gree

gree
noun /ɡɹiː/
a) Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).

"My grand-daughter doesnt like to be kept waitin when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."

b) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.

bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.


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