noun.
Unbleached cotton fabric; a piece of cotton or worsted cloth, in the natural color of the raw material, as it comes from the loom, before it is dyed or finished.
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Same as methylene gray.
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A water-color consisting of carbon-black, lake, and indigo.
Of a color between white and black, having little or no positive color, and only moderate luminosity; of the color of black hair which has begun to turn white, as seen at some distance.
Having gray hairs; gray-headed.
Old; mature: as, gray experience.
noun.
A gray color or tint; a color having little or no distinctive hue (chroma) and only moderate luminosity.
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An animal of a gray color.
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A gray horse.
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The gray duck, or gadwall.
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The California gray whale; the grayback.
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A kind of salmon, Salmo ferox.
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Twilight: as, the gray of the morning, or of the evening.
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plural A Scottish regiment of cavalry forming the second regiment of dragoons in the British army: so called from the color of their horses. Also Scots Grays.
To cause to become gray; change to a gray color.
To depolish, as glass.
In photography, to give a mezzotint effect by covering the negative during the printing with a glass slightly ground or depolished on one side. Pictures thus treated are sometimes called Berlin portraits.