Gray

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·superl Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.

II. Gray ·superl Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

III. Gray ·noun An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.

IV. Gray ·noun A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.

V. Gray ·superl 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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