noun rank; degree; position.
2. gree ·noun a step.
3. gree ·vi to agree.
4. gree ·noun the prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, ·i.e., to carry off the prize.
5. gree ·noun good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction;
used ·esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably.