Grizzly
['grɪzlɪ] or ['grɪzli]
Definition
(noun.) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America.
Editor: Sheldon--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Somewhat gray; grizzled.
(n.) A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.
(a.) In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.
Typist: Melba
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Grayish, grizzled, somewhat gray, a little gray.
Editor: Nettie
Examples
- The man's face was thin and very pale; his hair and beard were grizzly; his eyes were bloodshot. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Then he went to Peru as partner of a man who had a grizzly bear which they proposed entering against a bull in the bull-ring in that city. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was a little, white-faced, clean-shaven, grizzly-haired fellow of fifty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The grizzly was killed in five minutes, and so the scheme died. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Nita