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  • gravy
    [OED, the fat and juices which exude from flesh during and after the process of cooking; a dressing for meat
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  • graveyard crab
    [from the belief that it feeds on cadavers] n. a small, pale land crab, Ocypode albicans. =JUNJO (Black)
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  • graveyard bird
    [from the belief that its appearance foretells death] n. a black bird (Antrostomus carolinensis?).= DEAD-PEOPLE BIRD, DEATH BIRD, DEATH MESSENGER,
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  • grater, gritter
    [Atlantic; cf. Brit. dial. North grater to grate EDD, US dial. gritter idem ADD] v. to grate: Had to dig
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  • grass sponge
    [from appearance] n. an inferior kind of sponge, Spongia cerebriformis: 1977 Least desirable were the coarse grass sponges. Only the
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  • grass snake
    [W3 different sp.] n. a foot-long constrictor, Alsophus vudii. = BROWN RACER (Nassau, San Sal.)
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  • grass scorpion
    n. a fish, Scorpaena grandicornis; 1968 (Böhlke 647). cf. POISON TOAD (San Sal., Inagua)
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  • grass lake
    n. a patch of turtle grass (a marine plant, Thalassia testudinum) floating in the open sea. (Mayag. Inagua)
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  • grass bottle
    See GLASS BOTTLE
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  • grass bed
    n. any bed with a mattress made of swamp grass. (Gen.)
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