grate
“to rub hard,—to offend, as by oppression or
importunity”
(Johnson's Dict.
), to disturb, to vex:
“What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you,”
2 HENRY IV., iv. 1. 90
;
“I have grated upon my good friends,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 2.
5
;
“Grates me”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, i. 1.
18
(
“offends me, is grating to me,”
KNIGHT)
;
“Grating so harshly all his days of quiet,”
HAMLET, iii. 1. 3.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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