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71 words match “GRIS”

GRIS a. 3 definitions

Gray. [R.] Chaucer.

GRISAILLE n. 2 definitions

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

Ambergris. [Obs.] Milton.

GRISE n. 2 definitions

A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree. [Obs.] Every grise of fortune Is smoothed by that below. Shak.

Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly. Maunder.

A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne.

The spine of a hog. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney.

Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson (More's Utopia). Grisly bear. (Zoöl.) See under Grizzly.

A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. (b) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

GRISONS n. 2 definitions

Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. (b) sing.

GRIST n. 3 definitions

e time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q.

Cartilage. See Cartilage. Bacon.

Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.

A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

AGRISE v. 3 definitions

To terrify; to affright. [Obs.] His manly face that did his foes agrise. Spenser.

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often varieg…

A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys.

MISTIGRIS; MISTIGRI n.

A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.