Definition of Griesy

1. grisy [adj] - See also: grisy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Griesy

griefed
griefer
griefers
griefful
grieffully
griefing
griefless
grieflessly
grieflessness
grieflike
griefs
griefwork
griege
griesie
griesly
griesy (current term)
grievable
grievance
grievancer
grievancers
grievances
grievand
grievands
grievant
grievants
grievaunce
grievaunces
grieve
grieved
griever

Literary usage of Griesy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1920)
"... wave of that griesy lake : Soone shee that Island far behind her lefte, And now is come to that same place where first she ..."

2. Positions by Richard Mulcaster, Robert Hebert Quick (1888)
"... all blacke before blacke, when health is in despaire, do they not crie and tell vs, what a goodly thing health is, themselues being so griesy ? ..."

3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1912)
"... wave of that griesy lake : Soone shee that Island far behind her lefte, And now is come to that ..."

4. Standard English Poems: Spenser to Tennyson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1899)
"... wave of that great griesy lake: Soone shee that Island far behind her lefte, 170 And now is come to that same place where first she ..."

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