grease

[grease]

A thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)

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

Noun
the state of being covered with unclean things

Noun
a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)

Verb
lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels"


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

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.

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

v. t.
To bribe; to corrupt with presents.

v. t.
To cheat or cozen; to overreach.

v. t.
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.


Grease

Grease (gres), 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'94l.), 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.

Grease

Grease , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greased (grezd or gresd); 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.
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.

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

To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.

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Usage Examples

The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

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Other Usage Examples

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

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