Grey

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), 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. any color of neutral hue between white and black; 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.
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              These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
              mixing whites and blacks.             --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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     2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
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     3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. -- Ames.
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     4. gloomy; dismal.
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     {Gray antimony} (Min.), stibnite.
  
     {Gray buck} (Zool.), the chickara.
  
     {Gray cobalt} (Min.), smaltite.
  
     {Gray copper} (Min.), tetrahedrite.
  
     {Gray duck} (Zool.), the gadwall; also applied to the female
        mallard.
  
     {Gray falcon} (Zool.) the peregrine falcon.
  
     {Gray Friar}. See {Franciscan}, and {Friar}.
  
     {Gray hen} (Zool.), the female of the blackcock or black
        grouse. See {Heath grouse}.
  
     {Gray mill} or {Gray millet} (Bot.), a name of several plants
        of the genus {Lithospermum}; gromwell.
  
     {Gray mullet} (Zool.) 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
        ({Mugilid[ae] capito}, and {Mugilid[ae] auratus}), the
        American striped mullet ({Mugilid[ae] albula}), and the
        white or silver mullet ({Mugilid[ae] Braziliensis}). See
        {Mullet}.
  
     {Gray owl} (Zool.), the European tawny or brown owl ({Syrnium
        aluco}). The great gray owl ({Ulula cinerea}) inhabits
        arctic America.
  
     {Gray parrot} (Zool.), an African parrot ({Psittacus
        erithacus}), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its
        aptness in learning to talk. Also called {jako}.
  
     {Gray pike}. (Zool.) See {Sauger}.
  
     {Gray snapper} (Zool.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See
        {Snapper}.
  
     {Gray snipe} (Zool.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
  
     {Gray whale} (Zool.), a rather large and swift whale of the
        northern Pacific ({Eschrichtius robustus}, formerly
        {Rhachianectes glaucus}), having short jaws and no dorsal
        fin. It grows to a length of 50 feet (someimes 60 feet).
        It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of
        California, and is now rare; -- called also {grayback},
        {devilfish}, and {hardhead}. It lives up to 50 or 60 years
        and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grey \Grey\, a.
     See {Gray} (the correct orthography).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}, {grizzly}, {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: United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
            [syn: {Zane Grey}]
       2: Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly
          replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason
          (1537-1554) [syn: {Lady Jane Grey}]
       3: Englishman who as Prime minister implemented social reforms
          including the abolition of slavery throughout the British
          Empire (1764-1845) [syn: {Charles Grey}, {Second Earl Grey}]
       4: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray;
          "the Confederate army was a vast gray" [syn: {gray}]
       5: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
          [syn: {gray}, {grayness}, {greyness}]
       6: gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray" [syn: {gray}]
       v 1: make gray; "The painter decided to grey the sky" [syn: {gray}]
       2: turn gray; "Her hair began to gray" [syn: {gray}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  203 Moby Thesaurus words for "grey":
     Quaker-colored, 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, cheerless, chestnut, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous,
     cloudy, colorless, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray,
     dark, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, depressing, dim, dimmed,
     dingy, discolored, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, drab, drabness,
     drear, drearisome, dreary, dull, dullness, dun, dusty, elderly,
     etiolated, experienced, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous,
     faded, faint, fallow, flat, foggy, funebrial, funereal, ghastly,
     glaucescence, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucousness, gloomy, glum,
     grave, gray, gray with age, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored,
     gray-drab, gray-green, gray-haired, gray-headed, gray-spotted,
     gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grayishness, grayness,
     grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grown old, haggard,
     hoar, hoary, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, iron-gray, lackluster,
     lead-gray, leaden, leadenness, livid, lividity, lividness, lurid,
     lusterless, mat, mature, mealy, misty, monotonous, mouse-colored,
     mouse-gray, mousiness, mousy, muddy, murky, neutral, neutral tint,
     old, old as Methuselah, overcast, paint, painted pony, pale,
     pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, patriarchal, pearl,
     pearl-gray, pearly, piebald, pinto, repetitive, roan, sad, sallow,
     same, samely, saturnine, senectuous, sickly, silver, silver-gray,
     silvered, silveriness, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slatiness,
     slaty, smoke-gray, smokiness, smoky, sober, soberness, solemn,
     somber, somberness, sombrous, sooty, sorrel, steel-gray, steely,
     stone-colored, sunless, 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, wise,
     wrinkled, wrinkly, years old