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Webster 1913 Edition


Grig

Grig

(grĭg)
,
Noun.
[Cf. Sw.
kräk
little creature, reptile; or D.
kriek
cricket, E.
cricket
.]
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A cricket or grasshopper.
[Prov. Eng.]
(b)
Any small eel.
(c)
The broad-nosed eel. See
Glut
.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
Heath.
[Prov. Eng.]
Audrey.
As merry as a grig
[etymology uncertain]
, a saying supposed by some to be a corruption of “As merry as a Greek; ” by others, to be an allusion to the cricket.

Webster 1828 Edition


Grig

GRIG

,
Noun.
A small eel; the sand ell.
1.
A merry creature.
2.
Health.