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greave

griv
WordNet
  1. (n) greave
    armor plate that protects legs below the knee
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Greave
    A grove.
  2. Greave
    Armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural.
  3. Greave
    (Naut.) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) greave
    See greeve.
  2. (n) greave
    A bush; a tree; a grove.
  3. (n) greave
    A bough; a branch.
  4. (n) greave
    A ditch or trench.
  5. greave
    See grave.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Greave
    grēv (Spens.) a groove, a grove.
  2. Greave
    . See Greeve.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OF. grees,; cf. Sp. grevas,

Usage in the news

John Greaves was at the UCLA Medical Center Hospital on a Thursday and wasn't supposed to check out until the weekend. dailynews.com

One-on-One with Magnus Greaves . blackenterprise.com

TheCASHFLOW Founder and CEO Magnus Greaves . blackenterprise.com

Greaves , an R&B singer whose 1969 hit "Take a Letter, Maria" reached No. nytimes.com

Greaves was an assembler for Kingwood in East Palestine. salemnews.net

Walker Radford Greaves , a native Mobilian, died Saturday. blog.al.com

During World War II Greaves joined the US Navy and served as a flight instructor in Corpus Christi, Texas. blog.al.com

Jack Smith talks about his experiences as a medic and soldier at the Ray Greaves Association meeting. nj.com

Albert Einstein Academy JV coach John Greaves fighting two battles. dailynews.com

Actors' Equity Association announced that Emmy-Award winning director, producer, actor and writer William Greaves is the recipient of the 2012 Paul Robeson Award. playbill.com

TheCASHFLOW Founder and CEO Magnus Greaves. blackenterprise.com

Magnus Greaves, CEO of TheCASHFLOW, explains what makes a great elevator pitch. blackenterprise.com

Greaves, Nguyen Chi Thien, Stan Mudenge, Barbara Pillsbury Milne . ashingtonpost.com

Vinay K Chaudhri, Mark Greaves, Daniel Hansch, Anthony Jameson, Frederik Pfisterer, Aaron Spaulding, and Moritz Weiten. aaai.org

Fielding Greaves is seen at home in San Rafael, Calif on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. marinij.com

Usage in scientific papers

The collection system is designed to inject the positrons in a Greaves-Surko trap .
Intense Source of Slow Positrons

This source was designed to be coupled with a Greaves-Surko trap in order to produce a bright beam of slow positrons (meV to KeV).
Intense Source of Slow Positrons

The system is designed to adapt to a Greaves-Surko trap.
Intense Source of Slow Positrons

Greaves (1980), An n-constraint formulation of the (time dependent) traveling salesman problem, Oper.
Two conjectures such that the proof of any one of them will lead to the proof that P = NP

Type: Variability type from the General Catalog of Variable Stars (Samus , N. N. et al. 2007-2009) or Wils & Greaves (2004). Stars from Wils & Greaves are identifiable as they lack <V> etc. Period in days from Berdnikov (2006– private communication to S.
The Distribution of the Elements in the Galactic Disk III. A Reconsideration of Cepheids from l = 30 to 250 Degrees

Usage in literature

Hawkins also happened to have a small supply of stale greaves. "Lines in Pleasant Places" by William Senior

He also had bronze greaves upon his legs and a bronze back-plate between his shoulders. "The Children's Bible" by Henry A. Sherman

Miss Greaves is the next. "Valerie" by Frederick Marryat

But Greaves and Graves may also be variants of the official Grieves (Chapter XIX), or may come from Mid. "The Romance of Names" by Ernest Weekley

I imagined Sidney at the Greaves', talking to Mrs. Rennie with that velvety smile in his eyes. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fortunately Martha Greaves was an English Girl Guide. "The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest" by Margaret Vandercook

On the ground are the breast-plate, the greaves and the helmet. "Museum of Antiquity" by L. W. Yaggy

Mr. Samuel Greaves 3 3 0 The Rev. "The History of Dartmouth College" by Baxter Perry Smith

Swiftly the earth-mound rose: but on all sides watchers were planted, Fearful of rush unawares from the well-greaved bands of Achaia. "Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846" by Various

Peregrine Pickle is no great favourite of mine, and Launcelot Greaves was not worthy of the genius of the author. "Hazlitt on English Literature" by Jacob Zeitlin

Usage in poetry
Horse and crested helmet gone,
Greaves and shield and mail,
Caroling loud the knight walked on,
For he had the Grail;
"The Sangreal" by George MacDonald Author object (244)
And greaved with light of worlds destroyed,
And girt with firmamental gloom,
Abides his far, portended doom
And menace of the warring void.
"The Testimony of the Suns" by George Sterling Author object (248)
Not mine the clamouring tempest to defy,
Tossing the proud crest of my dusky leaves:
Defender of small flowers that trembling lie
Against my barky greaves.
"The City Tree" by Isabella Valancy Crawford Author object (312)
Leave thee there grovelling at their rusted greaves,
These hulking cowards on a painted stage,
Who, with imperial pomp and laurel leaves,
Show their Marengo--one man in a cage.
"To A Certain Nation" by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Author object (258)
Did I not watch him while he let
His armourer just brace his greaves,
Rivet his hauberk, on the fret
The while! His foot… my memory leaves
No least stamp out nor how anon
He pulled his ringing gauntlets on.
"Count Gismond--Aix in Provence" by Robert Browning Author object (563)