3. A hard student; a dig. [College Slang]

Grind"ed, obs. p. p. of Grind. Ground. Sir W. Scott.

||Grin*de"li*a (?), n. [NL. Named after D. H. Grindel, a Russian.]

||(Med.) The dried stems and leaves of tarweed (Grindelia), used as a

||remedy in asthma and bronchitis.

Grind"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, grinds.

2. One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a

molar.

3. (Zoˆl.) The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia; --

called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like

a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes.

Grinder's asthma, phthisis, or rot (Med.), a lung disease produced by

the mechanical irritation of the particles of steel and stone given off

in the operation of grinding.

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