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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

... upon the bosom of the river or the lake, whose waters no paddle wheel or even keel disturbed. Wild turkeys, quails, and pigeons at times, swept the air like clouds. And then there was the intense excitement of occasionally bringing down a deer, and even of shooting a ferocious grizzly bear or wolf or catamount. The romance of the sea creates a Robinson Crusoe. The still greater romance of the forest creates a Kit Carson. It often makes even an old man's blood thrill in his veins, to contemplate the wild and wondrous adventures, which this ...

— Christopher Carson • John S. C. Abbott

... with whom he had shared privation and danger; men who had been his comrades through it all. But as he searched their faces he felt an overpowering loneliness. In the eyes of every one there was horror; To be killed in battle—what was that? But to be shot like a cur in the grizzly morning! Yet their horror, their anger, was against the military law, and was born of a fear that the same thing might come to them. It was that which cut him to the quick. It was not that he was to be shot the next day, but that they might meet a similar fate. That was the fear which drove the ...

— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter

... with bonfires and illuminations, while its streets ran red, with blood no longer, but with wine; and although Madam League, so lately the object of fondest adoration, was now publicly burned in the effigy of a grizzly hag; yet Paris still held for that decrepit beldame, and closed its gates ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... being scalped in Broadway and now he is never satisfied unless he is astraddle of the Rocky Mountains in the first fortnight. I take over lots of cockney-hunters every summer, who just get a shot at a grizzly bear or two, or at an antelope, and come back in time for the ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... turns out fine," he said; "for that would be a jolly hit. I'd rather snap off pictures like that than shoot a grizzly or a bull moose. Me for the ...

— The Outdoor Chums - The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club • Captain Quincy Allen

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