▪ I. grew, n.2 Sc. and north. dial.
(gr(j)uː)
[Shortened form of grew-hound.]
A greyhound.
| 1815 Scott Guy M. xxii, Five grews, and a wheen other dogs. 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 124, I..worry him as if I were a grew, and him a bit leveret. 1868 G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 37 ‘What wad the grew be efter, but maukin?’ returned Miss Letty. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Grew, a greyhound. |
b. Comb., as grew-bitch, grew-whelp.
| 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 38 Grew-quhelpis. 1814 Pegge Suppl. to Grose, Grew-bitch, a greyhound bitch. York. |
▪ II. grew, v. Sc.
(gr(j)uː)
[f. grew n.2]
intr. To go coursing with greyhounds.
| 1825 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 62 Thine too skatin, and curlin, and grewin. |
▪ III. grew
pa. tense of grow v.; var. grue n. and v.