Word Meanings - GRAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
AS. grg, grg; akin to D. graauw OHG. gro, G. grau, Dan. graa, Dw. gr, 1. 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. These gray
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AS. grg, grg; akin to D. graauw OHG. gro, G. grau, Dan. graa, Dw. gr, 1. 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. These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. Sir I. Newton. 2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary. 3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames. Gray antimony , stibnite. -- Gray buck , the chickara. -- Gray cobalt , smaltite. -- Gray copper , tetrahedrite. -- Gray duck , the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard. -- Gray falcon the peregrine falcon. -- Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar. -- Gray hen , the female of the blackcock or black grouse. See Heath grouse. -- Gray mill or millet , a name of several plants of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell. -- Gray mullet any one of the numerous species of the genus Mugil, or family Mugilidæ, found both in the Old World and America; as the European species , the American striped mullet , and the white or silver mullet (M. Braziliensis). See Mullet. -- Gray owl , the European tawny or brown owl (Syrnium aluco). The great gray owl inhabits arctic America. -- Gray parrot , a parrot , very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. -- Gray pike. See Sauger. -- Gray snapper , a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See Snapper. -- Gray snipe , the dowitcher in winter plumage. -- Gray whale , a rather large and swift California whale , formerly taken in large numbers in the bays; -- called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead.
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- WHITECAP
The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening. - WHITE-FRONTED
Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. - WHITE FLY
Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. - WHITESTER
A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - WHITESIDE
The golden-eye. - WHITE-EAR
The wheatear. - WHITEBLOW
See WHITLOW - WHITEWING
The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck. - WHITEWALL
The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts. - WHITE MUSTARD
A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage. - WHITE-WATER
A dangerous disease of sheep. - WHITETHROAT
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat . - WHITEBILL
The American coot. - WHITE-EYE
Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and - WHITES
Leucorrh 2. The finest flour made from white wheat. 3. Cloth or garments of a plain white color. - WHITENESS
A flock of swans. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. Chaucer. 2. Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek." - WHITENING
1. The act or process of making or becoming white. 2. That which is used to render white; whiting. Whitening stone, a sharpening and polishing stone used by cutlers; also, a finishing grindstone of fine texture. - WHITEBEAM
The common beam tree of England ; -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves. - WHITEBOY
1. A favorite. See White, a., 6. "One of God's whiteboys." Bunyan. 2. One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the - HEPPELWHITE
Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co. - SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath.