† Grewn.1adj.
Obsolete. (After 15th cent. chiefly Scottish)
A. n.1
1. The Greek language, Greek.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [noun]
Greeklandc1000
Grewc1275
Greekdom1843
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek
Greekishc1050
Grewc1275
Greeka1400
Hellenic1741
c1275 Passion our Lord 470 in Old Eng. Misc. 50 Hit wes iwryten on ebreu, on gryv, and latyn.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 245 Þey torned Holy Writte out of Ebrew in to Grewe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16689 Of hebru, gru, and latine.
a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 36 in Poems (1981) 133 The first, in Grew, was callit Euterpe.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 90 Thys worde Hympne ys a worde of grew.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 4 Thus was he cled, and with letteris of grew In fine Scriptour, I saw it writtin new.
2. A Greek.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece
Greekc893
Gregois13..
Griffon13..
Grewa1375
Hellene1482
Grecana1500
Argive?1532
Greciana1549
Hellenist1606
Greeklinga1637
Graecaster1716
Helladian1773
bubble and squeak1938
bubble1962
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2080 Þe grewes for gremþe ginneþ on me werre.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19740 Paulus..fast disputed wit þe gruus.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 180 If a man desiriþ for to haue blac heeris as doiþ greuis & spay~nardis, þanne make þis tincture.
3. The land of the Greeks, Greece.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 193 For Minerua in þe speche of Grewe hatte Athena.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 37 In the reigne of men of Grewe.
a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 15 in Poems (1981) 132 The grete lordis of Grewe.
B. adj.
Greek.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Greek
Greekishc900
Grewc1400
Greek1548
Grecanic1601
Grecanical1678
Helladian1773
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) x. 39 Writen in Grew lettres.
1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 91 Heresie, that is Grw, is divisioun on Latyn.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 114 Lyk as in Latyne bene Grew termes sum.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iv. 1 Strophades in Grew leid ar nemmit so, In the grete see standand ilis two.
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grewn.2
/ɡruː/, U.S. /ɡru/, Scottish English /ɡru/ Scottish and northern dialect.
A greyhound.
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1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 497 I..worry him as if I were a grew, and him a bit leveret.
1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) I. xxii.221 Five grews, and a wheen other dogs.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. 37 ‘What wad the grew be efter, but maukin?’ returned Miss Letty.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Grew, a greyhound.
Compounds
grew-bitch n.
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1814 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. Grew-bitch, a greyhound bitch. York.
grew-whelp n.
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c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. iv. f. 12v/1 He..maid lawis that grewquhelpis suld nocht lyne thair moderis.
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grewv.
/ɡruː/, U.S. /ɡru/, Scottish English /ɡru/ Scottish.
intransitive. To go coursing with greyhounds.
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1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxiii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 751 Thine too, skaitin', and curlin', and grewin'.
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