grease

1. n. Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. v. t. To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon. Source: opted

4. v. t. To bribe; to corrupt with presents. Source: opted

5. v. t. To cheat or cozen; to overreach. Source: opted

6. v. t. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. Source: opted

7. n. a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) Source: wordnet

8. n. anything regarded as making something unclean Source: wordnet

9. v. lubricate with grease Source: wordnet

10. 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 (Zoöl.), 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. 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. (Ear.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. To grease in the hand, to corrupt by bribes. Usher. Source: webster

11. An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinarygreasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness,followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences. Greasebush. (Bot.) Same as Grease wood (below).-- Grease moth (Zoöl.), a pyralid moth (Aglossa pinguinalis) whoselarva eats greasy cloth, etc.-- Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat pricklyshrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundantin alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The nameis also applied to other plants of the same family, as severalspecies of Atriplex and Obione. Source: adambom

12. v:22/n:78 n. a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) v. lubricate with grease Source: ecdict

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