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Grizzle \Griz"zle\, n. [F. gris: cf. grisaille hair partly gray,
fr. gris gray. See {Gris}, and cf. {Grisaille}.]
Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]


Grizzle \Griz"zle\, v. t. & i.
To make or become grizzly, or grayish.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Hardship of the way such as would grizzle little
children. --R. F.
Burton.
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I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with
a
grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey. --Pall
Mall Mag.
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Grizzle \Griz"zle\, v. i. & t. [Etym. uncertain.]
To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble. [Prov. Eng.] "Don't
sit grizzling there." --Charles Reade.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]