Толковый словарь английского языка - grease
Grease
grease
I. noun Etymology: Middle English grese, from Anglo-French gresse, greisse, creisse, from Vulgar Latin *crassia, from Latin crassus fat Date: 13th century 1. rendered animal fat, oily matter, a thick lubricant, wool as it comes from the sheep retaining the natural oils or fats, ~less adjective ~proof adjective II. transitive verb (~d; greasing) Date: 14th century to smear or daub with ~, to lubricate with ~, to soil with ~, to hasten the process or progress of
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n. & v. --n. 1 oily or fatty matter esp. as a lubricant. 2 the melted fat of a dead animal. 3 oily matter in unprocessed wool. --v.tr. smear or lubricate with grease. Phrases and idioms grease-gun a device for pumping grease under pressure to a particular point. grease the palm of colloq. bribe. like greased lightning colloq. very fast. Derivatives greaseless adj. Etymology: ME f. AF grece, gresse, OF graisse ult. f. L crassus (adj.) fat ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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