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v. t. 1. To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To terrify; to affright. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His manly face that did his foes agrise. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ambre gris, i. e., gray amber; F. gris gray, which is of German origin: cf. OS. grîs, G. greis, gray-haired. See Amber. ] 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 variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212° Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ OF. & F., fr. LL. griseus; of German origin; cf. MHG. gris, G. greis, hoary. Cf. Grizzle. ] Gray. [ R. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF., fr. gris gray. Cf. G. grauwerk (lit. gray work) the gray skin of the Siberian squirrel. See Gris, a. ] A costly kind of fur. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ See Grice a pig. ] A little pig. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., from gris gray. ] 1. (Fine Arts) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of French fancy dress goods. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ambergris. ] Ambergris. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Grice, a pig. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prop. pl. of gree a step. ] A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Every grise of fortune
Is smoothed by that below. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. griseus. See Gris. ] Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly. Maunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. grisette a gray woolen cloth, fr. gris gray. Grisettes were so called because they wore gray gowns made of this stuff. See Gars. ] A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Grise a pig + -kin. ] The spine of a hog. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Obs. ] See Grizzled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE, grisly, grislich, AS. grislic, gryslic, fr. gr&unr_;san to shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible, OHG. grisenl?ch, and also AS. gre?san to frighten, and E. gruesome. ] Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. “Grisly to behold.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

Grisly bear. (Zool.) See under Grizzly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. grison gray, gray-haired, gris gray. See Gris. ] (Zool.) (a) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ F. ] (Geog.) (a) Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. (b) sing. The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. grist, fr. grindan. See Grind. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. [ 1913 Webster ]

Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Supply; provision. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

All is grist that comes to his mill, all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [ Colloq. ] --
To bring grist to the maill, to bring profitable business into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [ Colloq. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gristel, gristil, AS. gristl; akin to OFries. gristel, grestel. Perh. a dim. of grist but cf. OHG. krustila, krostela. Cf. Grist. ] (Anat.) Cartilage. See Cartilage. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ L., the Guinea fowl. ] (Zool.) A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common turkey and the wild turkeys. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ ‖‖ }, n. [ F. mistigri. ] A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. The character or manners of an ogre. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a tiger; tigerish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. vert-de-gris, apparently from verd, vert, green + de of + gris gray, but really a corruption of LL. viride aeris (equivalent to L. aerugo), from L. viridis green + aes, aeris, brass. See Verdant, and 2d Ore. ] 1. (Chem.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The green rust formed on copper. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This rust is a carbonate of copper, and should not be confounded with true verdigris. U. S. Disp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue verdigris (Chem.), a verdigris having a blue color, used as a pigment, etc. --
Distilled verdigris (Old Chem.), an acid copper acetate; -- so called because the acetic acid used in making it was obtained from distilled vinegar. --
Verdigris green, clear bluish green, the color of verdigris. [ 1913 Webster ]