The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.

(geology) An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand and gravel) resulting from the chemical and mechanical weathering of crystalline rocks.

(astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a crane. It contains the star Alnair and lies south of the constellation Piscis Austrinis.

simple past tense and past participle of grue

present participle of grue

(idiomatic) To stay angry (at someone or something).

(countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle. / (uncountable, slang) Food. / (Australia, slang) A dirty person. / (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.

To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food. / (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.

A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. / The snorting cry of a pig. / Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.

(intransitive, of a person) To make a grunt or grunts. / (intransitive, of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts. / (intransitive, UK, slang) To break wind; to fart.