grizelin (grizelin)

Same as gridelin. grizzle (griz'l), n. and a. [Formerly also grizle, grizele; O, thou di embling cub! what wilt thou be, When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case? Shak., T. N., v. 1. 21. A species of wig. Davies . Emerg'd from his grizzle , th' unfortunate prig Seems as if he was hunting all night for his wig. C. Anstey, New Bath Guide, xi. Even our clergy when abroad moult their feather'd grizzles , cast off their pudding-sleeves, and put on white stockings, long swords, and bag-wigs. Colman, The Spleen, ii. IMG:content-2692.png:[blocks in formation] 2629 To grow gray or grizzly; become gray-haired. Emerson. [Rare.] grizzled (griz'ld), a. [ The rams were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled . Gen. xxx i. 10. Old men like me are out of date: Who wants to see a grizzled pate? R. H. Stoddard , Old Man's New-Year's Song. Grizzled sandpiper. See sandpiper. grizzly (griz'li), a. and n. [ grizzle + -y1.] I. a . Somewhat gray; grayish. Old squirrels that turn grizzly . Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 851. And my good gla will tell me how A grizzly beard becomes me then. Bryant, Lapse of Time. Some rough old knight who knew the worldly way, Albeit grizzlier than a bear. Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. Grizzly bear, Ursus horribilis, a very large and ferocious bear peculiar to mountainous parts of western North America. It is so called from its usual coloration, a griz. zled gray, but is very variable in this respect, some individuals being whitish, blackish, brownish, or variegated. It is sometimes regarded as a variety of the common brown bear of Europe, U. arctos, but usually as a distinct species, of which several color-varieties have been recognized by name. See bear2, 1. [The spelling grisly, which refers to the nature of the brute, is later, and refers to grislyl, terrible, as reflected in the specific name.] II. n.; pl. grizzlies (-liz). 1. The grizzly bear, Ursus horribilis. See I. The miner chips the rock and wanders farther, and the grizzly muses undisturbed. R. L. Stevens on , Silver a do Squatters, p. 49. The Indians and most of the white hunters are rather chary of meddling with "Old Ephraim," as the mountain men style the grizzly . T. Roosevelt , Hunting Trips, p. 334. 2. In mining : ( a ) An arrangement in the sluices used in washing auriferous gravel for receiving and throwing out the large stones carried down by the current. [Pacific States.] ( b ) In Australia, a coarse grating of timber for separating large pieces of quartz from the decomposed rock with which they are a ociated, in some of the forms of granitic dikes containing auriferous quartz peculiar to that region.