grandmother over, IV, 70, G 2: corruption of, glamer, oer her.
grange-house, III, 360, 116: farm-house.
grat, II, 70, 25; 323, 26, 27; IV, 7, 35; V, [156], 11, 13, pret. of greet, weep.
gravat, II, 283, 21; V, [240], 14: cravat.
graveld green, II, 158, 1: a green with gravel walks? Probably corrupt: in yonder green, B, garden green G.
gravil, I, 350, 18, 19 (pile o the gravil): expounded by Donaldson, Supplement to Jamieson, p. 304, as “the plant graymill or gromwell, of the genus Lithospermum, anciently used in the cure of gravel, hence its name. Said to be used also in producing abortion.” I fear this is somewhat conjectural or even arbitrary. The pile seems to be simply some downy plant (velvety moss) which grows on stones; indeed we are expressly told this, IV, 456, 9, 12: ‘a flower, it grows on gravel greay,’ ‘the pile that grows on gravel green.’ (We have gravel green and gravel grey in the ordinary sense again, I, 347, 1.)
greaf, grave.
greahondes, grehoundis, greyhounds.
great, I, 252, 3, 5: groat.
great, IV, 373, 15; V, [176], 16: intimate, high in favor.