GRIMACES

Noun

grimaces

plural of grimace

Verb

grimaces

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grimace

Anagrams

• Græcism, Megarics, graecism, misgrace

Source: Wiktionary

GRIMACE

Gri*mace", n. Etym: [F., prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. AS. gr mask, specter, Ical. gr mask, hood, perh. akin to E. grin.]

Definition: A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.

Note: "Half the French words used affectedly by Melantha in Dryden's "Marriage a-la-Mode," as innovations in our language, are now in common usa: chagrin, double--entendre, éclaircissement, embarras, équivoque, foible, grimace, naïvete, ridicule. All these words, which she learns by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use." I. Disraeli.

Gri*mace", v. i.

Definition: To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. H. Martineau.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition