Gravy Definitions

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRA'VY, n. The fat and other liquid matter that drips from flesh in roasting, or when roasted or baked, or a mixture of that juice with flour.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
2: the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added [syn: gravy, pan gravy]
3: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural gravies) Etymology: Middle English gravey, from Anglo-French gravé broth, stew Date: 14th century 1. a sauce made from the thickened and seasoned juices of cooked meat 2. a. something additional or unexpected that is pleasing or valuable <with expenses now paid, future money is pure gravy — K. Crossen> b. unearned or illicit gain ; graft V

English Explanatory Dictionary

n. Physics the SI unit of the absorbed dose of ionizing radiation,corresponding to one joule per kilogram. °Abbr.: Gy. [L. H. Gray,Engl. radiobiologist d. 1965]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a the juices exuding from meat during and after cooking. b a dressing or sauce for food, made from these or from other materials, e.g. stock. 2 sl. unearned or unexpected money. Phrases and idioms: gravy-boat a boat-shaped vessel for serving gravy. gravy train sl. a source of easy financial benefit. Etymology: ME, perh. from a misreading as gravé of OF grané, prob. f. grain spice: see GRAIN

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gravy Gra"vy, n.; pl. Gravies. [OE. greavie; prob. fr. greaves, graves, the sediment of melted tallow. See Greaves.] 1. The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up. 2. Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gravies) Gravy is a sauce made from the juices that come from meat when it cooks. N-MASS

Moby Thesaurus

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