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Grisy vs Grise - What's the difference?

grisy | grise |

As an adjective grisy

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

As a verb grise is

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As a noun grise is

a greyish shade given to a work of art.

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.

    • grise

    English

    Etymology 1

    Properly the plural of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Every grise of fortune / Is smoothed by that below.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (a pig)
    • (Webster 1913) ----