Part 4980

<syn>Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible; frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen; sour.</syn>

<h1>Grimace</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Gri*mace"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. AS. <ets>gr<?/ma</ets> mask, specter, Ical. <ets>gr<?/ma</ets> mask, hood, perh. akin to E. <ets>grin</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; "Half the French words used affectedly by Melantha in Dryden's "<i>Marriage a-la-Mode</i>," as innovations in our language, are now in common usa: <i>chagrin</i>, <i>double</i>--<i>entendre</i>, <i>\'82claircissement</i>, <i>embarras</i>, <i>\'82quivoque</i>, <i>foible</i>, <i>grimace</i>, <i>na\'8bvete</i>, <i>ridicule</i>. All these words, which she learns by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use."</note>

<i>I. Disraeli. </i>

<h1>Grimace</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Gri*mace"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.</def>

<i>H. Martineau.</i>

<h1>Grimaced</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Gri*maced"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Distorted; crabbed.</def>

<h1>Grimalkin</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Gri*mal"kin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[For graymalkin; <ets>gray + malkin</ets>.]</ety> <def>An old cat, esp. a she-cat.</def>

<i>J. Philips. </i>

<h1>Grime</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Grime</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Dan. grim, griim, lampblack, soot, grime, Icel. <ets>gr<?/ma</ets> mask, sort of hood, OD. <ets>grijmsel</ets>, <ets>grimsel</ets>, soot, smut, and E. <ets>grimace</ets>.]</ety> <def>Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.</def>

<h1>Grime</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Grime</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Grimily</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Grim"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a grimy manner.</def>

<h1>Griminess</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Grim"i*ness</hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being grimy.</def>

<h1>Grimly</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Grim"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Grim; hideous; stern.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>In glided Margaret's <b>grimly</b> ghost, And stood at William's feet. <i>D. Mallet. </i></blockquote>

<h1>Grimly</h1> <Xpage=651>

<hw>Grim"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a grim manner; fiercely.</def>