n. Animal fat in a soft state; oily or unctuous animal matter of any kind, as tallow, suet, or lard; particularly, the fatty matter of land-animals, as distinguished from the oily matter of marine animals.n. In hunting, the fat of a hart, boar, wolf, fox, badger, hare, rabbit, etc., with reference to the season (called grease-time) when they are fat and fit for killing, and are said to be in grease or (formerly) of grease.n. In farriery, a swelling and inflammation in a horse's legs attended with the secretion of oily matter and cracks in the skin.n. To suffer by one's own presumption or folly; endure without mitigation or relief the evil consequences of one's own acts.To smear or anoint with grease or fat.To bribe; corrupt with payments or gifts. [Obsolete or rare.]To gull; cheat.To cause to run easily, as if in a greased channel.In farriery, to affect with the disease called grease.Did you not grease the sealers of Leadenhall throughly in the fiste, they would never be sealed, but turned away. Greene, Quip for an Upstart Courtier (Harl. Misc., V. 411).