Word Meanings - GREASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Same as Grease wood . -- Grease moth

Additional info about word: GREASE

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. Same as Grease wood . -- Grease moth , a pyralid moth whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc. -- Grease wood , a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub 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. (more info) fat, greasy, fr. LL. grassus thick, fat, gross, L. crassus. Cf. 1. Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GREASE)

• Lubricate
• Oil
• ease
• grease
• levigate
• gloze
• glaze

Related words: (words related to GREASE)

• GLOZER
  A flatterer. Gifford .
• GREASE COCK; GREASE CUP
  A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.
• GREASE
  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. Same as Grease wood . -- Grease moth
• LUBRICATE
  1. To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young. 2. To apply a lubricant
• GLAZE
  To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to , to modify the effect. (more info) 1. To furnish with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon. 2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with
• GLAZEN
  Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. Wyclif.
• GLAZER
  1. One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like. 2. A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung
• GREASER
  1. One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc. 2. A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
• GLOZE
  1. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. Chaucer. A false, glozing parasite. South. So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton. 2. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. Shak.
• LEVIGATE
  Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated. Sir. T. Elyot.
• AMBERGREASE
  See AMBERGRIS
• DEGLAZE
  To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.
• OVERGLAZE
  Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware. Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.
• DEGREASE
  To remove grease or fatty matter from, as wool or silk.
• UNGLAZE
  To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window.
• UNDERGLAZE
  Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.
• BEGREASE
  To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.