GREEN BAG. An attorney: those gentlemen carry their clients' deeds in a green bag; and, it is said, when they have no deeds to carry, frequently fill them with an old pair of breeches, or any other trumpery, to give themselves the appearance of business. GREEN GOWN. To give a girl a green gown; to tumble her on the grass. GREEN SICKNESS. The disease of maids occasioned by celibacy. GREENHEAD. An inexperienced young man. GREENHORN. A novice on the town, an undebauched young fellow, just initiated into the society of bucks and bloods. GREENWICH BARBERS. Retailers of sand from the pits at and about Greenwich, in Kent: perhaps they are styled barbers, from their constant shaving the sandbanks. GREENWICH GOOSE. A pensioner of Greenwich Hospital. GREGORIAN TREE. The gallows: so named from Gregory Brandon, a famous finisher of the law; to whom Sir William Segar, garter king of arms (being imposed on by Brooke, a herald), granted a coat of arms. GREY BEARD. Earthen jugs formerly used in public house for drawing ale: they had the figure of a man with a large beard stamped on them; whence probably they took the name: see BEN JONSON'S PLAYS, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, &c. &c. Dutch earthen jugs, used for smuggling gin on the coasts of Essex and Suffolk, are at this time called grey beards. GREY MARE. The grey mare is the better horse; said of a woman who governs her husband. GREY PARSON. A farmer who rents the tithes of the rector or vicar. GRIG. A farthing. A merry grig; a fellow as merry as a grig: an allusion to the apparent liveliness of a grig, or young eel. GRIM. Old Mr. Grim; death. GRIMALKIN. A cat: mawkin signifies a hare in Scotland. GRIN. To grin in a glass case; to be anatomized for murder: the skeletons of many criminals are preserved in glass cases, at Surgeons' hall. GRINAGOG, THE CAT'S UNCLE. A foolish grinning fellow, one who grins without reason. GRINDERS. Teeth. Gooseberry grinder; the breech. Ask bogey, the gooseberry grinder; ask mine a-se. TO GRIND. To have carnal knowledge of a woman. GROATS. To save his groats; to come off handsomely: at the universities, nine groats are deposited in the hands of an academic officer, by every person standing for a degree; which if the depositor obtains with honour, the groats are returned to him. GROG. Rum and water. Grog was first introduced into the navy about the year 1740, by Admiral Vernon, to prevent the sailors intoxicating themselves with their allowance of rum, or spirits. Groggy, or groggified; drunk. GROG-BLOSSOM. A carbuncle, or pimple in the face, caused by drinking. GROGGED. A grogged horse; a foundered horse. GROGHAM. A horse. CANT. GROPERS. Blind men; also midwives. GROUND SWEAT. A grave. GROUND SQUIRREL. A hog, or pig. SEA TERM. GRUB. Victuals. To grub; to dine.