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Graze, n. 1. The act of grazing; the cropping of grass. [Colloq.]

Turning him out for a graze on the common.

T. Hughes.

2. A light touch; a slight scratch.

Graz"er (?), n. One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.

The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want.

J. Philips.

Gra"zier (?), n. One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market.

The inhabitants be rather . . . graziers than plowmen.

Stow.

Graz"ing (?), n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, grazes.

2. A pasture; growing grass.

||Gra"zi*o"so (?), adv. [It., adj. See Gracious.] (Mus.) Gracefully; ||smoothly; elegantly.

Gre (?), n. See Gree, a step. [Obs.]

Gre, n. See Gree, good will. [Obs.]

Grease (grs), n. [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.) 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 (Zoˆl.), 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 (grz or grs; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greased (grzd or grsd); 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. (Far.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

To grease in the hand, to corrupt by bribes. Usher.

Greas"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.

2. A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type. [Low, U. S.]