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noun

Gree n.

Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably. (Obs.) "Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke."

Rank; degree; position. (Obs. or Scot.) "He is a shepherd great in gree."

The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize. (Obs. or Scot.)

Gree n. (pl. grees; obs. plurals greece, grice, grise, grize, etc) A step.

verb

Gree v. i. To agree. (Obs.)

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... wouldn't 'gree for us to git married 'cause he wanted her to stay on and wuk for him. She warn't but seventeen. My boss-man let us use his hoss and buggy and, Missy, dat fast hoss is what saved de day for us. When ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1 • Works Projects Administration

... an eldern knight, Sat at the King's right knee— "Of a' the clerks by Granta side Sir Patrick bears the gree. ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... pray that come it may— As come it will, for a' that— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bend the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Its coming yet, for a' that— When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for ...

— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... would, mister. I'm er printer by trade, but it don't 'pear to 'gree with me, and I'm on my way to Central America for my health. I believe I'll make a tolerable good pilot, ...

— Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson

... stop at Lammerton Moor for a twelvemonth)—but, though I had a drappie ower the score, Robin was as sober as a judge; for, plague tak him! he kenned what he was doing—he was ower cunnin to drink, and laid himsel out for a quarrel. It was his aim to carry the 'gree' ower a' upon the Moor at everything, that the king, who is said to be as fond o' thae sort o' sports as onybody, might tak notice o' him, and do something for him. There was a cowardliness in the very idea o' such conduct—it showed a fox's heart in the carcase ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various

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