or
generally against an enemy otherwise difficult to reach. A number of
grenades, moreover, being quilted together with their fuzes outwards,
called a "bouquet," is fired short distances with good effect from
mortars in the latter stages of a siege.

GRENADIERS. Formerly the right company of each battalion, composed of
the largest men, and originally equipped for using hand-grenades.
Now-a-days the companies of a regiment are equalized in size and other
matters; and the title in the British army remains only to the fine
regiment of grenadier guards.

GRENADO. The old name for a live shell. Thuanus says that they were
first used at the siege of Wacklindonck, near Gueldres; and that their
inventor, in an experiment in Venice, occasioned the burning of
two-thirds of that city.

GREVE. A low flat sandy shore; whence _graving_ is derived.

GREY-FRIARS. A name given to the oxen of Tuscany, with which the
Mediterranean fleet was supplied.

GREY-HEAD. A fish of the haddock kind, taken on the coast of Galloway.

GREYHOUND. A hammock with so little bedding as to be unfit for stowing
in the nettings.

GRIAN. A Gaelic term for the bottom, whether of river, lake, or sea.

GRIBAN. A small two-masted vessel of Normandy.

GRID. The diminutive of _gridiron_.

GRIDIRON. A solid timber stage or frame, formed of cross-beams of wood,
for receiving a ship with a falling tide, in order that her bottom may
be examined. The Americans also use for a similar purpose an apparatus
called a _screw-dock_, and another known as the _hydraulic-dock_.

GRIFFIN, OR GRIFF. A name given to Europeans during the first year of
their arrival in India; it has become a general term for an
inexperienced youngster.

GRIG. Small eels.

GRILL, TO. To broil on the bars of the galley-range, as implied by its
French derivation.

GRILSE. One of the salmon tribe, generally considered to be a young
salmon on the return from its first sojourn at the sea; though by some
still supposed to be a distinct fish.

GRIN AND BEAR IT. The stoical resignation to unavoidable hardship,
which, being heard on board ship by Lord Byron, produced the fine stanza
in "Childe Harold," commencing "Existence might be borne."

GRIND. A half kink in a hempen cable.

GRIP. The Anglo-Saxon _grep_. The handle of a sword; also a small ditch
or drain. To hold, as "the anchor grips." Also, a peculiar groove in
rifled ordnance.

GRIPE. Is generally formed by the scarph of the stem