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The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray. Lindley.

ants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. Campbell.

Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. Gray.

To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver. Catton.

ish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.canary.

The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.

over top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

ed, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

s carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.

A kind of food. See citation, below. Caring or carl are gray steeped in water and fried the next day in butter or fat. They are eaten on the second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl Sunday. Robinson's Whitby Glossary (1875).

To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble. And carol of love's high praise. Spenser. The gray linnets carol from the hill. Beattie.

A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. Gray with a cast of green. Woodward.

See Sentry. [Obs.] Gray.

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).

A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste. [Written also ceylonite.]

e receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle.

A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

By chance; perchance. Gray.

size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.