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Definitions for: Gray
[n] horse of a light grey or whitish color
[n] gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"
[n] a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
[n] any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"
[n] United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
[n] American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
[n] English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)
[adj] an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"
[adj] darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
[adj] intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
[adj] used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"
[adj] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
[adj] clothed in gray or a gray costume; "Gray Ladies are volunteer workers in the American Red Cross"; "the Gray Friars are Franciscan friars who traditionally wear gray habits"
[v] turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"
[v] make gray
Webster (1913) Definition: Gray, a. [Compar. Grayer; superl. Grayest.] [OE.
gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw, OHG.
gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.]
[Written also grey.]
1. White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt,
or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark
mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I.
Newton.
2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
Gray buck (Zo["o]l.), the chickara.
Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
Gray duck (Zo["o]l.), the gadwall; also applied to the
female mallard.
Gray falcon (Zo["o]l.) the peregrine falcon.
Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
Gray hen (Zo["o]l.), the female of the blackcock or black
grouse. See Heath grouse.
Gray mill or millet (Bot.), a name of several plants of the
genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
Gray mullet (Zo["o]l.) any one of the numerous species of
the genus Mugil, or family Mugilid[ae], found both in
the Old World and America; as the European species ({M.
capito}, and M. auratus), the American striped mullet
(M. albula), and the white or silver mullet ({M.
Braziliensis}). See Mullet.
Gray owl (Zo["o]l.), the European tawny or brown owl
(Syrnium aluco). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea)
inhabits arctic America.
Gray parrot (Zo["o]l.), a parrot (Psittacus erithacus),
very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in
learning to talk.
Gray pike. (Zo["o]l.) See Sauger.
Gray snapper (Zo["o]l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer.
See Snapper.
Gray snipe (Zo["o]l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
Gray whale (Zo["o]l.), a rather large and swift California
whale (Rhachianectes glaucus), formerly taken in large
numbers in the bays; -- called also grayback,
devilfish, and hardhead.
Gray, n.
1. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a
neutral or whitish tint.
2. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or
a kind of salmon.
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats
thy life, my gallant gray. --Sir W.
Scott.
Synonyms: achromatic, Asa Gray, cloudy, dull, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey, grey, grey, grey, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, greyish, greyness, hoar, hoary, intermediate, leaden, old, Robert Gray, southern, Thomas Gray, white-haired
See Also: achromatic color, achromatic colour, apparel, article of clothing, ash gray, ash grey, botanist, charcoal, charcoal gray, charcoal grey, clothes, clothing, color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize, Confederate Army, dappled-gray, dappled-grey, dapple-gray, dapple-grey, Davy's gray, discolor, discolour, iron blue, iron-gray, iron-grey, mount, navigator, organisation, organization, oxford gray, oxford grey, phytologist, plant scientist, poet, riding horse, saddle horse, silver, silver gray, silver grey, steel gray, tattletale gray, tattletale grey, vesture, wear, wearing apparel
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