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English Dictionary: Grizzly by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grizzly
adj
  1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
    Synonym(s): 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
    Synonym(s): grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip, silver-tip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos horribilis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Grizzly \Griz"zly\, n.; pl. {Grizzlies}.
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A grizzly bear. See under {Grizzly}, a.
  
      2. pl. In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw
            out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.]
            --Raymond.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Grizzly \Griz"zly\, a.
      Somewhat gray; grizzled.
  
               Old squirrels that turn grizzly.            --Bacon.
  
      {Grizzly bear} (Zo[94]l.), 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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