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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



... hot iron. He does wrong without any remorse; he disobeys the express commands of God, without any misgivings or self-reproach. He is "alive, without the law,"-as St. Paul expresses it. His eyes stand out with fatness; and his heart, in the Psalmist's phrase, "is as fat as grease" (Ps. cxix. 70). There is no religious sensibility in him. His sin is a pleasure to him without any mixture of sorrow, because unattended by any remorse of conscience. He is receiving his "good things" in this life. His days pass by without any moral anxiety, and perchance ...
— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd

... sheep and goat was evermore The cavern filled, the numerous flock's increase, Which served her and her household as a store; And from the ceiling dangled many a fleece. The dame made Norandino from a hoar And huge he-goat's fat bowels take the grease, And with the suet all his members pay, Until he drove his natural ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto

... beneath his thick layer of grease and grime, was really a very cute customer, with taste and scent for good painting. He never wasted his time or lost his way among mere daubers; he went straight, as if from instinct, to individualists, whose talent was contested still, but whose future fame his flaming, drunkard's ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola

... the tubes; scald them, drain, and cut them into thin slices. Put the butter into a saucepan, add the kidneys, toss until the kidneys are cooked, then add the flour, stock, kitchen bouquet, salt and pepper; stir until boiling. Grease a shallow granite or silver platter, break into it the eggs, sprinkle over the bread crumbs and stand them in the oven until the eggs are "set," then pour over the sauce, arrange the kidneys around the edge of the dish and send at once to ...
— Many Ways for Cooking Eggs • Mrs. S.T. Rorer

... passing through a little settlement we could buy dried herring, crackers, gum arabic, and slippery elm; the latter, we were told, was very nutritious. We frequently sat down to a table with bacon floating in grease, coffee without milk, sweetened with sorghum, and bread or hot biscuit, green with soda, while vegetables and fruit were seldom seen. Our nights were miserable, owing to the general opinion among pioneers that a certain species of insect must necessarily ...
— Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton


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