grease : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: grease	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for grease
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grease n a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) Synonym(s): grease, lubricating oil the state of being covered with unclean things Synonym(s): dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grunge v lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grease \Grease\ (gr[emac]z or gr[emac]s; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Greased} (gr[emac]zd or gr[emac]sd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Greasing}.] 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. The greased advocate that grinds the poor. --Dryden. 3. To cheat or cozen; to overreach. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 4. (Far.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. {To grease in the hand}, to corrupt by bribes. --Usher.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grease \Grease\ (gr[emac]s), n. [OE. grese, grece, F. graisse; akin to gras fat, greasy, fr. LL. grassus thick, fat, gross, L. crassus. Cf. {Crass}.] 1. Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind. 2. (Far.) 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 bush}. (Bot.) Same as {Grease wood} (below). {Grease moth} (Zo[94]l.), a pyralid moth ({Aglossa pinguinalis}) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc. {Grease wood} (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub ({Sarcobatus vermiculatus}) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The name is also applied to other plants of the same family, as several species of {Atriplex} and {Obione}.