Grease
[griːs] or [gris]
Definition
(noun.) a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery).
(verb.) lubricate with grease; 'grease the wheels'.
Editor: Sasha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.
(v. t.) To bribe; to corrupt with presents.
(v. t.) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
(v. t.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
Typed by Andy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Unctuous matter (lard, tallow, &c.).[2]. (Farriery.) Scratches.
v. a. [1]. Smear with grease.[2]. Bribe, give a douceur to.
Typist: Tito
Definition
n. soft thick animal fat: oily matter of any kind: an inflammation in the heels of a horse marked by swelling &c.—v.t. (sometimes pron. grēz) to smear with grease to lubricate—also used figuratively to cause to go easily: (obs.) to bribe—as in to 'grease the palm.'—adv. Greas′ily.—n. Greas′iness.—adj. Greas′y of or like grease or oil: smeared with grease: smooth: fat.
Edited by Ethelred
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream you are in grease, is significant of travels being enjoyed with disagreeable but polished strangers.
Checked by Helena
Examples
- They smelled cleanly of oil and grease. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The floors of the entire plant are scrubbed at least once a week, with hot water and a strong solution of alkali, which removes the grease. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Laws, it's my har _grease_;--I put it thar to have it handy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thoroughly clean the article from all grease and dirt (see polishing preparations, page 12), and apply with a soft rag or brush and polish with a chamois skin. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- We'll change the oil, grease them, fill them up, then take them around in front and load up the junk they've left. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It is a small room, nearly black with soot, and grease, and dirt. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He rode his own horse, Greased Lightning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then the cook baked a broad, flat, wheaten cake, greased it well with the sausage, and started towards us with it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Beg your pardon, sir,' said Sam, when he had concluded, 'but wen I gets on this here grievance, I runs on like a new barrow with the wheel greased. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Inside the sawmill one of the soldiers was sitting on his bunk and greasing his boots. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I had the tallow of three hundred cows, for greasing my boat, and other uses. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Aunt Dinah greases her wool stiff, every day, to make it lie straight, said Jane. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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