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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} (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 {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} (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 domesticated, 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 \Gray\ (gr[=a]), 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 \Gray\ (gr[=a]), 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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