Careful Words

grizzled (adj.)

  Ham.  His beard was grizzled,—no?

  Hor.  It was, as I have seen it in his life,

A sable silver'd.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

His hair just grizzled,

As in a green old age.

John Dryden (1631-1701): oedipus. Act iii. Sc. 1.