grease.
Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
Meaning & usage
Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
Any oily or fatty matter.
Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
Money.
Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin crassus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Vulgar Latin *crassia Anglo-Norman grecebor. Middle English grece English grease From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *crassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
To bribe.
To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
To kill.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
To depart or slip away.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin crassus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Vulgar Latin *crassia Anglo-Norman grecebor. Middle English grece English grease From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *crassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
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