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Grist vs Grisy - What's the difference?

grist | grisy |

As a proper noun grist

is .

As an adjective grisy is

(obsolete) grim, grisly or grisy can be (obsolete) grey; grizzled.

grist

English

Noun

(-)
  • Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • (obsolete) A group of bees.
  • (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
    • (Knight)

    Derived terms

    * grist mill / gristmill * it's all grist to the mill

    Anagrams

    * * English collective nouns ----

    grisy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Grim, grisly.
  • * , II.xi:
    • And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent, / Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the Tast , / Was as the rest, a grysie rablement [...].

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Grey; grizzled.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:So earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade / Was all disperst out of the firmament, / They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their journey went.