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alt, 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.

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.

ams, 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.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshly broken. -- n.

Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.

Of a dark gray, like slate.

Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American Pacific coast, are very destructive to oysters.

Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. Gray.

Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Gray.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.