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grease wool

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grease

  [n. grees; v. grees, greez] noun, verb, greased, greasing.
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–noun
1. the melted or rendered fat of animals, esp. when in a soft state.
2. fatty or oily matter in general; lubricant.
3. Also called grease wool. wool, as shorn, before being cleansed of the oily matter.
4. Also called grease-heel  [grees-heel] . Veterinary Pathology. inflammation of a horse's skin in the fetlock region, attended with an oily secretion.
5. Informal. a bribe.
–verb (used with object)
6. to put grease on; lubricate: to grease the axle of a car.
7. to smear or cover with grease.
8. to cause to occur easily; smooth the way; facilitate.
9. Informal. to bribe.
—Idiom
10. grease someone's palm. palm 1 (def. 19).
Origin:
1250–1300; ME grese, grece, greice < AF grece, gresse, OF craisse (F graisse) < VL *crassia, equiv. to L crass(us) fat, thick + -ia n. suffix

Related forms:
greaseless, adjective
grease⋅less⋅ness, noun
greaseproof, adjective
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grease

  1. n.
    protection money; bribery money. (See also grease (so's) palm.) : See that the commissioner of the park district gets a little grease to help us get the contract.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

grease 
c.1290, from Anglo-Fr. grece, from O.Fr. graisse, from V.L. *crassia "(melted) animal fat, grease," from L. crassus "thick, solid, fat." Verb sense of "ply with bribe or protection money" is 1526, from notion of grease the wheels "make things run smoothly" (c.1440). To grease (someone's) palm is from 1581. Greasy spoon "small cheap restaurant" is from 1925. Greaser, derogatory Amer.Eng. slang for "native Mexican or Latin American," first attested 1849.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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