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▪ I. ˈgrising pseudo-arch. [An accommodation of med.L. grisengus, used adjectively as the name of a fabric; prob. f. gris grey; cf. OF. grisan, explained by Godef. as a stuff of Greek orgin.] The name of some fabric.
[c1112Laws æthelred iv. ii. §8 (Liebermann) Duos grisengos pannos. 1148–56Charter Vaudey Abb., Lincolnsh. in Dugdale Monast. (1825) V. 490/1 Vestimenta autem dabunt mihi de griseng, vel halberget, et pellibus agninis; uxori autem meæ ad carius bluet, et pellibus similiter agninis. a1200MS. Ashmole 1285 fol. 231 Quidem griengis hoc est panniculis aerium colorem imitantibus vestiuntur.] 1865Kingsley Herew. II. i. 10 Clothing..of grising or halbergit and lambs' skins. ▪ II. † grising, vbl. n. Obs. [f. grise v. + -ing1.] Terror, horror, dread; loathing.
a1225Ancr. R. 190 Nere þet þing sulf grislich hwas scheadewe ȝe ne muhte nout for grislich [MS. C. grisung] biholden? 1382Wyclif 1 Chron. xvii. 21 By his gretnesse & grysynges [1388 dredis] he caste out nacyouns fro his face. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) i. xlii, Also thou shalt fele a lothyng & a grysyng of thy self. |