grue

Etymology 1
From, probably from or  (compare Dutch ), both from , perhaps ultimately an  derivative of , or instead from.

Verb

 * 1)  To be frightened; to shudder with fear.

Noun

 * 1)  A shiver, a shudder.
 * 2) * 1964, Geoffrey Jenkins, (title):
 * A Grue of Ice
 * A Grue of Ice

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1) Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
 * The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
 * There was grue everywhere after the accident
 * 1) * 1996, Linda Badley, Writing Horror and the Body
 * Carrie is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue” hardly need mentioning.
 * 1) * 2002, Carole Nelson Douglas, Chapel Noir
 * “[...] She is quite agreeable to gruesome ghost stories, but appalled by the lust for life.” / “I admit that I am surprised by how well she handles sheer grue, better than I.”
 * 1) * 2004, Talbot Mundy, Guns of the Gods
 * “This is the grue,” said Dick, holding his lantern high. / Its light fell on a circle of skeletons, all perfect, each with its head toward a brass bowl in the center.
 * “This is the grue,” said Dick, holding his lantern high. / Its light fell on a circle of skeletons, all perfect, each with its head toward a brass bowl in the center.

Etymology 3
Probably from ; first used in 's Dying Earth universe in the 1940s, but popularized by the text-based computer game Zork in 1980.

Noun

 * 1) A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.

Etymology 4
. The philosophy sense was to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science. The linguistic sense was as a translation from languages such as Welsh that have a basic cover term that covers both the hues called "green" and "blue" in English.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
 * 2)   A single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as old Welsh and Chinese that lacked a distinction between green and blue.
 * 1)   A single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as old Welsh and Chinese that lacked a distinction between green and blue.
 * 1)   A single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as old Welsh and Chinese that lacked a distinction between green and blue.

Translations

 * Dutch: bloen
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Portuguese: verzul, verul
 * White Hmong: xiav


 * Chambeali: 𑚝𑚯𑚥𑚭
 * Chinali: 𑚝𑚯𑚥𑚭
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Classical Tibetan: སྔོན་པོ
 * Dutch: bloen
 * Egyptian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Guaraní: hovy
 * Japanese:
 * Kaingang: tánh
 * Korean:
 * Ladakhi: སྔོན་པོ
 * Lakota: tȟó
 * Mopan Maya: yaʼax
 * Northern Ndebele: luhlaza
 * Old Tupi: obý
 * Portuguese: verzul, verul
 * Russian: зи́ний
 * Thai:
 * Tswana: tala
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: xiav
 * Xhosa: luhlaza
 * Ye'kwana: seene
 * Zulu: luhlaza

Noun

 * 1)  Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) crane bird
 * 2) crane machine
 * 3)  prostitute, hooker
 * 1)  prostitute, hooker

Etymology 1
From, related to and.

Noun

 * 1) fireplace

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1) To be queasy or nervous in anticipation of something.

Usage notes
Can be used electively with the reflexive pronoun seg.

Etymology
From, related to and.

Noun

 * 1) an open brick fireplace, a hearth

Etymology
In North English, it means riches.

Noun

 * 1) wealth, greed