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The character or manners of an ogre.

Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

To cover, or coat, with verdigris. [R.] "An old verdigrised brass bugle." Hawthorne.

Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.

The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.

A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.

Ambergris. [Obs.] You that smell of amber at my charge. Beau. & Fl.

See Ambergris.

A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

To direct or address. [R.] Sacred vows . . . applied to grisly Pluto. Pope.

rm, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.

A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.

Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.

s have been steeped. -- Cherry sucker (Zoöl.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry chopper cherry snipe. Cherry tree, a tree that bears cherries. -- Ground cherry, Winter cherry, See Alkekengi.

To run together; to meet. [Obs.] Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. J. Hughes.

The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.

stance or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; æruginous.

rown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.

A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.