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Meaning of GREE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Gree\, n. [F. gr['e]. See Grateful, and cf. {Agree.}]
    1. 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.] --Chaucer.
             Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke.
                                                   --Fairfax.
    2. Rank; degree; position. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer.
             He is a shepherd great in gree.       --Spnser.
    3. The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i.
       e., to carry off the prize. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer.
    
  2. \Gree\, v. i. [From {Agree.}]
    To agree. [Obs.] --Fuller.
    
  3. \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.
    
 
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