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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Greek \Greek\, a. [AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf. Grecian.] Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. [1913 Webster] 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. --Ure. Greek rose, the flower campion. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Greek \Greek\, n. 1. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece. [1913 Webster] 2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek. --Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster] 3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "Greek": 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
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Greek Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed between "Greek" and "Grecian" (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as opposed to a Jew (Rom. 2:9, 10). The latter, meaning properly "one who speaks Greek," is a foreign Jew opposed to a home Jew who dwelt in Palestine. The word "Grecians" in Acts 11:20 should be "Greeks," denoting the heathen Greeks of that city, as rendered in the Revised Version according to the reading of the best manuscripts ("Hellenes").