Greþede, 2003. Explained as _greeted_, _accosted_, by Sir F. Madden; but the use of þ (not th) renders this doubtful. May it not signify _treated_, _handled_ (lit. _arrayed_), from the _vb._ greyþe? Grethet. _See_ Greyþe. Greting, _n._ S. weeping, 166. Grette, _pa. t._ S. accosted, greeted, 452, 1811, 2625. _Gret_, _part. pa._ accosted, greeted, 2290. Greu, _pa. t._ S. grew, prospered, 2333; _pl._ grewe, 2975. Greue, _v._ S. to grieve, 2953. Greyþe, _v._ S. [gerǽdian] to prepare, 1762. _Greyþede_, _pa. t._ prepared, 706. _Greyþed_, _part. pa._ prepared, made ready, 714. _Grethet_, 2615. Laȝam. l. 4414. Sir Tr. p. 33. Sc. _Graith_. V. Jam. and Gl. Lynds. Greyue, _n._ S. [_geréfa_] greave, magistrate, 1771. _Greyues_, _g. c._ greave’s, 1749. _Greyues_, _pl._ 266. V. Spelm. in v. _Grafio_, and Hickes, Diss. Epist. p. 21, n. p. 151. Grim, _adj._ S. cruel, savage, fierce, 155, 680, 2398, 2655, 2761. R. Br., Rits. M. R. _See_ Beowulf, l. 204. Grim, _n._ [smut, dirt, 2497. The explanation is that Godard, on being flayed, did not bear his sentence as one of rank and blood would have done, but began to roar out as if he were mere _dirt_ or _mud_, i.e. one of the dregs of the common herd. This curious expression is ascertained to have the meaning here assigned to it by observing (1) that _grim_ and _gore_ must be substantives, and (2) that they must be of like signification; but chiefly by comparing the line with others similar to it. Now the context, in the couplet following, repeats that “men might hear him roar, that _foul vile_ wretch, a mile off;” and in l. 682, Godard calls Grim “_a foul dirt_, a thrall, and a churl.” The author clearly uses _dirt_ and _churl_ as synonyms. The word _grim_ is the Danish _grim_, soot, lampblack, smut, dirt, answering to the English _grime_; see _grime_ in Atkinson’s Glossary of the Cleveland dialect. _Gore_ is the A.S. _gór_, wet mud, or clotted blood, in the latter of which senses it is still used. See “_Gore. Limus_” in Prompt. Parv., and Way’s note.] Grip, _n._ griffin, 572. Web. _Graip_, Sc., V. Jam. The plural _gripes_ is in Laȝam. l. 28062, and K. Alisaund. 4880. Swed. _grip_. Grip, _n._ S. [_græp_] ditch, trench, 2102. _Gripes_, _pl._ 1924. V. Jam. in v. _Grape_; and Skinner, v. _Groop_. Cf. Swed. _grop_. Gripen, _pr. t. pl._ S. gripe, grasp, 1790. _Gripeth_, _imp._ gripe ye, 1882. _Grop_, _pa. t._ grasped, 1776, 1871, 1890, &c. Grith, _n._ S. peace, 61, 511. _Grith-sergeans_, 267, legal officers to preserve the peace. These must not be confounded with the _Justitiarii Pacis_ established in the beginning of Edw. III. reign, and called _Gardiani Pacis_. V. Spelm. in v. Cf. Icel. _grið_. Grom, _n._ male child, youth, 790; young man, 2472. Belgic _grom_ has the same sense of _boy_. Cf. Icel. _gromr_, homuncio. So in _Sir Degore_, A. iv. He lyft up the shete anone And loked upon the lytle _grome._ It generally elsewhere signifies _lad_, _page_.