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Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored. [Scot.]

, or character. I'll cross it, though it blast me. Shak. Blasted with excess of light. T. Gray.

Gray; bluish gray. [Obs.] Our bloncket liveries been all too sad. Spenser.

A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.

te color, as some roses and other flowers. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. T. Gray.

of louse (Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback. -- Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. -- Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exerc…

A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and wa…

Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence. Gray.

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

e stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Gray.

To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise. Heard ye the din of battle bray Gray.

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. Gray.

A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.

A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.