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Pronunciation : Gray
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [OE. gray, grey, AS. grg, grg; akin to D. graauw OHG. gro, G. grau, Dan. graa, Dw. gr, Icel. grdr.] [Written also grey.]
Definition : 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?l.), the chickara. -- Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite. -- Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite. -- Gray duck (Zo?l.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard. -- Gray falcon (Zo?l.) the peregrine falcon. -- Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar. -- Gray hen (Zo?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?l.) any one of the numerous species of the genus Mugil, or family Mugilid?, 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?l.), the European tawny or brown owl (Syrnium aluco). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits arctic America. -- Gray parrot (Zo?l.), a parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. -- Gray pike. (Zo?l.) See Sauger. -- Gray snapper (Zo?l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See Snapper. -- Gray snipe (Zo?l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage. -- Gray whale (Zo?l.), a rather large and swift California whale (Rhachianectes glaucus), formerly taken in large numbers in the bays; -- called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead.

[Compar. Grayer (; superl. Grayest.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Gray
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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. Sir W. Scott.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913