Gray

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  • adjective. Of or relating to an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Dull or dark.
  • adjective. Lacking in cheer; gloomy.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Having gray hair; hoary.
  • adjective. Old or venerable.
  • adjective. Intermediate in character or position, as with regard to a subjective matter.
  • noun. An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.
  • noun. An object or animal of the color gray.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A member of the Confederate Army in the Civil War.
  • noun. The Confederate Army.
  • intransitive verb. To make gray.
  • intransitive verb. To become gray.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To become old; age.
  • intransitive verb. To include a large or increasing proportion of older people.
  • noun. The SI unit for the energy absorbed from ionizing radiation, equal to one joule per kilogram.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • noun. Same as methylene gray.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. An animal of a gray color.
  • noun. A gray horse.
  • noun. The gray duck, or gadwall.
  • noun. The California gray whale; the grayback.
  • noun. A kind of salmon, Salmo ferox.
  • noun. Twilight: as, the gray of the morning, or of the evening.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
  • noun. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
  • noun. the Confederate army or a soldier in the confederate army.
  • noun. 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.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
  • adjective. Old; mature.
  • adjective. gloomy; dismal.
  • adjective. stibnite.
  • adjective. the chickara.
  • adjective. smaltite.
  • adjective. tetrahedrite.
  • adjective. the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard.
  • adjective. the peregrine falcon.
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    "The most important and highest part of the brain is its surface, a thin layer of gray nerve-stuff, often spoken of as the _gray matter_ (the"
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