grise

Properly the plural of gree (“a step”).

• greeze, greese

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz

grise (plural grises)

1. (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Every grise of fortune / Is smoothed by that below.

grise (plural grises)

1. Alternative form of grice (a pig)

• Resig, geris, gires, gries

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊ʁiːsə]
• Rhymes: -iːsə

grise c

1. indefinite plural of gris

From gris (“pig”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊ʁisə]

grise (imperative gris, infinitive at grise, present tense griser, past tense grisede, perfect tense er/har griset)

1. dirty
2. mess up

• svine

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁiz/

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• Homophone: grises

grise

1. feminine singular of gris

• gésir, gires, Régis

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grise

1. feminine singular of gris

From gris (“pig”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡriːsə/

grise (imperative gris, present tense griser, passive grises, simple past grisa or griset or griste, past participle grisa or griset or grist, present participle grisende)

1. to farrow, give birth to piglets (of a female pig)
2. grise til - to dirty, to mess up

• svine

• “grise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “grise” in The Ordnett Dictionary

• grisa

From gris (“pig”).

grise (present tense grisar, past tense grisa, past participle grisa, passive infinitive grisast, present participle grisande, imperative grise/gris)

1. to farrow, give birth to piglets (of a female pig)
2. grise til - to dirty, to mess up

• svine

• “grise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

grīse

1. first-person singular present indicative of grīsan

grise

1. inflection of grisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative