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[ gru, horror, terror), > ME. (Sc.) grouen, growen, gryen, E. grue: see grue, gruesome. Hence ult. grisly1.] I. in trans. To be in terror; fear; tremble or shudder with fear. Gret tempest began to rise, That gert the shipmen sar grise . Metr. Homilies (ed. Small), p. 134. Thay shalle in thare fleshe ryse That every man shalle whake [quake] and gryse Agans that ilk dome. Towneley Mysteries, p. 41. II. trans. To be in terror of; fear; dread. The olde dweller is of thin holi lond, the whiche thou grised ist, for hateful werkis. Wyclif, Wisdom xii. 4 (Oxf.). grise2 (gris), n. [Also written grice; "Ich haue no peny," quath Peers, "polettes for to bigge [buy], Nother goos nother grys , bote two grene cheses, A fewe croddes and creyme, and a cake of otes." Piers Plowman (C), ix. 305. 2. Specifically, in her., a young wild boar. The distinction between a grise and a boar cannot always be maintained in delineation. Compare eagle and eaglet IMG:content-2690.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2691.png:[blocks in formation] griset, a. and n. [Early mod. E. also grice, gris; His hakeney, that was al pomely grys . Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 6. II. n. A gray fur, of the squirrel or rabbit. I saugh his sleves ypurfiled at the hond With grys , and that the fyneste of a lond. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 194. They ar clothed in veluet and chamlet furred with grice, Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., ccclxi. and we be vestured with pore clothe. "Here is a glove, a glove," he said, "Lined with the silver gris ." Child Noryce (Child's Ballads, II. 41). griseous (gris'e-us), a. [ grise4 .] Pearl-gray; gray verging on blue.