grin
(verb) to draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl
Source: WordNet® 3.1
grinned
simple past tense and past participle of grin
• derning, rending
Source: Wiktionary
Grin, n. Etym: [AS. grin.]
Definition: A snare; a gin. [Obs.] Like a bird that hasteth to his grin. Remedy of Love.
Grin, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Grinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Grinning.] Etym: [OE. grinnen, grennen, AS. grennian, Sw. grina; akin to D. grijnen, G. greinen, OHG. grinan, Dan. grine. Groan.]
1. To show the teeth, as a dog; to shsrl.
2. To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, acorn, or pain. The pangs of death do make him grin. Shak.
Grin, v. t.
Definition: To express by grinning. Grinned horrible a ghastly smile.Milton.
Grin, n.
Definition: The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or smeering smile. I.Watts. He showed twenty teeth at a grin. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 May 2024
(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception; “Fudge the figures”; “cook the books”; “falsify the data”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
