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Gray (grā), a. [Compar. Grayer (); superl. Grayest.] [OE. gray, grey, AS. grǣg, grēg; akin to D. graauw, OHG. grāo, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. grå, Icel. grār.] [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 Mugilidæ, found both in the Old World and America; as the European species (Mugilidæ capito, and Mugilidæ auratus), the American striped mullet (Mugilidæ albula), and the white or silver mullet (Mugilidæ 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 domesticat
ed, 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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Gray (grā), n.
1. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
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2. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
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Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day.
That coats thy life, my gallant gray. Sir W. Scott.
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3. (U. S. History) the Confederate army or a soldier in the confederate army; as, “a battle between the blue and the gray”.
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Gray (grā), n. [named after Louis Harold Gray, English radiobiologist.] the SI unit of absorbed dosage of ionizing radiation, equal to an absorbed energy of 1 joule per kilogram of irradiated material; -- abbreviated Gy. This unit is 100 times the commonly used unit, the rad.
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