"Half the French words used affectedly by Melantha in Dryden's
"Marriage a-la-Mode," as innovations in our language, are now in common
use: chagrin, double-entendre, Èclaircissement, embarras, Èquivoque,
foible, grimace, naÔvete, ridicule. All these words, which she learns
by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use." I. Disraeli.
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Gri*mace", v. i. To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make
faces. H. Martineau.
Gri*maced" (?), a. Distorted; crabbed.
Gri*mal"kin (?), n. [For graymalkin; gray + malkin.] An old cat, esp. a
she-cat. J. Philips.
Grime (?), n. [Cf. Dan. grim, griim, lampblack, soot, grime, Icel. grma
mask, sort of hood, OD. grijmsel, grimsel, soot, smut, and E. grimace.]
Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
Grime, v. t. To sully or soil deeply; to dirt. Shak.
Grim"i*ly (?), adv. In a grimy manner.
Grim"i*ness n. The state of being grimy.