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n. [ Cf. grizzle darkish gray, or G. griselig gravelly, granular, speckled. ] A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency. [ Written also crizzeling and crizzle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drizzled p. pr. & vb. n. Drizzling ] [ Prop. freq. of AS. dreósan to fall. See Dreary. ] To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain. “Drizzling tears.” Spenser.
Syn. -- mizzle, misle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shed slowly in minute drops or particles. “The air doth drizzle dew.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fine rain or mist. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. raining lightly in a fine mist.
Syn. -- drizzly, misting, misty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable. “Winter's drizzly reign.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Partly imitative, but cf. Fry. ] To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. & n. See Friz, v. t. & n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Frizzled p. pr. & vb. n. Frizzling ] [ Dim. of friz. ] To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Frizzled p. pr. & vb. n. Frizzling ] [ Freq. of an imitative word frizz, in dial. use. ] 1. To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig. Hawthorne. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.

Drain and heat it [ shaved smoked beef ] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it. Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A curl; a lock of hair crisped. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who frizzles.

{ } a. Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gris: cf. grisaille hair partly gray, fr. gris gray. See Gris, and cf. Grisaille. ] Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To make or become grizzly, or grayish. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children. R. F. Burton. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a
grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. & t. [ Etym. uncertain. ] To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble. [ Prov. Eng. ] “Don't sit grizzling there.” Charles Reade. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grizzled hair flowing in elf locks. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat gray; grizzled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old squirrels that turn grizzly. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Grizzlies 1. (Zool.) A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. [ Local, U. S. ] Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] To dry in the sun; as, rizzared haddock. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]