Greek

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Greek
       adj : of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks;
             "Greek mythology"; "a grecian robe" [syn: {Grecian}, {Hellenic}]
       n 1: the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
            [syn: {Hellenic}, {Hellenic language}]
       2: a native or inhabitant of Greece [syn: {Hellene}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  greek
       
          1.  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.
       
          2. {lorem ipsum}.
       
          (1999-06-27)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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").