grizzly

grizzly
    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}]
    

Grizzly \Griz"zly\, a.
   Somewhat gray; grizzled.
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         Old squirrels that turn grizzly.         --Bacon.
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   {Grizzly bear} (Zool.), 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.
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Grizzly \Griz"zly\, n.; pl. {Grizzlies}.
   1. (Zool.) A grizzly bear. See under {Grizzly}, a.
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   2. pl. In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw
      out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.]
      --Raymond.
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81 Moby Thesaurus words for "grizzly":
      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