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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Grey \Grey\, a. See {Gray} (the correct orthography). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gray \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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: grey adj 1: an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray" [syn: {gray}, {grayish}, {greyish}] 2: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: {gray}, {gray-haired}, {grey-haired}, {gray-headed}, {grey-headed}, {hoar}, {hoary}, {white-haired}] 3: used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure" [syn: {gray}] 4: intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal" [syn: {gray}] 5: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: {dull}, {gray}, {leaden}] n 1: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray" [syn: {gray}] 2: a neutral achromatic color midway between while and black [syn: {gray}, {grayness}, {greyness}] 3: gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray" [syn: {gray}] v 1: make gray [syn: {gray}] 2: turn gray; "Her hair began to gray" [syn: {gray}]
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