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▪ I. † gry, n. Obs.
[a. L. gry (in Plautus Most. i. iii. 67 where recent edd. have γρῦ), a. Gr. γρῦ occurring in the phrase οὐδὲ γρῦ, and explained by the lexicographers as meaning (1) the grunt of a pig, (2) the dirt under the nail; hence the veriest trifle.]
The smallest unit in Locke's proposed decimal system of linear measurement, being the tenth of a line, the hundredth of an inch, and the thousandth of a (‘philosophical’) foot.
[1623W. Sclater Tythes 148 To this you ne gry; you loue to euade, not to answere.] 1679Locke Let. to Boyle B.'s Wks. 1772 VI. 541 The longest..was three inches and nine grys long, and one inch seven lines in girt. 1690― Hum. Underst. iv. x. §10 A Globe, Cube, Cone, Prism, Cylinder, &c., whose Diameters are but 1000000th part of a Gry. 1813E. S. Barrett Heroine (1815) To Rdr. xiv, The work has every fault which must convict it..but which will leave it not the ninety-ninth part of a gry the worse.
▪ II. † gry, v. Obs.—1
intr. ? To rage, roar.
1594Carew Tasso ii. (1881) 34 The hearing this doth force the Tyrant gry, With threatfull sound. |