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Grin"ner (?), n. One who grins. Addison.

Grin"ning*ly, adv. In a grinning manner.

Grint (?), 3d pers. sing. pres. of Grind, contr. from grindeth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Grin"te (?), obs. imp. of Grin, v. i., 1.

grinte with his teeth, so was he wroth.

Chaucer.

Grint"ing (?), n. Grinding. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Grip (?), n. [L. gryps, gryphus. See Griffin, Grype.] (Zoˆl.) The griffin. [Obs.]

Grip, n. [Cf. AS. grip furrow, hitch, D. greb.] A small ditch or furrow. Ray.

Grip, v. t. To trench; to drain.

Grip, n. [AS. gripe. Cf. Grip, v. t., Gripe, v. t.] 1. An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.

2. A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.

3. That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.

4. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

Grip, v. t. [From Grip a grasp; or P. gripper to seize; -- of German origin. See Gripe, v. t.] To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

Gripe (?), n. [See Grype.] (Zoˆl.) A vulture; the griffin. [Obs.]

Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.

Shak.

Gripe's egg, an alchemist's vessel. [Obs.] E. Jonson.

Gripe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Griped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Griping.] [AS. gripan; akin to D. grijpen, G. greifen, OHG. gr&?;fan, Icel. gripa, Sw. gripe, Dan. gribe, Goth. greipan; cf. Lith. graibyti, Russ. grabite to plunder, Skr. grah, grabh, to seize. Cf. Grip, v. t., Grope.]

1. To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.

2. To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.

Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure ?

Robynson (More's Utopia).

3. To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.

How inly sorrow gripes his soul.

Shak.

Gripe, v. i. 1. To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.