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Grizzly definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRIZ'ZLY, a. Somewhat gray.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired] n
1: powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America [syn: grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip, silver-tip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos horribilis]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (grizzlier; -est) Date: 1594 grizzled

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. (grizzlier, grizzliest) grey, greyish, grey-haired. --n. (pl. -ies) (in full grizzly bear) a large variety of brown bear, found in N. America and N. Russia.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Grizzly Griz"zly, a. Somewhat gray; grizzled. Old squirrels that turn grizzly. --Bacon. Grizzly bear (Zo["o]l.), a large and ferocious bear (Ursus horribilis) of Western North America and the Rocky Mountains. It is remarkable for the great length of its claws.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Grizzly Griz"zly, n.; pl. Grizzlies. 1. (Zo["o]l.) A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a. 2. pl. In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.] --Raymond.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(grizzlies) 1. A grizzly or a grizzly bear is a large, fierce, greyish-brown bear. ...two grizzly bear cubs. N-COUNT 2. see also grisly

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Grayish, grizzled, somewhat gray, a little gray.

Moby Thesaurus

Quaker-colored, acier, argent, argentine, ashen, ashy, canescent, chalky, cinereous, cinerous, cretaceous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, hoar, hoary, iron-gray, lactescent, lead-gray, leaden, lily-white, livid, marble, marmoreal, milky, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, niveous, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, platinum, pure white, sad, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, snow-white, snowy, sober, somber, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, swan-white, taupe, white, white as snow