Found 4 hits - Term: grease, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grease \grease\ gr=ez or gr=es; 277, v. t. imp. p. p.
greased gr=ezd or gr=esd; p. pr. vb. n.
greasing.
1913 webster
1. to smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to
lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.
1913 webster
2. to bribe; to corrupt with presents.
1913 webster
the greased advocate that grinds the poor. --dryden.
1913 webster
3. to cheat or cozen; to overreach. obs. --beau. fl.
1913 webster
4. far. to affect a horse with grease, the disease.
1913 webster
to grease in the hand, to grease the hand, to corrupt by
bribes. --usher.
1913 webster
see also:
greased greasing to grease in the hand to grease the hand
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grease \grease\ gr=es, n. oe. grese, grece, f. graisse;
akin to gras fat, greasy, fr. ll. grassus thick, fat, gross,
l. crassus. cf. crass.
1. animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft
state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
1913 webster
2. far. an inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the
ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing
dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration,
and fungous excrescences.
1913 webster
grease bush. bot. same as grease wood below.
grease moth zool., a pyralid moth aglossa pinguinalis
whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc.
grease wood bot., a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat
prickly shrub sarcobatus vermiculatus of the spinach
family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper
missouri to california. the name is also applied to other
plants of the same family, as several species of
atriplex and obione.
1913 webster
see also:
crass grease bush grease wood grease moth aglossa pinguinalis sarcobatus vermiculatus
atriplex obione
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
grease
n 1: a thick fatty oil especially one used to lubricate
machinery syn: lubricating oil
2: the state of being covered with unclean things syn: dirt,
filth, grime, soil, stain, grunge
v : lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels"
see also:
lubricating oil dirt filth grime soil stain
grunge
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
175 moby thesaurus words for "grease":
trinkgeld, adulation, aid, animal oil, anoint, approach, beeswax,
blandishment, blarney, blunt, bonus, boodle, bounty, brass, bread,
bribe, bucks, bunkum, buy, buy off, cabbage, cajolement, cajolery,
cerate, chips, clear the way, compliment, consideration, corrupt,
dab, daub, dinero, donative, double time, dough, drag, dress,
drying oil, dub, ease, embrocate, equalize, essential oil, ester,
even, expedite, explain, eyewash, facilitate, fair words, fat,
fatty oil, fawning, fee, fix, fixed oil, flatten, flattery, gelt,
get at, get to, gilt, glycerolate, grade, gratuity, gravy,
grease the palm, grease the ways, grease the wheels, green,
green stuff, harrow, hasten, help along, honeyed phrases,
honeyed words, honorarium, hydrogenated fat, incense,
incentive pay, inducement, jack, kale, lagniappe, lard, largess,
lay, level, liberality, lipid, loose, lubricate, make clear,
make way for, mazuma, mineral oil, moolah, mopus, mow, oil,
oil of palms, ointment, oleum, oof, ooftish, open the way, open up,
palaver, palm oil, pave the way, pay off, perks, perquisite, plane,
planish, plaster, polyunsaturated fat, pomade, pourboire, praise,
premium, prepare the way, pretty lies, purchase, quicken, reach,
remove friction, rhino, rocks, run interference for, salve, sebum,
shave, shekels, simoleons, simplify, slick, slick on, smear,
smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smooth the way, soap,
soap the ways, soft soap, something extra, speed, spondulics,
sportula, suborn, sugar, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words,
sweetener, sycophancy, take care of, tallow, tamper with,
the needful, tickle the palm, tin, tip, unbar, unblock, unclog,
unguent, unjam, unsaturated fat, vegetable oil, volatile oil,
wampum, wax, wheedling
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