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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Gray

Grā'y, a.

adjective

a. [compar. GRAYER; superl. GRAYEST.] [A-S. grāg, grēg, grīg, O. H. Ger. grāo, crāo, M. H. Ger. grā, grāw, N. H. Ger. grau, D. graauw, Dan. graa, Sw. grā, Icel. grár, allied to Gr. γηραιός, aged, gray.]

Sense 1. Of the color of hair whitened by age; hoary; hence, also, white mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes; 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. Newton.

Sense 2. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.

Grāy, n.

noun

n. 1. A gray color; any mixture of white and black.

Sense 2. An animal of gray color, as a horse, a badger, and a kind of salmon.

Woe worth the day That cost thy life, my gallant gray. W. Scott.