Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gree \Gree\, n.; pl. {Grees} (gr[=e]z); obs. plurals {Greece}
   (gr[=e]s) {Grice} (gr[imac]s or gr[=e]s), {Grise}, {Grize}
   (gr[imac]z or gr[=e]z), etc. [OF. gr['e], F. grade. See
   {Grade.}]
   A step.

Grise \Grise\ (gr[imac]s), n.
   See {Grice}, a pig. [Prov. Eng.]

Grise \Grise\ (gr[imac]s or gr[=e]s), n. [Prop. pl. of gree a
   step.]
   A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree. [Obs.]

         Every grise of fortune Is smoothed by that below.
                                                  --Shak.