Part 135

Grif"fon (grf"fn), n. [F.] One of a European breed of rough-coated dogs, somewhat taller than the setter and of a grizzly liver color. They are used in hunt game birds. The Brussels griffon is a very small, wiry- coated, short-nosed pet dog of Belgian origin.

Grill (?), n. 1. A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.

2. A grillroom.

Grill, v. t. To stamp or mark with a grill.

Grill, v. i. To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.

He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains.

Kipling.

Grill"room` (?), n. A room specially fitted for broiling food, esp. one in a restaurant, hotel, or club&?;house, arranged for prompt service.

Grin"go (?), n. [Amer. Sp., fr. Sp. gringo gibberish; cf. griego Greek, F. grigou wretch.] Among Spanish Americans, a foreigner, esp. an Englishman or American; -- often used as a term of reproach.

Grip, n. 1. Specif., an apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.

2. A gripsack; a hand bag; a satchel. [Colloq.]

3. (Med.) The influenza; grippe.

Grip car. A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.

Griz"zle (?), v. t. & i. To make or become grizzly, or grayish.

Hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children.

R. F. Burton.

I foundgrizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey.

Pall Mall Mag.

Griz"zle, v. i. & t. [Etym. uncertain.] To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble. [Prov. Eng.] " Don't sit grizzling there." Charles Reade.

Gro"bi*an (?), n. [G., fr. grob rude. Cf. Gruff, a.] A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.

Gro"lier` (?), n. The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc.

Grolier binding, a book binding decorated with a pattern imitated from those given covers of books bound for Jean Grolier, and bearing his name and motto. -- Grolier design or school, the pattern of interlacing bars, bands, or ribbons, with little scrolls of slender gold lines, assumed to be an imitation of the designs on Jean Grolier's book bindings.

Gro*tesqu"er*y (?), n. [Written also grotesquerie.] [From Grotesque.] Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates.

Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter.

George Gissing.

Grun"dy*ism (?), n. Narrow and unintelligent conventionalism. -- Grun"dy*ist, n.

Guai"a*col (?), n. [Guaiacum + -ol.] (Chem.) A colorless liquid, C7H8O2, with a peculiar odor. It is the methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.

Guest, n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. (b) An inquiline.