SG Heritage Dictionary

Grease [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Grease [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. greez. To smear, anoint or daub with grease or fat.

2. To bribe; to corrupt with presents. [Not elegant.]

Grease [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Grease [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. To cheat or cozen; to overreach.

4. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

Greased [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Smeared with oily matter; bribed.

Greased [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Grease

Greaser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.

2. A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.