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The California gray whale.

An old man. Shak.

The trumpet fly. Milton.

See Greyhound.

Somewhat gray.

The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose.

s, and is valued as a game fish. And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling. Tennyson.

The quality of being gray.

A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.

A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.

Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.

nsidered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions.

In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded. Temples proud to meet their gods halfway. Young.

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit. Rowe. To dance the hay, to dance in a ring. Shak.

A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle.

The European spotted flycatcher.

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

A conical pile or hear of hay in the field. The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton.

A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper.