gree

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gree - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gree \Gree\, n. [F. gr['e]. See Grateful, and cf. Agree.]
     1. Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in
        such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that
        is, to take favorably. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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              Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke.
                                                    --Fairfax.
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     2. Rank; degree; position. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer.
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              He is a shepherd great in gree.       --Spenser.
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     3. The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i.
        e., to carry off the prize. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer.
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  Gree \Gree\, v. i. [From Agree.]
     To agree. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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  Gree \Gree\, n.; pl. Grees (gr[=e]z); obs. plurals Greece
     (gr[=e]s) Grice (gr[imac]s or gr[=e]s), Grise, Grize
     (gr[imac]z or gr[=e]z), etc. [OF. gr['e], F. grade. See
     Grade.]
     A step.
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gree - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  GREE, obsolete. It signified satisfaction; as, to make gree to the parties, 
  is, to agree with, or satisfy them for, an offence done.