Found 2 items, similar to grey.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: grey
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]
grey
v 1: make gray;
“The painter decided to grey the sky” [syn:
gray]
2: turn gray;
“Her hair began to gray” [syn:
gray]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: grey
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 (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
Gray 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
(
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 (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.), an African parrot (
Psittacus erithacus
), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its
aptness in learning to talk. Also called
jako.
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 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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