grice

Over a quarter of a century ago I was a jolly, singing, hoop-pee mill-boy, and carried many a "grice" to William Easley's tub-mill on "Little Fish River," kept by my old friend Larkin Snow.

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

So that an experienced cavalier, knowing how to lay, as our Scottish phrase runs, ‘the head of the sow to the tail of the grice,’ might get out of the country the pay whilk he could not obtain from the

A Legend of Montrose 2008

I agree, the refiners are holding all of us up! lewis w. grice

Letter to Any Politician Who Gives a ‘You Know What’ 2008

Gri feeled of the scripes he would escipe if by grice he had luck enoupes.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Some figures of gas consumption from India: Boiling 1 l of water: 40 l; boiling 5 l of water 165 l; cooking 500 grice: 140 l; cooking 1000 g rice: 175 l; cooking 350 9 pulses: 270

14. Appendix 1991

Grice -- why not? plural of mouse, mice -- grice, we say, are growing more absent, and therefore dearer.

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 Various

"Marcassin, a young wild boare; a shoot or grice."

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

Head of the sow to the tail of the grice, to take the good with the bad.

The Black Dwarf 1898

I'se ne'er deny I hae won by ye mony a fair pund sterling --- Sae, an it come to the warst, I'se een lay the head o 'the sow to the tail o' the grice. ''

Rob Roy 1887

So that an experienced cavalier, knowing how to lay, as our Scottish phrase runs, ` the head of the sow to the tail of the grice, might get out of the country the pay whilk he could not obtain from the Emperor. ''

A Legend of Montrose 1871