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Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro In all the raging impotence of woe.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 526...
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 27...
Grignard: A fictitious class of compounds often found on organic exams and never in real life.
-- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
grilf: // n. Girl-friend. Like {newsfroup} and {filk}, a typo incarnated as a new word.
Seems to have originated sometime in 1992. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Grim death. -- Philip Massinger (1584-1640) -- The Roman Actor, Act iv, Sc. 2
grind crank: n. A mythical accessory to a terminal.
A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster....
Grind the faces of the poor. -- Old Testament -- Isaiah iii, 15
grind: vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley] To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts (if available), etc.
This usage was ...
<<<<<GRIN>>>>> -- Evil Grin #13
Grinin' Like A Mule Eatin' Bria

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