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GREASE
dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grunge
(noun) the state of being covered with unclean things
grease, lubricating oil
(noun) a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
grease
(verb) lubricate with grease; “grease the wheels”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
grease (countable and uncountable, plural greases)
Animal fat in a melted or soft state
(extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
Synonyms
• (animal fat): fat, lard
Verb
grease (third-person singular simple present greases, present participle greasing, simple past and past participle greased)
(transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
(transitive, informal) To bribe.
(transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
(transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
(transitive, slang) To kill, murder.
(obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
Synonyms
• (put grease or fat on): lard
• (slang for kill or murder): bump off, hit, whack
Anagrams
• Eagers, Saeger, Seager, aegers, agrees, eagers, eagres, geares, searge, ægers
Source: Wiktionary
Grease (gres), n. Etym: [OE. grese, grece, F. graisse; akin to gras fat, greasy, fr. LL. grassus thick, fat, gross, L. crassus. Cf. Crass.]
1. Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
2. (Far.)
Definition: 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 (Zoöl.), 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.
Grease, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greased (grezd or gresd); p. pr. & vb. n. 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. Dryden.
3. To cheat or cozen; to overreach. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
4. (Ear.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. To grease in the hand, to corrupt by bribes. Usher.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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