Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Grisly

Grisly , adjective

[OE, grisly, grislich, Anglo-Saxon grislic, gryslic, from gr{not transcribed}san to shudder; compare OD. grijselick horrible, Old High German grisenl?ch, and also Anglo-Saxon gre?san to frighten, and English gruesome.]

Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.
Grisly to behold. — Chaucer
A man of grisly and stern gravity. — Robynson (More's Utopia)
Collocations (1)
Grisly bear (Zoology) , See under Grizzly.