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noun

Grizzly n. (pl. grizzlies)

(Zool.) A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.

pl. In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. (Local, U. S.)

adjective

Grizzly adj. Somewhat gray; grizzled. "Old squirrels that turn grizzly."

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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Etymology of 'Grizzly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grizzly" Quotes from Famous Books

... mother, will carry around six people, three on each shoulder; besides this, the management offers one hundred dollars to any man, regardless of color, who can throw Orso in a wrestling match. A rumor arose in Anaheim that from the mountains of San Bernardino comes for this purpose the "Grizzly Killer," a hunter who was celebrated for his bravery and strength, and who, since California was settled, was the first man who attacked these great bears single-handed and armed only with a knife. It is the probable victory of the "Grizzly Killer" over the sixteen-year-old athlete of ...

— Sielanka: An Idyll • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... grizzly head, scratched with provoking deliberation the fringe of beard which lined his face like a frame, and stared with a look of supercilious scorn ...

— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... tangled solitude that might have seemed virgin and unbroken but for a few oyster-cans, yeast-powder tins, and empty bottles that had been apparently stranded by the "first low wash" of pioneer waves. On the ragged trunk of an enormous pine hung a few tufts of gray hair caught from a passing grizzly, but in strange juxtaposition at its foot lay an empty bottle of incomparable bitters,—the chef-d'oeuvre of a hygienic civilization, and blazoned with the arms of an all-healing republic. The head of a rattlesnake peered from a case that ...

— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... made his appearance, Captain Barbour. He was a thick-set, grizzly haired man, rather short, not handsome at all; and yet with an air of authority unmistakably clothing him like a garment of power and dignity. Plainly this man's word was law, and the girls stood in awe ...

— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner

... Lover, which is still in print, and for the benefit of the possible reader of it, I will explain that the "Wagon Wheel Gap" of the story is Ouray, and that the Grizzly Bear Trail leads off the stage ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

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