gray

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English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905 1965)

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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.

Noun
horse of a light grey or whitish color

Noun
gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"

Noun
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

Noun
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"

Noun
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin''s theories of evolution (1810-1888)

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Noun
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

Noun
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)

Verb
turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"

Verb
make gray; "The painter decided to grey the sky"

Adjective S.
an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"

Adjective S.
darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"

Adjective S.
intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

Adjective S.
used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"

Adjective S.
showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"


superl.
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.

superl.
Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

superl.
Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.

n.
A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.

n.
An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.


Gray

Gray , a. [Compar. Grayer ; superl. Grayest.] [OE. gray, grey, AS. gr?g, gr?g; akin to D. graauw OHG. gr?o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Dw. gr?, Icel. grdr.] [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.
2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary. 3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames. Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite. -- Gray buck (Zo'94l.), the chickara. -- Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite. -- Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite. -- Gray duck (Zo'94l.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard. -- Gray falcon (Zo'94l.) the peregrine falcon. -- Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar. -- Gray hen (Zo'94l.), 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'94l.) 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'94l.), the European tawny or brown owl (Syrnium aluco). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits arctic America. -- Gray parrot (Zo'94l.), a parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. -- Gray pike. (Zo'94l.) See Sauger. -- Gray snapper (Zo'94l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See Snapper. -- Gray snipe (Zo'94l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage. -- Gray whale (Zo'94l.), a rather large and swift California whale (Rhachianectes glaucus), formerly taken in large numbers in the bays; -- called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead.

Gray

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.

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.

A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.

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Usage Examples

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Misspelled Form

gray, fgray, tgray, ygray, hgray, bgray, vgray, fray, tray, yray, hray, bray, vray, gfray, gtray, gyray, ghray, gbray, gvray, geray, g4ray, g5ray, gtray, gfray, geay, g4ay, g5ay, gtay, gfay, greay, gr4ay, gr5ay, grtay, grfay, grqay, grway, grsay, grzay, grqy, grwy, grsy, grzy, graqy, grawy, grasy, grazy, graty, gra6y, gra7y, grauy, grahy, grat, gra6, gra7, grau, grah, grayt, gray6, gray7, grayu, grayh.

Other Usage Examples

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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