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▪ I. † grisy, a.1 Obs.
Also 6 grizy, grysie, griesy, -ie, gryesy, 8 greecy.
[f. grise v. + -y1. In quot. 1590 the reading grizy may be a misprint.]
Horrible; grim; grisly. Hence † ˈgrisyness.
1382Wyclif Gen. xv. 12 Whanne the sunne was goon down, feer felle vpon Abram, and greet grisynes [1388 hidousenesse, Vulg. horror] and derk assaileden hym. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 18 The slouthfull wave of that great griesy [ed. 1609 griesly] lake. Ibid. ii. xi. 12 That fourth band..Was, as the rest, a grysie rablement. Ibid. iii. xii. 19 A most faire dame, Led of two grysie villeins, th' one Despight, The other cleped Cruelty. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 140 (Fo. 1 1623) This grizy [Qos. 1600 grizly] beast (which Lyon hight by name). a1800Johnie Scot in Child Ballads (1886) II. 390 Out they brought the Itilian, And a greecy ghost was he.
▪ II. † ˈgrisy, a.2 Obs.
Forms: 6 griesie, gryesy, 7 grizie, grizy.
[app. f. gris a. + -y1.]
Grey, grizzled.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 25 His griesie [ed. 1611 griesly] lockes, long growen and unbound. Ibid. iii. i. 67 Earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade Was all disperst out of the firmament. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks 874 His beard grizie [1638 grizy], though not for age. |