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From Middle English gryen (“to shudder, shake, or convulse”). Compare grue.

gry (third-person singular simple present gries, present participle grying, simple past and past participle gried)

  1. (dialectal) To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).

gry (plural gries)

  1. A fit of ague.

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gry (plural gries)

  1. (archaic) A small amount.
  2. (archaic) One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke

Abbreviation of gray.

gry (plural grys)

  1. Abbreviation of gray or grey (the color)

gry (not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of grey or gray (the color)

From Ancient Greek γρῦ (grû).

grȳ n (indeclinable)

  1. the least amount; scrap, crumb
  2. dirt under the fingernails
  • “gry”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gry in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

gry (imperative gry, present tense gryr, passive -, simple past grydde, past participle grydd, present participle gryende)

  1. to dawn, begin to get light (of a day)

gry (present tense gryr, past tense grydde, past participle grytt/grydd, passive infinitive gryast, present participle gryande, imperative gry)

  1. to dawn (a day)
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrɘ/
  • Rhymes: -ɘ
  • Syllabification: gry

gry

  1. inflection of gra:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Related to gryt, gryta, and English grit, all from Proto-Germanic *greutą.

gry n

  1. grit (personal trait; in the expression gott gry), courage, spirit

    Det är gott gry i dig!

    Attaboy!

From Old Norse grýjandi (“in the dawn”), ultimately related to the root of grå.

gry (present gryr, preterite grydde, supine grytt, imperative gry)

  1. to dawn

    innan en ny dag gryr

    before a new day dawns
Conjugation of gry (weak)
active passive
infinitive gry —
supine grytt —
imperative gry —
imper. plural1 gryn —
present past present past
indicative gryr grydde — —
ind. plural1 gry grydde — —
subjunctive2 gry grydde — —
present participle gryende
past participle grydd

From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu.

gry

  1. grey

gry

  1. grey
  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 43
Colors in Yola · [Term?](layout · text)
     whit, baun      gry      bhlock, blaak
             reed              yulloureed              yullou, ghou, buee
             *leem green              green              *meente
             blúegreen              *asure              blúe
                          purple              rowse