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Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent). Gray.

merry. Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. Pope. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. Gray.

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray.

A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.

A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elæolite.

Becoming smooth or glabrous from age. Gray.

coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. -- Glance copper, c -- Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. McElrath.

The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. Gray.

A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.

Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue. Lindley.

Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles. Gray.

A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine.

of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt. Gray.

veral western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridæ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings. Strong gramashes, or leggings of thick gray cloth. Sir W. Scott.

ca, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.

lline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.

Graywacke.

e angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. Sir W. Scott.

See Gray (the correct orthography).