Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Grime

Grime , noun

[Compare Danish grim, griim, lampblack, soot, grime, Icelandic grīma mask, sort of hood, OD. grijmsel, grimsel, soot, smut, and English grimace.]

Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

Grime , transitive verb

To sully or soil deeply; to dirt. — Shakespeare