Greek

a.	1.	Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends See under Greek calends in the vocabulary. Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.) the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church. Greek cross See Illust. (10) Of Cross. Greek Empire See Byzantine Empire. Greek fire a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. Greek rose the flower campion. - Ure.
n.	1.	A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.
	2.	A swindler; a knave; a cheat. Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek. - Sat. Rev.
	3.	Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me.

Noun	1.	Greek - the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages Synonyms: Hellenic, Hellenic language
	2.	Greek - a native or inhabitant of Greece Synonyms: Hellene
Adj.	1.	Greek - of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks; "Greek mythology"; "a grecian robe" Synonyms: Grecian, Hellenic

1.	(text, graphics)	greek - To display text as abstract dots and lines in order to give a preview of layout without actually being legible. This is faster than drawing the characters correctly which may require scaling or other transformations. Greeking is particularly useful when displaying a reduced image of a document where the text would be too small to be legible on the display anyway.
2.		greek - lorem ipsum.

Aesopian language, Babel, affiliate, argot, associate, babble, belonger, brother, cant, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, charter member, cipher, clubber, clubman, clubwoman, code, committeeman, comrade, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, cryptogram, double Dutch, drivel, dues-paying member, enlistee, enrollee, fellow, fraternity man, garble, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, guildsman, honorary member, initiate, insider, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, joiner, jumble, life member, member, noise, nonsense, one of us, pledge, scramble, secret language, sister, skimble-skamble, slang, socius, sorority girl, sorority woman

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