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▪ I. † grue, n.1 Obs.
Also 4 grwe, 5 grew, 5, 9 Sc. gru.
[Commonly taken to be a. OF. gru meal, grain (see gruel); but there is no trace in OF. of the sense ‘particle’.
The phrase ‘not a grue’ has a curious resemblance to the Gr. οὐδὲ γρῦ, adopted by the Latin comedians as ne gry quidem (see gry); but it is difficult to see how this could have come into ME. and mod.Sc. use.]
With negatives: not a (one) grue, no grue: not an atom, not a whit.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2251, I schal gruch þe no grwe. 13..St. Erkenwald 319 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1887) 273, I folwe þe in þe fader nome & his fre childes & of þe gracious holy goste—& not one grue lenger. a1400–50Alexander 3270 We had bene drawen..into disspaire clene, And of þe godness of god noȝt a grew [Dublin MS. dele] traisted. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1939 Where as þer is but smal or naght a gru. 1825–80Jamieson, Gru, a particle, an atom. No a gru of meal, not a particle of meal..He has na a gru of sense.
▪ II. grue, n.2 rare.|gruː|
In 6 gru.
[ad. L. gru-em, grus crane, or a. F. grue.]
A crane.
1595–6J. Burel Pilgr. in J. Watson Collect. Poems (1706) ii. 27 The Gru befoir me thair appeirs, Quhois legs wer lang and syde.
▪ III. † grue, n.3 dial. Obs.
[? a. OF. gru meal: see gruel.]
A kind of meal cake made in Cheshire.
1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. xxiv. 233 Had Galen seen the Oaten Cakes of the North; the Janocks of Lancashire..and the Grues of Cheshire, he would have confessed that Oates and Oatmeal are..meat..for tall, fair and strong men.
▪ IV. grue, n.4 Sc.|gruː|
Also grou.
[f. grue v.1]
The action of grue v.1; shivering, shuddering; a shiver, shudder.
1820Edinb. Mag. May 423 A seikenan' grou cam ower my heart, I swarf't amang his hands. 1867N. Macleod Starling xiii, The Sergeant experienced what is called in Scotland a grue—the sort of shiver one feels in a nightmare. 1899Daily News 9 Nov. 8/6 Her new book..lacks nothing by which to give its readers a ‘grue’.
▪ V. grue, n.5 north. dial.|gruː|
Also gru, grew.
? Ice in flakes, or detached pieces.
1835Farquharson in Phil. Trans. CXXV. 330 [see ground-grue in ground n. 18]. Ibid. 333 At this rapid, the whole bottom..was covered with silvery gru. Ibid. 334 A number of pieces of loose gru. 1839Douglas in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 7. 185 An immense quantity of grew, incompact ice, floated down. Ibid. 187 The frost..catching the light floating grew, makes a chance of obstruction. 1891Scott. Leader 3 Feb. 7/1 The ‘grue’ floating down the Tweed.
▪ VI. grue, v.1 Sc. and north. dial.|gruː|
Forms: 3–4 gru, 4–7 grow, 5, 9 grue, 6 grou, 5–6, 9 growe. pa. tense 4 grew, greuyt, 4–5 growyt, -it.
[Not recorded in OE. or ON.; cognate with the synonymous OHG. in-grûên (MHG. grûwen, mod.G. grauen), Du. gruwen, Da. grue OSw. grwa gröywa (mod.Sw. grufva now only refl. to grieve).]
1. intr. To feel terror or horror, shudder, tremble; quake; to shrink from something; to be troubled in heart.
a1300Cursor M. 7983 Dauid..thoght on his fas philistiens, Gladli wald he þam confund, To ger þam for him gru [Fairf. grow] and grise. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8532 His herte a-geyns hym gros & grew. 1375Barbour Bruce xvii. 686 Thair hertis than begouth till grow. Ibid. xx. 517 At tresoune growyt [so M.S. E.; MS. C. grevit, ed. 1616 groowed] he so gretly, That na tratour mycht be hym by. c1450Holland Howlat xxxv, To James Lord Dowglas thow the gre gaif, To ga with the kingis hart; thairwith he nocht growit. 1513Douglas æneis xii. xiii. 110 [Scho] Can fle, and flaf, and maid hym for to grow. 1674Ray N.C. Words 23, ‘I grow’, I am troubled. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 142 Garrin' Sir Freir growe in his skin Wi' ane prophetic dreid. 1893Stevenson Catriona 14, I begin to grue at the sound of it.
b. Of the body: To shiver, shudder.
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. viii. (Preach. Swallow) xxvi, My flesche growis, my bodie quaikis all. a1605Montgomerie Sonn. iv. 7 It garis my body grou, To tell it nou. 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xi, He..said things that garr'd folk's flesh grue.
¶c. To thrill.
a1849H. Coleridge Poems (1850) II. 276 His every member grueing with delight.
†2. impers. it grues me: I shudder, tremble, quake; I shrink from something. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce xv. 541 Swa with his fayis dred wes he That thame grevit till heir his name. c1460Play Sacram. 155 To do agen thy entent yt shuld grue me yll.
▪ VII. † grue, v.2 Obs.
[f. grue n.2]
intr. Of a crane: To utter its characteristic cry.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 310/2 The Crane grueth.
▪ VIII. grue
see grew. |