griskin (griskin)

[ Who in all forms of pork, Leg, blade bone, baldrib, griskin , chine or chop, Profe myself a genuine Philopig. Southey, To A. Cunning ham, grisledt, a. An obsolete spelling of grizzled. grisline (griz'li-nes), n. [ There as they schuln have.. scharp hunger and thurst, and gris lines of develes. Chaucer , Parson's Tale. applied to an a ), Thy heued hatz nauther greme ne gruste , On arme other fynger, thaz thou ber byзе. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 465. 2. That which is ground; corn to be ground; grain carried to the mill to be ground separately for its owner. Oon wolde riflee us at hame, And gadere the flour out of oure gryst . Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 44. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tu er, Five Hundred Points. 3. The amount ground at one time; the grain carried to the mill for grinding at one time. Hence-4. Material for an occasion; a supply or provision. Matter, as wise logicians say, Cannot without a form subsist; And form, say I as well as they, Must fail, if matter bring no grist . Swift , Progre of Beauty. 5. Material for one brewing. See the extract. The quantity of malt and raw fruit used for one brew ing, expre ed by weight or by measure and weight, is called the grist . Thausing , Beer (trans.), p. 410. 6. A given size of rope or yarn, as determined by the amount of material. The common grist of rope is a circumference of 3 inches, with 20 yarns in each of the 3 strands. The grist or quality of all fine yarns is estimated by the number of leas in a pound. Encyc. Brit ., XIV. 666. The hemp is not stripped of the tow, or cropped, unle it is designed to spin beneath the usual grist , which is about 20 yarns for the strand of a 3-inch strap-laid rope. Ure, Dict., III. 716. To bring grist to the mill, to be a source of profit; bring profitable busine into one's hands. -lic , or * grislic , not found except as in an grislic , on - gristic , an- grystic , on - grysentic , horrible, terrible, adv. angry sen lice , horribly (each form once), = OD. grijselick iselick = OFries. grislik gryslik = MHG. grisenlich , horrible; connected with grisel , v., q. v.] Such as to inspire fear; frightful; terrible; gruesome; grim: as, a gris ly countenance; a grisly specter. Ac he hath sent you to socoure so gri iliche an host, That ther nis man vpon mold that may zou with-stond. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), l. 4935. Whose grisly looks, and eyes like brands, Strike terrour where they come. Robin Hood and the Stranger (Child's Ballads, V. 412). Who enters at such grisly door, Shall ne'er, I ween, find exit more. Scott , Marmion, ii. 23. To the executioner she expre ed a hope that his sword was sufficiently sharp, "as he was likely to find her old neck very tough. With this grisly parody upon the pathetic dying words of Anne Boleyn, the courageous old gentlewoman submitted to her fate. Motley, Dutch Republic, II. 225. Grisly bear. See grizzly . =Syn. Grim, Hideous , etc. (see ghastly ); horrid, appalling, dreadful. grisly1t, adv . [ ME.grisly , gri ely ; from the adj.] Frightfully; terribly. Nayled thou was thurgh hande and feete, And all was for oure synne. Full gri ely muste we caitiff is grete, Of bale howe schulde I blynne? cause it brings grist to the mill. Ayliffe , Parergon. [ gristel , grystyl , gerstel ), gristle (gris'l), n. gristle (=OFries. gristel, gristl, grestel, gers cartilage; dim. in form, The women generally weare in one of the gristles of their noses a ring like a wedding ring. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 269. Hence-2. Something young and unformed. You have years, and strength to do it! but were you, As I, a tender gristle , apt to bow, You would, like me, with cloaks envelopèd, Walk thus, then stamp, then stare. Fletcher ( and another ), Queen of Corinth, v. 3. They were but gristles , and not one amongst a hundred come to any full growth or perfection. Middle ton, Mad World, ii. 7. grisly2t, a. An obsolete spelling of grizzly. ing gristly or cartilaginous. The quality of be grit