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What's The Definition Of 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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Gray: 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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Gray: achromatic | achromic | acier | advanced | advanced in life | advanced in years | aged | along in years | ancient | anemic | ashen | ashy | bay | bayard | black | bleak | bled white | bloodless | boring | buckskin | cadaverous | calico pony | canescence | canescent | chestnut | chloranemic | cinereous | cinerous | colorless | dapple | dappled | dappled-gray | dapple-gray | dark | dead | deadly pale | deathly pale | dim | dimmed | dingy | discolored | dismal | dove-colored | dove-gray | drab | drabness | drear | drearisome | dreary | dull | dullness | dun | dusty | elderly | etiolated | exsanguinated | exsanguine | exsanguineous | faded | faint | fallow | flat | funebrial | funereal | ghastly | glaucescence | glaucescent | glaucous | glaucousness | gloomy | grave | gray with age | gray-black | gray-brown | gray-colored | gray-drab | grayed | gray-green | gray-haired | gray-headed | grayish | grayishness | grayness | gray-spotted | gray-toned | gray-white | grim | griseous | grizzle | grizzled | grizzly | grown old | haggard | hoar | hoary | hueless | humdrum | hypochromic | iron-gray | lackluster | leaden | leadenness | lead-gray | livid | lividity | lividness | lurid | lusterless | mat | mealy | monotonous | mouse-colored | mouse-gray | mousiness | mousy | muddy | neutral | neutral tint | old | old as Methuselah | paint | painted pony | pale | pale as death | pale-faced | pallid | pasty | patriarchal | pearl | pearl-gray | pearly | piebald | pinto | Quaker-colored | repetitive | roan | sad | sallow | same | samely | saturnine | senectuous | sickly | silver | silvered | silver-gray | silveriness | silvery | skewbald | slate-colored | slatiness | slaty | smoke-gray | smokiness | smoky | sober | soberness | solemn | somber | somberness | sombrous | sorrel | steel-gray | steely | stone-colored | tallow-faced | taupe | tedious | toneless | triste | uncolored | unrelieved | venerable | wan | washed-out | waxen | weak | weariful | wearisome | weary | whey-faced | white | white with age | white-bearded | white-crowned | white-haired | wrinkled | wrinkly | years old 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 Gray In Webster's Dictionary \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. |
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