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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.

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

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

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.

A little pig. [Written also grise.] [Scot.]

A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseoviridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.

Same as 2d Grise. [Obs.]

and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.

A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]

e fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. A. Grisebach.

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