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Grease \Grease\ (gr[=e]z or gr[=e]s; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Greased} (gr[=e]zd or gr[=e]sd); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Greasing}.]
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1. To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to
lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.
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2. To bribe; to corrupt with presents.
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The greased advocate that grinds the poor. --Dryden.
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3. To cheat or cozen; to overreach. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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4. (Far.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
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{To grease in the hand}, {To grease the hand}, to corrupt by
bribes. --Usher.
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Grease \Grease\ (gr[=e]s), 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.
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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.
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{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}.
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