Gripper
(Grip"per) n.
1. One who, or that which, grips or seizes.
2. pl. In printing presses, the fingers or nippers.
Gripple
(Grip"ple) n. A grasp; a gripe. [Obs.] Spenser.
Gripple
(Grip"ple), a. [Dim. fr. gripe.] Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious. [Obs.] Spenser.
Grippleness
(Grip"ple*ness), n. The quality of being gripple. [Obs.]
Gripsack
(Grip"sack`) n. A traveler's handbag. [Colloq.]
Gris
(||Gris) a. [OF. & F., fr. LL. griseus; of German origin; cf. MHG. gris, G. greis, hoary. Cf. Grizzle.]
Gray. [R.] Chaucer.
Gris
(Gris) 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.
Gris
(Gris) n. sing. & pl. [See Grice a pig.] A little pig. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
Grisaille
(||Gri"saille`) n. [F., from gris gray.]
1. (Fine Arts) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; — used in English especially for painted glass.
2. A kind of French fancy dress goods. Knight.
Grisamber
(Gris"am`ber) n. [See Ambergris.] Ambergris. [Obs.] Milton.
Grise
(Grise) n. See Grice, a pig. [Prov. Eng.]
Grise
(Grise) n. [Prop. pl. of gree a step.] A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree. [Obs.]
Every grise of fortune
Is smoothed by that below.
Shak. Griseous
(Gris"e*ous) a. [LL. griseus. See Gris.] Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or
brown; grizzled or grizzly. Maunder.
Grisette
(||Gri*sette") 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.
Griskin
(Gris"kin) n. [Grise a pig + - kin.] The spine of a hog. [Obs.]
Grisled
(Gri"sled) a. [Obs.] See Grizzled.
Grisliness
(Gris"li*ness) n. The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney.
Grisly
(Gris"ly) a. [OE, grisly, grislich, AS. grislic, gryslic, fr. grsan 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.
A man of grisly and stern gravity.
Robynson Grisly bear. (Zoöl.) See under Grizzly.
