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Greybeard (A). An earthen pot for holding spirits; a large stone jar. Also an old man. (Bellarmine.)

"We will give a cup of distilled waters ... unto the next pilgrim that comes over; and ye may keep for the purpose the grunds of the last greybeard." - Sir W. Scott: The Monastery, chap. ix.

Greycoats Russian soldiers of the line, who wear grey coats.

"You might think of him thus calm and collected charging his rifle for one more shot at the advancing greycoats." - Besant and Rice: By Celia's Arbour, chap. xiv.

Greyhound "A greyhounde shoulde be heded like a snake, And neked like a Drake; Foted like a Kat, Tayled like a Rat; Syded like a Teme, Chyned like a Beme." (Dame Berner.)

"Syded like a teme," probably means both sides alike; a plough-team being meant.

Greyhound A public- house sign, in honour of Henry VII., whose badge it was.

Greys The Scotch Greys. The 2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons, so called because they are mounted on grey horses.

Gridiron Emblematic of St. Laurence, because in his martyrdom he was broiled to death on a gridiron. In allusion thereto the church of St. Laurence Jewry, near Guildhall, has a gilt gridiron for a vane. The gridiron is also an attribute of St. Faith, who was martyred like St. Laurence; and St. Vincent, who was partially roasted on a gridiron covered with spikes, A.D. 258. (See Escurial.)

   It is said that St. Laurence uttered the following doggerel during his martyrdom:
"This side enough is roasted, turn me, tyrant, eat,
And see if raw or roasted I make the better meat."

Grief To come to grief. To be ruined; to fail in business. As lots of money is the fulness of joy, so the want of it is the grief of griefs. The Americans call the dollar "almighty."

Grievance-monger One who is always raking up or talking about his own or his party's grievances, public or private.