Lexicographical Neighbors of Gryces
Literary usage of Gryces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton (1882)
"I say, said the Scotchman, I will have a bare heed, like a heed that follows the
sow that has gryces. Sir, said the Carver, I don't know a sow and ..."
2. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"... I will haue a bare-head, sicke an head as doth follow a Sew that hath gryces.
... that will greet and grone, and her gryces will run after her, ..."
3. A Book of English Prose: Character and Incident, 1387-1649 by William Ernest Henley, Charles Whibley (1894)
"And also from the ground up to top of that wall were gryces 2 ordained and disposed
fair and marvellously, by the which the joyful company that was come in ..."
4. Publications by Scottish History Society (1894)
"... at 38h 4d a day is . .05 0 7 to lissie to count for . . . .780 to wm douglas
to pay a millar for 4 gryces . 2 16 6 to david fyfe for letting blood of me ..."
5. Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1858)
"... in William Davidson's house, flesher ADO. in Edinburgh, of thirteen gryces,
of the whilk there was ane a monster. It had the gruntle [snout] in the ..."
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