| grease | 1. To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon. 2. To bribe; to corrupt with presents. "The greased advocate that grinds the poor." (Dryden) 3. To cheat or cozen; to overreach. 4. (Ear) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. To grease in the hand, to corrupt by bribes. Origin: Greased; Greasing. 1. Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind. 2. <veterinary> 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. <botany> A scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) 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. Origin: OE. Grese, grece, F. Graisse; akin to gras fat, greasy, fr. LL. Grassus thick, fat, gross, L. Crassus. Cf. Crass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| grease heel | Initially, lesions of horsepox occurring in the skin of the flexor surface of the fetlock of the horse, now frequently applied to any weeping, eczematous condition of that area. Synonym: scratches. Painful heel, a condition in which bearing weight on the heel causes pain of varying severity. Synonym: calcaneodynia, calcodynia. Prominent heel, a condition marked by a tender swelling on the os calcis due to a thickening of the periosteum or fibrous tissue covering the back of the os calcis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| greaseless cream | An oil-in-water emulsion containing potassium, ammonium, or sodium stearate with water and holding in emulsified form more or less free stearic acid; it also contains a hygroscopic ingredient such as glycerol, and a small amount of a fatty ingredient; it leaves a protective, invisible film of stearic acid on the skin. Synonym: greaseless cream. (05 Mar 2000) |