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... n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.(n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.(v.t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.

... Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.(v.i.) To clutch, hold or pinch a thing, especially money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.(n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and ...

... ; as, he crossed himself.(n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.(v.i.) To move or pass from one side to the other or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.(v.t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.(n.) The crosslike ...