greasen.
/ɡriːs/, U.S. /ɡris/ a. The fat part of the body of an animal; also, corpulence, fatness. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > fat
sueta1325
greasea1340
tallowa1382
leaf?c1425
fat1539
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > state of having
fatnessc1000
greasea1340
corsiousnessc1440
fleshiness1541
plumpness1545
corporateness1547
fogginess1547
fleshliness1552
corpulency1577
corpulence1581
corsiness1587
fullness1599
obesity1611
pinguitude1623
obeseness1653
aletude1656
portliness1658
eventriqueness1667
rotundity1684
fat1726
rotundness1727
bloatedness1732
embonpoint1751
roundness1763
repleteness1770
plumpitude1828
corporosity1837
stoutness1838
crumb1843
plumptitude1843
roundedness1849
chubbiness1850
adiposeness1868
roundliness1870
buxomness1875
bloat1905
tubbiness1906
poundage1915
overweight1917
endomorphy1940
plumpishness1947
pudge1967
morbid obesity1969
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvi. 11 Bestis þat waxis iolife when þai ere ful of grese.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lvii. 173 The marowe of the bones is lyke to fatnesse or to greys.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. cxiii. 59 Thou art to fat and haste to miche grees vnder the wynge.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3838 Polidarius was..Full grete in the grippe, all of grese hoge.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Ciij Howe many maners of greas be there? Answere. Two. The one is withoutforth nere to the skynne, & that proprely is called adeps or fatnes. And ye other is inwarde & nyghe to the bely, & proprely is called auxunge or fat grease.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 246 Every Artificer must know..that he likewise must lose some grease and part with his grosse humors if ever he meaneth to be..strong.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 123 So he might take down our Grease and Luxury, and keep the English courage in breath and exercise.
b. Chiefly in Hunting. The fat of a boar, hare, hart, etc. in the time (also season) of grease: when the game is fat and fit to kill. in grease, in prime (also pride) of grease: fat and fit for killing; also transferred of a hawk or horse. deer of grease, goose of grease, hart of grease (see hart n. b), hen of grease, etc.: a fat deer, goose, etc.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting time > [adverb]
in the time (also season) of greasec1330
in season1473
of (the) seasonc1613
the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [adjective] > proper for hunting
pernablea1393
chaseable1393
in grease1607
in the time (also season) of grease1614
runnable1845
huntable1857
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 64 Whan Harald or þe kyng wild com þider eftsons In þe tyme of g [r] ese, to tak þam venysons.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 658 That nane werreye my wylde, botte Waynour hir seluene, And þat in þe sesone whene grees es assignyde.
c1440 Ipomydon (1889) 3571 A noble dere off gresse.
c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 409 Capon & hen of hawt grees þus wold þey be dight.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.vv Capon or henne of grece.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxvii. 217 I have termed their fatte, greace, & so is it to be called of all beastes which praye.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 400 Foundering commeth when a horse is heated, being in his grease and very fat.
1614 S. Latham Falconry i. xii. 42 When shee [sc. your Hawke] is in the prime of her grease, the least heat shee can take is all too much.
1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 176 The fat of a Boare and Hare is termed Greace.
c1650 Carle off Carlile (Percy) l. 64 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS (1868) III. 279 They gray hounds..drew downe the deere of grasse.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all iv. 42 Cram'd Capons, Pea-hens, Chickens in the grease.
1678 J. Ray Summary of Falconry v, in tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 409 There is a scurvy quality in some Hawks proceeding from pride of grease, or being high kept.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 188/1 Prime of his Grease [is] a term used to a Boar when he is full Fat.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Hounds For entring the Hound at a Hart or Buck, let him [sc. the Hart or Buck] be in prime of Grease.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xii. 168 The roe..never being in what is called pride of grease, he is also never out of season. View more context for this quotation
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 509 The harts are ‘in grease’ from August to the middle of October.
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c1440 Ipomydon (Kölbing) 370 Tomorrow..Loke ye be all redy dight..In the forest to take my grese.
d. Phrases (chiefly figurative), as to chafe, fret, fry, melt, stew, sweat in one's own grease (cf. fry v.1 3). to melt one's grease: to exhaust one's strength by violent efforts.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > exhaust one's strength or energy
to break one's back or necka1616
to melt one's grease1645
break1726
to run out of steam1836
to overdo it1853
to peg out1887
the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits > be left in the lurch > to suffer consequences of one's own actions
to chafe, fret, fry, melt, stew, sweat in one's own grease1663
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > be anxious [verb (intransitive)] > be acutely anxious
to be on (the) tenter(s1633
to chafe, fret, fry, melt, stew, sweat in one's own grease1663
to be on (the) tenterhooks1748
to be on heckle pins1850
sweat1963
13.. Coer de L. 4409 Beter it is that we out renne, Thenne as wrehches in house to brenne, And frye inne oure owne gres!
a1569 A. Kingsmill Viewe Mans Estate (1580) viii. 41 Must we needes be still sweating in the greace of our own fleshly wickednesse?
1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. G4v There hee sat fretting in his owne grease.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 65 Till the wicked fire of lust haue melted him in his owne greace.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. xv. 20 The adventrous Earl Henry of Oxford,..was set upon a desperat Work, wher he melted his grease, and so..died.
1663 S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours i, in Anc. Brit. Drama III. 415/1 There they stew In their own grease till morning.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 78 Let..the woods and forests blaze away, and the fat soyl of the earth fry in its own grease; these things will not affect us [the rocks and mountains].
?17.. R. Hood & Gold. Arrow in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 224/2 So we'll leave him chafing in his grease.
1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 96 The day was exceedingly hot, and..Rubios's horse was overheated, and as the phrase was, melted his grease.
2. † c. A salve (for the scab in sheep). Obsolete.
a. The melted or rendered fat of animals, esp. when it is in a soft state: often with a qualifying noun, specifying the kind of fat, as bear grease n. at bear n.1 Compounds 2a, goose-grease n., swine grease n. at swine n. Compounds 4a, etc.; †white grease, lard. Hence, by extension, oily or fatty matter in general, esp. such as is used as a lubricant.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [noun] > fattiness > fat or grease
greasec1290
lardc1420
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > derived from animals
smearc725
smolta1000
seamc1200
greasec1290
fat1393
creesha1400
brawn1535
axunge?1541
axungiety1599
axungiousness1599
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 12/375 Þat fuyr was i-maud of col and grece.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8485 Hii..wilde fur wiþ pich & grece wiþ ginnes In caste.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 63 Egges yfryed with grece.
a1400 Coer de L. 1552 Talwgh and grese menge alsoo.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 8 Take oynonys, and schrede hem..an frye in a panne of fayre grece.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 14 Gode brothe with wyte grece, þou noȝt forsake.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxii Let thy terre be medled with oyle, gose grece, or capons grece.
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxii Annoynt..with..som of the greses spoken of before.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 16 They delight to..make their skin glister with grease and char-cole beat together.
1678 Massacre Irel. 6 One fat man they murthered and made Candles of his grease.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 445 Johnson: They..extract a grease from them [sc. bones] for greasing wheels.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 820 (heading) Removing spots of grease from books and prints.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 172 Causing the piston-rod to work through a close collar stuffed with hemp and grease.
1889 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 215/2 The expenditure for lubricating oils, waste, and greases alone amounts to more than $150,000 per annum.
b. in various expressions, with reference to the qualities of grease, as oiliness, combustibility, etc.
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1650 Sc. Metr. Ps. cxix. 70 As fat as grease they be.
1843 T. C. Haliburton Attaché II. xii. 211 As slick as grease.
1860 G. A. Sala Looking at Life 147 His goods absuming away from him like grease in fire.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > medicines or applications > medicines or applications for sheep
salve1528
broom-salve?1530
grease?1530
sheep-smearing1824
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > smearing with tar or salve > salve
salve1528
broom-salve?1530
grease?1530
smear1802
sheep-smearing1824
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xii Those that be wasshen wyll not take scabbe after (yf they haue suffycyent meet) for that is the best grease that is to a shepe to grease hym in the mouth with good meet.
d. dialect. Butter; spec. rancid or inferior butter.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter
May-butter?a1425
clarified butter1562
pot-butter1616
manteca1622
grass butter1648
green butter1654
drawn butter1661
cacao butter1662
ghee1665
rowen1673
ruskin1679
orange butter1696
whey-buttera1722
rowen butter1725
fairy butter1747
grease1788
Cambridge butter1830
stubble-butter1856
black jack1858
maître d'hôtel butter1861
Normandy butter1868
creamery butter1881
pound butter1888
renovated butter1888
samn1888
process butter1898
pool butter1940
garlic butter1942
yak butter1962
Normandy1973
cannabutter1994
1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 196 The firsts and seconds[of butter] go to the London market; the ‘grease’ to the woollen-manufactory in the west of Yorkshire.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 333 Grease, rancid butter, of the lowest degree.
1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 When ‘gyppo’ or ‘grease’ was asked for at mealtimes, gravy or butter (?) was meant.
1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 297 Grease, butter.
1953 J. Masefield Conway (ed. 2) iii. 165 As to the food..we had many names for it;..grease for butter.
3. A disease which attacks the heels of a horse (see quot. 1872).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves
pains1440
mellitc1465
false quarter1523
gravelling?1523
founder1547
foundering1548
foot evil1562
crown scab1566
prick1566
quittor bone1566
moltlong1587
scratches1591
hoof-bound1598
corn1600
javar1600
frush1607
crepance1610
fretishing1610
seam1610
scratchets1611
kibe1639
tread1661
grease1674
gravel1675
twitter-bone1688
cleft1694
quittor1703
bleymes1725
crescent1725
hoof-binding1728
capelet1731
twitter1745
canker1753
grease-heels1753
sand-crack1753
thrush1753
greasing1756
bony hoof1765
seedy toe1829
side bone1840
cracked heel1850
mud fever1872
navicular1888
coronitis1890
toe-crack1891
flat-foot1894
1674 London Gaz. No. 898/4 A Chesnut coloured Horse,..his grease faln into his Legs.
1674 London Gaz. No. 962/4 One black Gelding,..the Greece in his Heels behind of both Feet.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 171 In fine, I am of Opinion, I could cure the Grease or Scratches without giving one Ounce of Physic inwardly.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 2 What farriers term the grease in the heels of horses.
1872 W. Walker Youatt's Horse (rev. ed.) xv. 354 Grease is a specific inflammation of the sebaceous follicles of the skin of the heels,..followed by an increased morbid secretion.
4. The oily matter in wool; also, wool before it is cleansed of this. in the grease: that has not been cleansed after shearing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > oily matter in
yolkiness1807
grease1835
wool-fat1875
wool-grease1875
wool-wax1911
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adverb] > greasy or unwashed
in the yolk1767
in the grease1835
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > before cleaning
greasy1883
grease1898
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 98 Shreds of flannel which having been freed from grease by washing, are readily moistened.
1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settl. x. 160 If you wash [the sheep]..you should do it thoroughly..otherwise you had better shear in the grease i.e. not wash. Wool in the grease weighs about one third heavier.
1886 W. A. Harris Techn. Dict. Fire Insurance Wool ‘in the grease’, that is, in the fleece, as it is taken from the sheep.
1895 Daily News 3 Oct. 7/4 Merino wools in the grease.
1898 Star (Johannesburg) 19 Mar. 1/2 The Colonial wool auction was opened on Tuesday..Grease showed a farthing advance on last sales rates.
5. slang and dialect. (See grease v. 4.)
a. Money given as a bribe.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe
gift1382
handy-dandyc1390
pricec1400
bud1436
bribe?a1439
golden (also silver) keyc1450
fee1549
golden shower1589
oil of angels1592
sugar-plum1608
bribera1616
palm oil1625
greasinga1661
sop1665
sweetbreada1670
vail1687
douceur1739
sweetener1741
bonus1759
buckshee1773
smear-gelt1785
grease1823
boodle?1856
soap1860
ice1887
palm-grease1897
poultice1902
fix1929
dropsy1930
pay-off1930
drop1931
oil1935
squeeze-pidgin1946
sling1948
bung1958
back-hander1960
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Grease, a bonus given to promote the cause of anyone.
b. Flattery, wheedling, ‘soft sawder’.
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1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Grease, flattery. ‘I should like him a vast sight better if he hed n't so much of his grease’.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 123 You should have seen the grease job I gave to Carter. I'm dumb, but man, he's dumber.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
grease-maker n.
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1862 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 13 Soap Boilers and Grease Makers.
grease-mark n.
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1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. vii. 120 These walls..bore the grease-marks of ages.
b.
grease-free adj.
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1908 Practitioner Sept. 488 Cyllin obstetrical lubricant..has the advantage that it is grease-free.
grease-laden adj.
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1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone (1926) 238 Grease-laden hold.
grease-sodden adj.
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1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 126 A mere grease-sodden mass.
grease-spotted adj.
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1824 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) 346 His inexpressibles..were napless, grease-spotted, and ventilated at the knees.
C2. † grease-fallen adj. Obsolete affected with ‘grease’ (sense 3). † grease grown adj. Obsolete grown greasy or fat.† grease-heels n. Obsolete = sense 3. † grease-molten adj. Obsolete (see quot.).
grease-ball n. (a) a medicinal ball of grease for giving to a horse; (b) U.S. slang, a derogatory term for a foreigner, esp. applied to one of Mediterranean or Latin American origin.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > medicines or applications > medicines or applications for horses
garum1587
charge1607
horse-mithridate1614
horse-drencha1616
arman1639
white water1673
remolade1696
nitre-ball1753
thrush-paste1888
mallein1891
grease-ball1926
bute1968
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. p. xlv/5 Grease Balls.
1934 Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs (1957) 559 Our grease-ball is a goddam dirty bum.
1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) ii. xvii. 176 A certain Mr. García—some greaseball who runs a lunch stand.
1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam xii. 193 The gunner was..Rick Francese; tormented with such unflattering names as ‘Wop’ and ‘Greaseball’ and mercilessly teased..about his Sicilian extraction, he was at the same time universally liked and enormously respected.
grease-band v. (transitive) .
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1900 W. D. Drury Bk. Gardening 1100 As a preventive measure all orchard trees should be grease~banded in autumn, using Willesden or similar grease~proof paper.
1930 J. Coutts et al. Compl. Bk. Gardening 704 The stake supporting the tree must also be grease~banded.
1965 Listener 7 Oct. 555/3 In really big fruit trees, you can get control of, say, caterpillar, by grease-banding now.
grease-band n. (see quot. 1953).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > grease-band
grease-band1900
1900 W. D. Drury Bk. Gardening 1093 Grease-bands put round the trees..will prevent the females from ascending.
1953 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. I (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 71 Grease band, a band of sticky or greasy material applied to a stem, as a barrier to insects.
grease bird n. a name for the Canada Jay ( Perisoreus canadensis).
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > perisoreus canadensis
whisky jack1743
whisky john1772
moose-bird1832
grease bird1892
1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 123 The Whisky Jack..In the mountains of British Columbia he is the Hudson's Bay bird or grease bird.
grease boil n. New Zealand a boil caused by contact with the grease in sheep's wool.
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1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop vii. 73 Hone Reki is pretty bad with grease boils.
1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) iv. 52 When a shearer does get grease boils he should rest with the legs up.
grease-box n. = grease-pot n.; also grease axle box (see quot.).
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1856 H. A. Ford Archery vii. 46 The grease box is generally made of wood, horn, or ivory.
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. at Axle-Box Axle boxes are called oil axle boxes, or grease axle boxes, as they are constructed for using one or the other lubricant.
grease-bush n. = grease-wood n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > plants yielding firewood
lightwood1693
lignum rhodium1693
candle-wood1712
rosewood1756
grease-wood1845
grease-bush1860
torch-tree1862
amyrisc1865
torchwood1866
candle-bush1890
1860 M. Reid Odd People 321 The ‘mezquite’ of several species..the grease-bush (obione canescens).
1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 5 The valleys [are covered] with greasebush and sage.
grease-cap n. = greaser n. 1d.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > lubricating device
greaser1908
grease-cap1924
1924 A. W. Judge Mod. Motor Cars I. 245 Screw~down grease caps are generally provided, and a turn should be given every time the car is used for more than a few miles.
grease-cock n. a cock or cup by means of which machinery is supplied with grease.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > lubricators
oil ring1830
grease-cock1839
grease cup1839
needle lubricator1873
oleojector1884
ring oiler1890
1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 155 The instrument is then fixed in the grease cock of the cylinder.
grease cup n. = grease-cock n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > lubricators
oil ring1830
grease-cock1839
grease cup1839
needle lubricator1873
oleojector1884
ring oiler1890
1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 37 Its upper surface forms a grease cup, where melted tallow, or oil, is kept constantly lubricating the piston.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of feet or hooves
broken-hoofed1362
afounded?a1425
foundered1543
pumiced1566
hoof-bound1598
fretished1607
incastellated1611
wired1614
gravelled1630
grease-fallen1688
greasy1701
incastled1706
greased1710
scratchy1710
retraised1725
hot-footed1740
twitter-boned1760
quittered1778
thrushy1831
1688 London Gaz. No. 2386/4 A dark brown Gelding..a little grease-fallen.
1711 London Gaz. No. 4847/4 The further Foot behind Grease fallen.
grease-fish n. = candle-fish n. at candle n. Compounds 2.
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?a1400 Morte Arth. 1101 Greesse growene as a galte.
grease-gun n. (see quot. 1963).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > lubricating equipment
grease-horna1642
oil bag1684
lubricator183.
oilway1840
oiler1848
oil cup1850
grease-gun1917
1917 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 282/1 in G. de T. Glazebrook et al. Shopper's View of Canada's Past (1969) 194 Ford Grease and Oil Gun, made specially to fill rear axle housing with grease.
1923 Daily Mail 11 May 12 I liked very much the accessibility of all the greasers on the car. Every one can easily be reached with a grease gun without any acrobatic feats.
1963 R. F. Webb Motorists' Dict. 117 Grease gun, a tool or device designed to pump grease into the required place under high pressures.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves
pains1440
mellitc1465
false quarter1523
gravelling?1523
founder1547
foundering1548
foot evil1562
crown scab1566
prick1566
quittor bone1566
moltlong1587
scratches1591
hoof-bound1598
corn1600
javar1600
frush1607
crepance1610
fretishing1610
seam1610
scratchets1611
kibe1639
tread1661
grease1674
gravel1675
twitter-bone1688
cleft1694
quittor1703
bleymes1725
crescent1725
hoof-binding1728
capelet1731
twitter1745
canker1753
grease-heels1753
sand-crack1753
thrush1753
greasing1756
bony hoof1765
seedy toe1829
side bone1840
cracked heel1850
mud fever1872
navicular1888
coronitis1890
toe-crack1891
flat-foot1894
1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xxi. 190 An alterative for surfeits, molten-grease, hide-bound, grease-heels, &c.
grease-horn n. a horn in which grease is carried for lubricating purposes; hence figurative (dialect), a flatterer.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > lubricating equipment
grease-horna1642
oil bag1684
lubricator183.
oilway1840
oiler1848
oil cup1850
grease-gun1917
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 34 The tooles that Mowers are to have with them are Sythe, shafte,..and grease horne.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott vii A grease-horn for his scythe.
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. v. 76 Smooth-faced, snivelling greasehorn!
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 75 A Greasehorn, a flatterer.
grease-jack n. ‘an apparatus for improving the finish of leather’ ( Cent. Dict.).
grease-man n. one employed to grease machinery.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [noun] > one who operates machine > who performs specific task
feeder1676
winder1823
greaser1832
oiler1846
grease-man1898
oilman1902
pani-wallah1957
1898 Cent. Mag. Jan. 403/2 Lever men, engineers and ‘greasemen’ had rushed up from the engine-room.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Grease-molten, a Distemper in a Horse, when his Fat is melted by over-hard Riding, or Labour.
grease monkey n. slang a mechanic.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > engineer > [noun] > motor mechanic
motor mechanic1913
mech1918
grease monkey1928
motor fitter1961
1928 L. Gravatt Pioneers of Air 251 All the way down the line we find them from skilled draftsmen in a polished office to the ‘grease monkeys’ with blackened faces and smeary over-alls.
1946 V. Tempest Near Sun viii. 63 Flight mechanics and fitters, known in the Battle of Britain as ‘grease monkeys’ but generally called in the Royal Air Force ‘Erks’.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Nov. 700/3 In Australia he was impressed by the ‘grease~monkey’ at Broken Hill who could afford to run a racing stable.
grease mould n. (see quot.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > mould or mildew
fenOE
mildew1340
moulda1400
moul1440
vinny1538
hoar1548
mouldingc1610
vinegar-plant1797
moulder1817
mucor1818
vinegar mother1839
leaf rust1859
wood-mould1869
Isaria1874
grease mould1882
brown mould1883
pourriture noble1911
fumagine1913
1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants 185 Tallow stores are often infested with a microscopic fungus, known as Grease Mould (Mucorini phycomyce).
grease nipple n. a fitting by which lubricant can be applied directly to a bearing or other moving part of a machine using a grease gun; cf. zerk n. 1.
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1922 Pop. Mech. Aug. 306/1 Recently an automobile, of popular make, lost considerable water from its radiator, and this was finally traced to the grease nipples on the pump-shaft bearings, the stuffing box and connections being tight.
2012 Earthmovers Apr. 17 There is a grease gun storage point in the right-hand skirt and grease nipples are shrouded and highlighted in yellow paint, which makes them easy to identify among the red and grey livery.
grease-paint n. a composition used by actors in painting their faces.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > make-up
make-up1886
grease-paint1888
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 3/1 He only used such materials as [are] in every actor's make-up box—grease-paint, rouge, lining-pencil, and powder.
1928 H. Crane Let. 27 Apr. (1965) 324 Hawaii..the Pollyanna greasepaint pinkpoodle paradise.
1944 L. MacNeice Christopher Columbus 16 The grease-paint voice will stick out all the more when there is no real grease-paint to look at.
1958 Listener 9 Oct. 578/1 ‘The Vortex’, faithfully performed in 1920 greasepaint voices, is a very poor play.
grease-pan n. (see quot. 1960).
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candlestick > other parts of
nose1432
socketc1440
nozzle1447
flower1521
bobeche1853
grease-pan1936
1936 Burlington Mag. July 26/2 Candlesticks with candle-holders and grease-pans.
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 134/1 Grease-pan, the circular dish beneath the nozzle of a candlestick into which grease from the burning candle might drip.
grease-patch n. a piece of greased cloth in which the bullets of some kinds of rifles were wrapped (see patch n.1 4).
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1887 Whitaker's Almanack 542/1 The grease patch was discontinued with the adoption of the Minié rifle.
grease pencil n. a pencil made with coloured wax, typically used for marking hard, glossy, or non-porous surfaces such as glass or porcelain; a similar implement for applying cosmetic shading or colouring effects to the face or body (esp. around the eyes); (also) marks made or the cosmetic applied with such a pencil.Cf. china pencil n., chinagraph pencil.
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1890 Beauty: Its Attainm. & Preserv. xxviii. 374 The point of the grease pencil used for darkening the brows is drawn about the edges of the lids just at the roots of the lashes.
1911 Tel. (Brisbane) 15 Aug. 5/5 He corked the bottles after they were filled. He also marked them with a grease pencil before filling.
1977 R. L. Hall Exit Sherlock Holmes (1979) x. 136 A beard stuck on my face with spirit gum, and lines of age marked my cheeks in grease pencil.
1987 N. Roberts Playboy Prince (2003) viii. 198 Chantel set down the grease pencil she'd been using to touch up her eyes.
2000 C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. ix. 128 Frontal positions and high and low pressure centers can be recorded on a transparent acetate sheet using different color grease pencils.
2014 M. Pitre Fives & Twenty-fives 311 Notations appeared in grease pencil on the laminated wall map.
grease-pot n. a vessel containing grease for lubricating, etc.; spec. in Archery and in Tin-plating (see quots.).
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1801 T. Roberts Eng. Bowman 289 Grease-pot, a small box..containing the composition used in lubricating the fingers of the shooting-glove.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1253 [article Tin-plate] A range of rectangular cast-iron pots is set over a fire-flue..The first..is the tin-pot;..the third is the grease-pot.
grease-pox n. the disease produced by inoculation from the ‘grease’ (see 3) of a horse's heels.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > other eruptive diseases
gutta rosaceac1400
spotted death1623
spotted fever1623
horse-pox1656
flock-pox1672
hog pox1676
spotted pestilence1783
salt rheum1809
molluscum1813
molluscum contagiosum1817
grease-pox1822
horn-pox1822
date fever1836
glass-pock1858
molluscum sebaceum1866
verruga1873
furunculosis1886
gutta rubea1886
flannel rash1888
vaccinide1889
rubeoloid1893
pox1897
veld sores1898
spotted sickness1899
sweat-rash1899
synanthema1899
sporotrichosis1908
alastrim1911
pseudoxanthoma elasticum1933
monkeypox1960
scleromyxœdema1964
yusho1969
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 599 Grease-pox seems to have succeeded as well as small-pox.
grease-season n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting time > [noun]
seasona1425
grease-season?a1562
grease-time?a1562
game season1783
open season1846
cover-day1902
?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 92 His hyghnes roode in his progresse wt Mrs Anne Boleyn in his company all the grece season.
grease-spot n. (a) a spot of grease (on clothes, etc.); (b) slang (see quot. 1860); (c) a spot of grease used in photometry; so grease-spot photometer.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > one who fights > remains of adversary
grease-spot1829
1829 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 129 I hit a man..dere was nothing left, Sept a little grease spot.
1839 Mag. Domest. Econ. 4 214 Grease-spots may be removed from woollen cloths by [etc.].
1843 T. C. Haliburton Attaché II. viii. 143 If you was to look at me with a ship's glass you wouldn't see a grease spot of it in me.
1860 Slang Dict. Grease-spot, a minute remnant, the only distinguishable remains of an antagonist after a terrific contest.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 584/1 Bunsen has recently suggested the very simple expedient of making a grease-spot on white paper for photometric purposes. When the paper is equally illuminated from both sides, the grease-spot cannot be seen except by very close inspection... The amounts of light are as the squares of the distances of the sources from this point [sc. the grease-spot].
1911 R. S. Clay Treat. Pract. Light xviii. 388 The grease-spot photometer is perhaps the most sensitive to scattered light.
1923 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics IV. 416/2 As a convenient example, the simple form of the Bunsen grease-spot photometer may be described.
grease-tight adj. = greaseproof adj.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > fatty or greasy > grease-proof
greaseproof1851
grease-tight1925
1925 A. W. Judge Mech. Car 163 The nipples are..grease-tight and dust-excluding.
grease-time n. the period when the deer are ‘in grease’.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting time > [noun]
seasona1425
grease-season?a1562
grease-time?a1562
game season1783
open season1846
cover-day1902
?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 141 My lord contynued at Southewell vntill the latter end of Grease tyme.
1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting C iv You must beware that you offer not to hunt the Bucke before the first day of Grasse time.
grease-trap n. an appliance for catching grease in a drain (cf. fat-trap n. at fat adj. and n.2 Compounds 2).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer > device for catching fat or grease
fat-trap1884
grease-trap1884
1884 G. E. Waring in Cent. Mag. Dec. 264/2 There have been invented various forms of grease-trap.
grease-wood n. a name for various stunted and prickly chenopodiaceous shrubs, of the genera Sarcobatus, Atriplex, etc., which contain oil and are found in dry alkaline valleys of the western U.S.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > plants yielding firewood
lightwood1693
lignum rhodium1693
candle-wood1712
rosewood1756
grease-wood1845
grease-bush1860
torch-tree1862
amyrisc1865
torchwood1866
candle-bush1890
1845 J. Palmer Jrnl. (1847) 48 Wild sage and greasewood found in plenty.
1883 W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. Mar. 502/2 The ‘grease-wood’ is a large bush which is said to burn just as well green as dry.
1928 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop i. i. 18 The wagon train had been going all day through a greasewood plain.
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greasev.
/ɡriːs/, /ɡriːz/, U.S. /ɡris/ 1. figurative.1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 66 A still black pool, greased with eddies.
a. transitive. To smear or anoint with grease.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [verb (transitive)] > smear with fat or grease
tallowa1400
lardc1420
greasec1450
begrease1565
belard1885
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 237 Þe feendys grecyd here lyppes wyth here oynementys..& þanne þe folk iangelyd.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 44 Reynard thenne dyde grece his shoes..and dyde hem on.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xxi. 142 Flaxe grecyd with oyle and mixtyouned with brymstone.
1618 P. Holderus tr. J. van Oldenbarneveld Barneuel's Apol. sig. D3v By Gods grace. [note] Which lies in your bootes, after the kitchin-wench hath greased them.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 255 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Their hair..grows not much, though they grease it perpetually.
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife iii. 33 A Confessor! just such a Confessor, as he that by forbidding a silly Oastler to grease the Horses teeth, taught him to do 't.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 178 Grease well the inside of a dish.
b. To make greasy, to soil with grease or fat.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [verb (transitive)] > smear with fat or grease > make greasy
pinguefy1599
grease1615
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > soil with specific substances
pitcheOE
be-ash1530
bepitch1574
grease1615
besnuff1728
melvie1786
guggle1866
1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. K2 He..greases his breches extreamely with feeding without a napkin.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. iv. 14 In daily greazing his white habit with handling his fat Gammons of Bacon.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub vii. 144 A Treatise..never to be thumb'd or greas'd by Students.
1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 68 If the bearings have to be oiled in the usual manner, the belt is sure to become greased by the waste oil.
2. To apply a salve of tallow and tar to (sheep). Also absol.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > practise veterinary medicine and surgery [verb (transitive)] > give specific treatment > to sheep
greasec1380
salve?1530
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > salve
greasec1380
salve?1530
smearc1535
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 439 Þe þridde offiss þat falliþ to persouns is to greese þer scabbid sheep.
1401 Friar Daw's Reply in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 63 Go, grees a shoep undir the taile.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiv And than let the shepherd go belt grece & handell all those that he hath drawen.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 31 Before which time wee cannot conveniently grease our lambes.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 31 Yow are to see the weather sette att a certaine before yow beginne to grease.
3.
a. To lubricate with grease.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [verb (transitive)] > lubricate > with grease
grease1462
1462 in Brit. Mag. (1834) 6 263 Hys Fellowe schall greese ye bellys and Fynde gresse therto.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 574/2 He greaseth his carte to make it go the better.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 134 To annoynt and grease the axle~trees of the carriages.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 439 The carriage bowls along and all are pleased, If Tom be sober, and the wheels well greased.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxii, in Writings I. 219 Silently went the window up..as though greased by some witch.
1885 Sir A. L. Smith in Law Times 79 331/2 To keep the machinery greased.
b. transferred. To make to run easily.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [verb (transitive)] > make soft and moist
relent?a1425
grease1883
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 165 Confectionary..Spinning..Boil clarified syrup to ‘caramel’..The moment it is at crack, add a little acid to ‘grease’ it.
4. figurative.
a. With direct reference to the literal senses; to grease the wheels: to make things run smoothly; to provide the entertainment, pay the expenses.
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c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 260 As a carte-qweel, drye & vngrecyd, cryeth lowdest of oþere qwelys; So, þou drye & noȝt grecyd wyth grace grucchyst lowdest.
1575 G. Gascoigne David's Salut. to Betzabe 33 Posies 289 She greazde this guest with sause of Sorcerie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 196 Ingratefull man with Licourish draughts And Morsels Vnctious, greases his pure minde, That from it all Consideration slippes. View more context for this quotation
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. ix. 308 To day, the wheels are greased by your humble servant.
1857 A. H. Elton Below Surface III. vii. 153 The party I mean is a glutton for money, but I will do my best with him. I think a hundred pounds..would grease the wheels.
b. To ply with money, to bribe; also, †to enrich; originally in phrases to grease (a person's) hand (also palm), †to grease (a person) in the hands, to grease the palm, to grease the fist. (Cf. French graisser la patte à quelqu'un.) to grease the fat pig (also sow)(figurative): to give to those who do not want.
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the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (intransitive)] > give to those who do not lack
to grease the fat pig (also sow)1528
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (intransitive)] > practise bribery
to grease (a person's) hand (also palm)1528
to anoint a person's hand1542
bribe1547
whiddlec1661
to mollify the fist1698
boodle1887
to oil a person's palm1925
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe
meedOE
underorna1325
corrump1387
forbuy1393
hirec1400
wage1461
fee1487
under-arearc1503
bribe1528
grease1528
money1528
corrupt1548
budc1565
to feed with money1567
to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580
sweeten1594
to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598
over-bribe1619
to buy off1629
palter1641
to take off1646
buy1652
overmoneya1661
bub1684
to speak to ——1687
to tickle in the palm1694
daub1699
overbuy1710
touch1752
palm1767
to get at ——1780
fix1790
subsidize1793
sop1837
to buy over1848
backsheesh1850
nobble1856
square1859
hippodrome1866
see1867
boodleize1883
boodle1886
to get to ——1901
reach1906
straighten1923
lubricate1928
to keep (someone) sweet1939
sling1939
to pay off1942
bung1950
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. c viii With rewardes they must hym greace.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Bii Wyth golde and grotes they grese my hande.
1562 J. Heywood Dial. Prov. i. xi. sig. D4v What should we (quoth I) grease the fat sow in thars.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 26v How husbandry easeth, so huswiferie pleaseth, and many pursse greaseth with siluer and golde.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 400 b Ye shavelynges..dare not abide to be greaced in the handes.
1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. B3v The Pope and Popelings shall not grease themselues With golde and groates.
1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 6 While pluralities greas'd them thick and deepe.
1651 A. Wood Life Aug. (1891) I. 178 His engineer was greased in the fist.
1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 178 To grease a fat sow on the A…
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 249 I greas'd the Goaler..with three Pieces of Eight.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue To grease a fat sow in the arse, to give to a rich man.
1791 J. Wolcot Wks. (1794) I. 287 ‘And then why vore?’ the peepel rail:— ‘To greaze a vat ould pig in the tail—Old Weymouth o' Long Leat.’
1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun III. 42 You would imply that, if we were greased in the palm, we should, like them, be ready to turn a courtier.
1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 294 In Persia, justice, though at times very blind, is never slow unless her palm is greased.
1923 Daily Mail 7 Aug. 8/6 These instances of extravagance, which seem to recall the old saying of greasing the fat pig.
c. †To gull, cheat (obsolete). Also dialect: to flatter, wheedle.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, cheat, dupe [verb (transitive)]
belirtOE
bitruflea1250
begab1297
bobc1320
bedaffc1386
befool1393
mock1440
triflea1450
glaik?a1513
bedawa1529
fond?1529
allude1535
gulla1550
dolt1553
dor1570
poop1575
colt1579
foolify1581
assot1583
noddify1583
begecka1586
elude1594
wigeona1595
fool1598
noddy1600
fop1602
begull1605
waddle1606
woodcockize1611
bemocka1616
greasea1625
noddypoop1640
truff1657
bubble1668
cully1676
coaxc1679
dupe1704
to play off1712
noodle1769
idiotize1775
oxify1804
tomfool1835
sammyfoozle1837
trail1847
pipe lay1848
pigwidgeon1852
green1853
con1896
rib1912
shuck1959
a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) iv. ii. 41 Am I greas'd once again?
a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover v. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. D2v /2 So, you are greas'd I hope.
a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iv. iii. 49 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) She's finely greaz'd.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Grease, to flatter; to fawn upon.
5. To cause (a horse) to become affected with ‘grease’. Also intransitive of a horse: to become so affected.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > of horse: have disorder [verb (intransitive)] > disorders of feet or hooves
gravel1593
grease1737
scratch1737
wire1831
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > cause injury or disease of horse [verb (transitive)] > disorders of feet or hooves
founder1593
gravel1593
dry-founder1619
grease1737
wire1753
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xliv. 580 More Horse's are greas'd by bad looking to, than by hard Riding.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xliv. 580 I have had but one [boy] that could truly be said to be so careful, that you could not grease one [horse] whilst under his Care.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xliv. 587 They would grease and scratch sooner before than behind.
1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 163 The wishes that Witches utter Can..Grease horses' heels.
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