Greek
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Greek \Greek\, n.
1. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian;
also, the language of Greece.
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2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [Slang]
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Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat
does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek.
--Sat. Rev.
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3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me.
[Colloq.]
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Greek \Greek\, a. [AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf.
{Grecian}.]
Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
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{Greek calends}. See under {Greek calends} in the vocabulary.
{Greek Church} (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part
of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western
Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk
of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is
the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia.
The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called
also the {Byzantine Church}.
{Greek cross}. See Illust. (10) Of {Cross}.
{Greek Empire}. See {Byzantine Empire}.
{Greek fire}, a combustible composition which burns under
water, the constituents of which are supposed to be
asphalt, with niter and sulphur. --Ure.
{Greek rose}, the flower campion.
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from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
greek
greeking
1. <text, graphics> To display text as abstract dots and lines
in order to give a preview of layout without actually being
legible. This is faster than drawing the characters correctly
which may require scaling or other transformations. Greeking
is particularly useful when displaying a reduced image of a
document where the text would be too small to be legible on
the display anyway.
A related technique is {lorem ipsum}.
(2006-09-18)
from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Greek
Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed
between "Greek" and "Grecian" (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek
by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as
opposed to a Jew (Rom. 2:9, 10). The latter, meaning properly
"one who speaks Greek," is a foreign Jew opposed to a home Jew
who dwelt in Palestine.
The word "Grecians" in Acts 11:20 should be "Greeks," denoting
the heathen Greeks of that city, as rendered in the Revised
Version according to the reading of the best manuscripts
("Hellenes").
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "Greek":
Aesopian language, Babel, affiliate, argot, associate, babble,
belonger, brother, cant, card-carrier, card-carrying member,
cardholder, charter member, cipher, clubber, clubman, clubwoman,
code, committeeman, comrade, conventioneer, conventioner,
conventionist, cryptogram, double Dutch, drivel,
dues-paying member, enlistee, enrollee, fellow, fraternity man,
garble, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook,
guildsman, honorary member, initiate, insider, jabber, jabberwocky,
jargon, joiner, jumble, life member, member, noise, nonsense,
one of us, pledge, scramble, secret language, sister,
skimble-skamble, slang, socius, sorority girl, sorority woman
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