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▪ I. grime, n.|graɪm|
[= mod. Flemish grijm in the same sense (Kilian has grijmsel): cf. grime v.]
Soot, smut, coal-dust, or other black particles, deposited upon or ingrained in some surface, esp. the human skin.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. iii. ii. 106 She sweats a man may goe ouer-shooes in the grime of it. 1612W. Parkes Curtaine-Dr. (1876) 24 Now will he..note it deepe with a pen of brasse, with the blackest grime and colour that can be deuised. 1728Woodward Cat. Fossils II. 3 Collow is the word by which they denote black Grime of burnt Coals or Wood. 1740Somerville Hobbinol iii. 179 Her Legs un⁓clean, Booted with Grime. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iv. 4 A wretched old kettle..consisting mainly now of foul grime and dust. 1870Bryant Iliad I. x. 330 Descending to the sea They washed from knees and neck and thighs the grime Of sweat. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Grime, the black ashes upon wood which are in a state between soot and charcoal. Any black smudge is called a grime mark. Lignite, or wood coal, is sometimes called grime.
fig.1719De Foe Crusoe ii. xvi. (1840) 324 The dirt and grime of human affairs. 1899H. Wright Depopulation 109 He forgot all the squalor of monotony, and the grime of grinding circumstances by which human life was surrounded.
▪ II. grime, v.|graɪm|
Also 5 Sc. grymme.
[Cf. mod. Flemish grijmen, Fris. griemjen, LG. gremen, grêmen to blacken, dirty; a. MDu. *grimen is assumed by Verwijs and Verdam. Cf. also begremen, -griemen (Kilian), to begrime.]
trans. To cover with grime, to blacken, befoul. Also fig. to grime the face of. (Cf. begrime.)
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. xi. (Wolf & Sheep) xvi, Than quhair the gait was grymmit he him brocht. 1483Cath. Angl. 165/2 To Grime, fuscare, fuliginare. a1592H. Smith Wks. (1866–7) I. 62 He seemeth like a collier which is grimed with his own coals. 1601Dent Pathw. Heaven 67 The Apostle laieth out the great danger of this sinne [covetousness], and doth exceedingly grime the face of it. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. iii. 9 My face Ile grime with filth. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 237 Vulcan pour'd Nectar himself, and his own fingers scour'd, Grim'd in his Liparene work-house. 1730Swift Lady's Dressing-Room 46 The Towels..With Dirt, and Sweat, and Ear-wax grim'd. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) viii. ii, Letting your book fall into the ashes, so as to..rumple and grime the leaves. 1878H. Phillips Poems fr. Sp. & Germ. 18 A rudely cut inscription Grimed with dust of many a year.
†b. To smear, anoint. Obs. rare—1.
c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears Epil. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. (1897), With amber greece he must be grymde, and such lyke costly geare.
▪ III. grime
obs. form of grim. |