1. See Gree, a step.
2. See Gree, good will.
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1. Animal fat in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind, as tallow, lard; but particularly the fatty matter of land animals, as distinguished from the oily matter of marine animals.
2. A swelling and gourdiness of a horse's legs, occasioned by traveling or by standing long in a stable.
2. To bribe; to corrupt with presents. [Not elegant.]
1. Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
2. 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.
1. To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.
2. To bribe; to corrupt with presents.
4. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
1. One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.
1. In a greasy manner.
2. In a gross or indelicate manner.
3. Like grease or oil; smooth; as a fossil that has a greasy feel.
4. Fat of body; bulky. [Little used.]
5. Gross; indelicate; indecent.
1. Large in bulk or dimensions; a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual; as a great body; a great house; a great farm.
2. Being of extended length or breadth; as a great distance; a great lake.
3. Large in number; as a great many; a great multitude.
4. Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing; as great fear; great love; great strength; great wealth; great power; great influence; great folly.
5. Long continued; as a great while.
6. Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter.
7. Chief; principal; as the great seal of England.
8. Chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; illustrious; as the great God; the great Creator.
9. Vast; extensive; wonderful; admirable.
10. GREAT are thy works. Jehovah.
11. Possessing large or strong powers of mind; as a great genius.
12. Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge; as a great philosopher or botanist; a great scholar.
13. Distinguished by rank, office or power; elevated; eminent; as a great lord; the great men of the nation; the great Mogul; Alexander the great
16. Magnanimous; generous; of elevated sentiments; high-minded. He has a great soul.
17. Rich; sumptuous; magnificent. He disdained not to appear at great tables. A great feast or entertainment.
18. Vast; sublime; as a great conception or idea.
19. Dignified; noble.
20. Nothing can be great which is not right.
21. Swelling; proud; as, he was not disheartened by great looks.
22. Chief; principal; much traveled; as a great road. The ocean is called the great highway of nations.
24. Hard; difficult. It is no great matter to live in peace with meek people.
25. Familiar; intimate. [Vulgar.]
26. Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. Jude 1:6 .
27. Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather; great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely; and great grandson, great great grandson. etc.
28. Superior; preeminent; as great chamberlain; great marshal.
The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.
1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
2. Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.
3. Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.
4. Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
5. Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.
6. Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc.
7. Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.
9. More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
10. Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc.
Great britain and ireland
Encyclopedia Britannica
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, The United Kingdom of, has been since January 1, 1801, the official title of the political unity composed of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Great Britain was employed as a formal designation from the time of the union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland in 1707. Although the name (which apparently had its origin in Britannia Major, the name given to the island to distinguish it from Britannia Minor or Brittany) had, in earlier times, been often used both by English and by foreign writers, especially for rhetorical and poetical purposes, it was not till after the accession of James I. that it became a recognized part of the royal style. Its adoption was due to the king himself, who was anxious to give expression to the fact that he was sovereign of the undivided island, and not only of England or Scotland. As early as 1559 the Scottish Congregation had formally proposed through Maitland the union of the two crowns, and the adoption of the name of Great Britain for the common country (Teulet, i., “Mém. Caillé à M. de la Mothe,” Dec. 20). But in England the innovation at first met with great opposition. Various objections, sentimental and practical, were urged against it in parliament; and the judges, when appealed to by the king, declared that the adoption of the title would invalidate all legal processes. At length, on the 20th October 1604, the king, weary of the discussion, cut the knot by assuming the title by royal proclamation, and in due course the inscription “J. D. G. Mag. Brit. F. et H. Rex” appeared on his coins. The proclamation declared that Great Britain was “the true and ancient name which God and time have imposed upon this lie, extant and received in histories, in all mappes and cartes wherein this ile is ...described, and in ordinary letters to ourselfe from divers foreign princes, warranted also by authentical charters, exemplifications under seals, and other records of great antiquitie.” In November 1604 we find the king instructing the Lords Commissioners of the Gunpowder Plot to try and discover if the prisoner was the author of a most “cruel pasquil” against him for assuming the name of Britain. For further details see Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Semes, and Sρedding, Letters and Life of Lord Bacon, vol. iii.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 11, p. 79
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The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
High-spirited; undejected.
1. High-spirited; fearless.
2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
An overcoat.
To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand.
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1,671 KJV and 1,098 BSB verses contain “GRE” — showing the first 20. Show all 1,971 verses (searchable)
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”