The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grice \Grice\ (gr[imac]s), n. [OE. gris, grise; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. gr?ss, Sw. gris, Dan. grus, also Gr. ?, Skr. ghrshvi, boar. Cf. Grise, Griskin.] A little pig. [Written also grise.] [Scot.]
Grice \Grice\, n.
See Gree, a step. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
Gree \Gree\, n.; pl. Grees (gr[=e]z); obs. plurals Greece (gr[=e]s) Grice (gr[imac]s or gr[=e]s), Grise, Grize (gr[imac]z or gr[=e]z), etc. [OF. gr['e], F. grade. See Grade.] A step.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context now Scotland English) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct. Etymology 2
vb. (context UK rail transport slang English) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting. Etymology 3
n. (context obsolete English) A gree; a step.
Wikipedia
Grice may refer to:
- Grice, an extinct breed of pig from Scotland and Ireland
The grice was a type of swine found in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and in Ireland. It became extinct, surviving longest in the Shetland Isles, where it disappeared in the late nineteenth century. It was also known as the Highland, Hebridean or Irish pig.
Usage examples of "grice".
No: he walked at once from the counter to the door--turned round there, and asked where Joanna Grice lived.
Joanna Grice, a thin, dwarfish old woman, poring over a big book which looked like a Bible.
And yet, the next question that he put to Joanna Grice seemed to pierce her to the quick, to try her to the heart, as no questioning had tried her before.
According to what Zack had said, there was apparently some incomprehensible confusion and mystery in connection with a Hair Bracelet and the young woman whose extraordinary likeness to what Mary Grice had been in her girlhood, had first suggested to him the purpose he was now pursuing.
Before he fairly decided on his plan of action, he debated with himself the propriety of returning to Dibbledean, and forcing from the old woman, Joanna Grice, more information than she had been willing to give him at their first interview.
Dibbledean, and compelling Joanna Grice to tell more than she had told at their last interview, occurred to him.
Matthew Grice stood by the garden paling, at the place where he had halted from the first.
Surely, Bangbury was the place where Joanna Grice had told him that Mary was buried!
While she was speaking the few simple words which told how she had sat down by the road-side, and suckled the half-starved infant of the forsaken and dying Mary Grice, Mat suddenly reached out his heavy, trembling hand, and took fast hold of hers.
Tatt, to possess himself of any fragments of evidence which Joanna Grice might have left behind her in writing?
Tatt when Matthew, appearing in the character of a client at the desolate office door, actually announced himself as the sole surviving son of old Joshua Grice, flowed out in such a torrent of congratulatory words, that Mat was at first literally overwhelmed by them.
Matthew Grice was traveling backwards and forwards between town and town in the midland counties, the life led by his young friend and comrade in the metropolis, was by no means devoid of incident and change.
They were written on the same day which had been occupied by Matthew Grice in visiting Mr.
But the hectic flush of triumph and pleasure which his interview with the Deputation had called into his cheeks, still colored them as brightly as ever, when Matthew Grice entered the room.
Matthew Grice took the first turning he came to, which led him out of Baregrove Square.