Greve: f. The place of Execution, in Paris. Ange de Greve. A Porter, or burthen-bearer; also, one that hangs on a Gibbet. Faict Cardinal en Greve. One thats beheaded at the Greve. Greve: f. Sand, or Grauell; and, a sandie Strand, or Shore; also, the shanke, shinne, or (fore-part of the) leg. La greve des cheveux (&, les cheveux departis en greve.) The shedding, or shading of the haire; the parting thereof on the forehead (after the old fashion.)
Grevé: m. ée: f. Grieued, aggrieued, pained; vexed, hurt; molested, annoyed; wronged, oppressed, ouercharged, ouerburthened; also, burst, or whose bowels are fallen into his cods.
Grevelure. The mayle of a Hawke.
Grever. To grieue, aggrieue, paine, vex, hurt; afflict, annoy, trouble, disquiet, molest; wrong, iniure, ouercharge, ouerburthen, oppresse; also, to dig into, or make hollow, with the nayles.
Greves: f. Bootes; also, greaues, or armour for the legs.
Greveure: f. An inward rupture, or bursting (of the lower part of the bellie) or an extraordinarie swelling of the cods, by the bowels falling into them; a bursting, or being burst.
Grevolable: com. Deseruing the Rope; for whom the Gallowes groane.
Greux. Les greux: m. The nayles. ¶Pic. Grez: m. A greetie, browne-gray, shining, hard, and long-lasting free-stone, good to paue with; and (small-broken) to scowre brasen, or pewter vessell; See Grais. Grezillé. Wrigled; crumpled; crackled; curled, frizled, twirled.
Greziller. To wrigle, or stirre as a liue fish on a hot grid-*iron; to crumple together, as leather, or parchment in the fire; also, to crackle, as a shell in fire, or salted flesh on coales; also, to curle, twirle, frizle haire &c.
Grezillons. Hawkes bells; also, as Grillons; also, little gobbets of fat, or salt meat broyled; also, crumplings, or twirles, as of haire curled.
Griache. as Griesche. ¶Rab. Griaibe. A sea-Mew. ¶Savoyard. Griais: m. A kind of daintie red-legd Partridge; or, as Perdrix griesche. Griais. Gray; or, of the colour of a Starling.
Griblettes: f. Collops.
Gribouiller. To rumble, or croake (as the guts doe through windinesse.)
Gribouillis: m. The rumbling, croaking, or stirring of the guts; also, a fained name for a diuell.
Gribouri: m. A Goblin, Robingoodfellow, walking spirit that rumbles in houses a nights.
Grief: m. An aggreuance, wrong, iniurie; oppression; vexation, molestation, trouble. Bailler griefs en plaidoirie. An Appealant to alledge the wrongs, and points of iniustice, done vnto him by the sentence, from which he hath appealed.
Grief: m. ieve: f. Grieuous, offensiue; noysome, troublesome; heauie, wrongfull, obnoxious.
Griesche: com. Gray; or peckled as a Stare; also, sharp, or prickling; whence;
Ortie griesche. The male, Romane, or Greeke nettle; (a stranger in England;) some also call so the small,
red, stinging, nettle. Perdrix griesche. The ordinarie, or gray, Partridge. Pie griesche. The Wariangle; (a rauenous bird.)
Grieux: m. A villaine, theefe, rascall. (v.m.) Grifes. See Griffes. Griffade: f. A clawing; a scratch, or gripe with the clawes; a ranche, or clinch with a beasts paw.
Griffe: m. A kind of big Tumbler, or dog thats bodied (but not deepe-hung) like the Talbot.
Griffe: f. A Claw, nayle, tallon. Griffe graffe. By hooke or by crooke, squimble squamble, scamblingly, catch that catch may. On cognoist le Diable à ses griffes: Prov. The diuell is knowne by his clawes.
Griffé: m. ée: f. Clawed, or hauing clawes; also, griped, or grasped with clawes.
Griffer. To gripe, graspe, seize, catch, lay hold on with clawes, &c; also, to seize, or catch at violently, greedily, and wrongfully.
Griffon: m. A Gripe, or Griffon. Pied de griffon. A Griffons foot; an instrument (made like the foot of a Griffon) wherewith Surgeons draw moles, or the parts of a dead child, out of womens wombes; also, as Pommelaye, or Pomelée. Griffonner. To write fast, and ill; to scrible, to scrall it.
Griffu: m. üe: f. Hauing great clawes, or sharpe tallons.
Grigne: com. Wrinkled.
Grigner. To grinne.
Grignette. Perdrix g. The ordinarie Partridge.
Grigneur. Greater, huger, larger, mightier.
Grignon de pain. A crustie peece of bread, or corner of a loafe.
Grignoté: m. ée: f. Gnawed, knapled, or nibled away.
Grignoter. To mumble, or eat, like a Conny, or Squirrell; also, to gnaw, knaple, or nible away.
Gril: m. A Gridiron.
Grillant. Broyling on a Gridiron; also, grating vp; also, gliding, sliding, glib-running, trickling, along.
Grille: f. An Iron grate. Grille de bois. An Engine made of stickes, or peeces of wood, bound together, and applyed vnto the wry necke of a beast, thereby to force it vnto straitnesse. Les grilles d'une fenestre. The grating, or barres of a window.
Grillé: m. ée: f. Broyled on a Gridiron; hence, also, parched, withered, or dryed vp with extreame heat; also, glid, or slipped along; also, grated, or close barred vp.
Grillement: m. A broyling on a Gridiron; also, a parching with extreame heat; also, a gliding, or sliding along; also, a grating, or shutting vp with grates.
Griller. To broyle on a Gridiron; also, to scorch, parch, or dry vp with extreame heat; also, to grate; set a grate before, shut vp with grates; also, to glide, slip, slide, steale, trickle, runne, glib along; also, as Grisser; also, to sit rumpled, or in plaits, as a garment thats too side-wasted; also, to ruffle, or snarle, as ouer-*twisted thread.
Grillet: m. A Hawkes bell; also, as Grillon.
Grilletier: m. A Cricket-catcher; also, a maker of Hawkes bells.
