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English Dictionary: Greek	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Greek adj of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language; "Greek mythology"; "a Grecian robe" Synonym(s): Greek, Grecian, Hellenic n the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages Synonym(s): Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language a native or inhabitant of Greece Synonym(s): Greek, Hellene
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Greek \Greek\, a. [AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf. {Grecian}.] Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. {Greek calends}. See under Calends. {Greek Church} (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the {Byzantine Church}. {Greek cross}. See Illust. (10) Of {Cross}. {Greek Empire}. See {Byzantine Empire}. {Greek fire}, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. --Ure. {Greek rose}, the flower campion.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Greek \Greek\, n. 1. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece. 2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [Slang] Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek. --Sat. Rev. 3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me. [Colloq.]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
greek 1. To display text as abstract dots and lines in order to give a preview of layout without actually being legible. This is faster than drawing the characters correctly which may require scaling or other transformations. Greeking is particularly useful when displaying a reduced image of a document where the text would be too small to be legible on the display anyway. 2. {lorem ipsum}. (1999-06-27)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Greek Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed between "Greek" and "Grecian" (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as opposed to a Jew (Rom. 2:9, 10). The latter, meaning properly "one who speaks Greek," is a foreign Jew opposed to a home Jew who dwelt in Palestine. The word "Grecians" in Acts 11:20 should be "Greeks," denoting the heathen Greeks of that city, as rendered in the Revised Version according to the reading of the best manuscripts ("Hellenes").