[syn: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grizzly \Griz"zly\, a.
   Somewhat gray; grizzled.
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         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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grizzly \Griz"zly\, n.; pl. Grizzlies.
   1. (Zool.) A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.
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   2. pl. In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw
      out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.]
      --Raymond.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grizzly
    adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or
           white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
           "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-
           haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed,
           grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
    n 1: powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western
         North America [syn: grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip,
         silver-tip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos
         horribilis]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "grizzly":
   Quaker-colored, acier, argent, argentine, ashen, ashy, canescent,
   chalky, cinereous, cinerous, cretaceous, dapple, dapple-gray,
   dappled, dappled-gray, dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray,
   dreary, dull, dusty, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, glaucescent,
   glaucous, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab,
   gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish,
   griseous, grizzle, grizzled, hoar, hoary, iron-gray, lactescent,
   lead-gray, leaden, lily-white, livid, marble, marmoreal, milky,
   mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, niveous, pearl, pearl-gray,
   pearly, platinum, pure white, sad, silver, silver-gray, silvered,
   silvery, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, snow-white,
   snowy, sober, somber, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored,
   swan-white, taupe, white, white as snow