▪ I. † gristbite, n. Obs.
In 3 gristbat.
[OE. gristbite, *gristbát, f. grist n.1 + bite, bát, nouns of action f. b{iacu}tan bite v.]
Gnashing of teeth.
| c 1205 Lay. 5189 Þer wes muchel gristbat. |
▪ II. gristbite, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 gristbitian, -bittian, -bátian, 3 gristbeatien, -betien, grisbatien, -patien, 4 grisbite, -bate, 9 grisbet, grizbite.
[OE. gristbitian, -bátian, f. gristbite, *gristbát: see prec.]
intr. To gnash the teeth.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. ix. [xi.] (1890) 184 He..ongon..mid his toðum gristbitian. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark ix. 18 Fæmeð & gristbitteð mið toðum [Rushw. grist-bites, Ags. Gosp. gristbitað, Hatton grist-byteð]. a 1000 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 242/35 Fremit, gristbataþ. c 1000 ælfric Gram. xxvi. (Z.) 157 Strideo oððe strido, ic cearciᵹe oððe ic gristbitiᵹe. a 1225 Ancr. R. 326 On hwam ure Louerd weop, ase þe Gospel telleð, and grisbatede. a 1225 Juliana 66 Swa þe reue gromede þat he grispatede aȝein [Bodl. MS. gristbetede]. Ibid. 69 [He]..feng on to feamin & gristbeatien [Royal MS. grispatien] grisliche up o þis meoke meiden. c 1340 Cursor M. 19354 (Trin.) Þenne bigon þei..wiþ her teeþ to grisbate [v. rr. gnast, gnaist(e]. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 377 He gan to ligge and to fome, to grisbite and to grynde wiþ þe teeþ. 1847–78 Halliwell, Grisbet, to make a wry face. Somerset. 1866 Thornbury Greatheart II. v. 61 Mrs. Tolpedden achieved a dashing cannon, and then gave a miss, at which she ‘grisbetted’, as Milly called it. 1890 Gloucestersh. Gloss., Grizbite, to gnash the teeth. |