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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grizzly" Quotes from Famous Books

... old woman called Grizzly Bear. She had neither husband nor children, and lived all alone in a lodge on ...

— Thirty Indian Legends • Margaret Bemister

... country, and brought us plenty of skins. Ay, lad, you'll repent of your obstinacy when you come to have to hunt your own dinner, as I've done many a day up the Saskatchewan, where I've had to fight with red-skins and grizzly bears and to chase the buffaloes over miles and miles of prairie on rough-going nags till my bones ached and I scarce knew ...

— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne

... mountains to the valleys where there was pasturage and running water. This was a long and difficult task, occupying several days. On the second day, in a spot where we expected to find nothing more human than a grizzly bear or an elk, we found a little hut, built of pine boughs and a few rough boards clumsily hewn out of small trees with an axe. The hut was covered with snow many feet deep, excepting only the hole in the roof which served for a chimney, and a small pit-like place in front to permit egress. The ...

— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

... Edwin P. Whipple, the essayist, and Walt Whitman, who was chosen one year for the commencement poet. He appeared on the platform wearing a flannel shirt, square-cut neck, disclosing a hirsute covering that would have done credit to a grizzly bear; the rest of his attire all right. Joaquin Miller ...

— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn

... talk of death, That Phantom of grizzly bone? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own; It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep; Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

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