfalfa, grown extensively in the northern United States. </DL>
<B>Grimm's law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Linguistics.) a statement of the systematic changes in certain Indo-European consonants that took place in the Germanic languages and were carried still further in High German, as seen in the correspondences between the Germanic consonants and those in the other Indo-European languages in cognate words. For example, where Latin has <I>p,</I> English has <I>f:</I> Latin <I>pater,</I> English <I>father;</I> where Latin has <I>d,</I> English has <I>t</I> and High German has <I>ts</I> (spelled <I>z</I>) initially: Latin <I>decem,</I> English <I>ten,</I> High German <I>zehn.</I> Most of the changes were noted by Rasmus Rask in 1818 and a full statement of them was made by Jacob Grimm in 1822. </DL>
<B>grim reaper,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> death personified, usually as a man holding a scythe. <BR> <I>Ex. Out of a company of thirty, seven of our brother argonauts were taken by the grim reaper (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<B>grin</B> (1), verb, <B>grinned,</B> <B>grinning,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to smile broadly. <BR> <I>Ex. He soon breaks training by thrusting a cigar into his toothy and perpetually grinning mouth (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to draw back the lips and show the teeth in anger, pain, or scorn. <BR> <I>Ex. The wolf grinned in an ugly way. A snarling dog grins.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to show, make, or express by smiling broadly. <BR> <I>Ex. She grinned approval.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a broad smile. <BR> <I>Ex. The happy new father wore a grin from ear to ear.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an act of showing the teeth in anger, pain, or scorn. noun <B>grinner.</B> adv. <B>grinningly.</B> </DL>
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<B>grin</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) a snare for catching birds or animals, made of cord, hair, wire, or the like, with a running noose. </DL>
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<B>Grinch</B> or <B>grinch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a person or thing that spoils the enjoyment or plans of others; spoilsport; killjoy. <BR> <I>Ex. No print-medium Grinch is arguing that humor aimed at the young doesn't have a place in the video spectrum (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
