Grizzled

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  • adjective. Partly gray or streaked with gray.
  • adjective. Having fur or hair streaked or tipped with gray.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Gray; of a mixed color.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of grizzle.
  • adjective. Greyed, old
  • adjective. Grey or partly grey ^1
  • adjective. Streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous ^2
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having dark hairs mixed with grey or white
  • Word Usage
    "But Rove's rise to a big White House office and now his role guiding $50 million in corporate-directed dollars through an ad hoc group called America's Crossroads has made him a scion of a conservative elite, an expert on the playbook of politics who met his match in a "grizzled" -- Rove's own word -- leather-jacket wearing Vietnam vet named Russ Murphy, leader of the Glenn Beck-inspired Delaware 9-12 Patriots."
    Equivalent
    brunet  brunette  
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    verb-stem
    grizzle