gray 
lilitc, or may be even too purple for lilac, while if the gray 
is darker a French gray or slate-gray results, which needs 
the addition of red to give lavender gray, although the 
latter appears bluer than lilac gray. If yellow is mixed 
with gray, the result is a stone gray or drab gray, or in 
larger admixture a full drab. All these remarks refer to 
mixtures of lights, not to mixtures of pigments, the effects 
of which depend upon the special absorption-spectra of 
the pigments, and can only be ascertained by direct ex- 
periment. 
Thou must be stript out of thy stately garments ; 
And as thou earnest to me, 
In homely gray, instead of silk and purest pall, 
Now all thy cloathing must be. 
Patient Grissel (Child's Ballads, IV. 212). 
No tree in all the grove but has its charms, 
Though each its hue peculiar ; paler some, 
And of a wannish yray ; the willow such. 
Camper, Task, i. 309. 
2. An animal of a gray color. Specifically (a) 
A badger. 
The Furres and Fethers which come to Colmogro, as Sa- 
bles, Beauers, Minkes, Armine, Lettis, Grates, Wooluer- 
ings, and White Foxes. llakluyt's Voyages, I. 257. 
Twas not thy sport to chase a silly hare, 
Stagge, buck, foxe, wild-cat, or the limping gray. 
R. Markham, in Cens. Lit., IX. 267. 
(6) A gray horse. 
Her mother trundled to the gate 
Behind the dappled grays. 
Tennyton, Talking Oak. 
(e) The gray duck, or gadwall. (rf) The California gray 
whale; the gray back, (e) A kind of salmon, Salmoferox. 
3. Twilight : as, the gray of the morning, or of 
the evening. 
Sims was arrested by lying and disguised policemen, 
. . . and was carried off in the gray of the morning, after 
the moon set, and before the sun rose. 
W. Phillips, Speeches, p. 60. 
4. pi. leap."] A Scottish regiment of cavalry 
forming the second regiment of dragoons in the 
British army : so called from the color of their 
horses. Also Scots Grays Aniline gray. Same 
as Coupler's blue. See blue. In the gray, m steel-work, 
etc., finished without being brought to a polish. 
Earnshaw was the first watchmaker who had sense 
enough to set at defiance the vulgar and ignorant preju- 
dice for " high finish " of the non-acting surfaces, and to 
leave them "in the gray," as it is called. 
Sir E. Beckett, Clocks and Watches, p. 323. 
Mineral pray, a pale blue-gray pigment used by artists. 
It is obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of the 
genuine ultramarine from lapis lazuli. 
gray, grey (gra), . t. [< gray, grey, a.] 1. To 
cause to become gray ; change to a gray color. 
Canst thou undo a wrinkle ? 
Or change but the complexion of one hair? 
Yet thou hast gray'd a thousand. 
Shirley, Bird in a Cage, v. 1. 
2. To depolish, as glass. 
The glass should, in fact, not be ground at all, but only 
grayed : that is, have its surface removed by rubbing with 
fine emery powder. Lea, Photography, p. 48. 
3. In photog., to give a mezzotint effect by cov- 
ering the negative during the printing with a 
glass slightly ground or depolished on one side. 
Pictures thus treated are sometimes called Ber- 
lin portraits. 
grayback (gra'bak), . 1. The knot or red- 
breasted sandpiper, Tringa canutiis. 2. The 
gray snipe. [Local, U. S.] 3. The common 
body-louse, Pediculus vestimenti. 4. The dab, 
a fish. [Local, Irish.] 5. The Calif ornia gray 
whale, Rhachianectes glaucus. 6. The red-head- 
ed duck or American pochard, Fuligula ameri- 
cana. [Canada.] 7. The black-headed or 
American scaup duck, Fuligula marila neare- 
tiea. G. Trumbull, Bird Names, p. 55. 8. A 
Confederate soldier during the American civil 
war; a graycoat. [Colloq.] 
gray-bear (gra'bar), n. An arachnidan of the 
family Phalangiidte; a harvestman. [U. S.] 
graybeard, greybeard (gra'berd), . and a. 
1. n. 1. A man with a gray beard ; an old man. 
Gre. Youngling ! thou canst not love so dear as I. 
Tra. Graybeard ! thy love doth freeze. 
Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 
2. Same as beUarmine. 
There's plenty o' brandy in the greybeard that Luckie 
Haclearie sent doun. Scott, Waverley, Ixiv. 
3. The common sertularian hydroid polyp 
which infests oyster-beds, Sertularia argentea. 
When it forms patches on the shells, the oysters 
are said to hair up. 
U. a. Having a gray beard ; old. 
Hold oil ! unhand me, gray-beard loon. 
Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, i. 
gray-bird (gra'berd), . A kind of thrush. 
Grose. [Prov. Eug.j 
graycoat (gra'kot), . One who wears a gray 
coat or uniform; specifically, in the United 
States, a soldier of the Confederate army dur- 
ing the civil war. [Colloq.] 
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grayflsh (gra'fish), . The coalfish. Also call- 
ed yraylord. [Scotch.] 
gray-fly (gra'fli), . The trumpet-fly, a kind of 
bot-fly, a species of (Extrnx. 
grayhead (gra'hed), n. 1. An old gray-headed 
man or woman. 
Else Boys will in your Presence lose their Fear, 
And laugh at the Gray-head they should revere. 
Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, v. 1. 
2. Among whalers, the old male of the sperm- 
whale. C. if. Scammon. 
gray-hen (gra'hen), n. 1. The female of the 
black grouse or blackcock. 
The Black Grouse, better known to the sportsman as 
the Black-cock, and the females the Grey-hen, is chiefly 
confined to North Britain. 
W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 515. 
2. A kind of pear. [Prov. Eng.] 3. A large 
stone bottle. [Prov. Eng.] 
grayhound, n. See greyhound. 
graylag (gra'lag), n. [Written sometimes gray- 
lag goose, but prop., if a hyphen is used, gray 
lag-goose; the bird is also called simply gray 
goose, the qualifying lag referring, it seems, to 
the fact that in England, at the time when the 
name was given, this goose was not migratory, 
but lagged behind when the other wild species 
betook themselves to the north. Cf. lag, n., 
the last comer, dial, logman, the last of a com- 
pany of reapers, lagteeth, the grinders, the last 
teeth to come, etc. Certainly not from AS. lagu, 
lake, nor from It. lago, lake.] The common gray 
Graylag (Anser citurtta). 
or wild goose of Europe, A user cinereus orferus ; 
the fen-, marsh-, or stubble-goose, the wild ori- 
ginal of the domestic goose. 
grayleH, n. See grain. 
grayle 2 t, An obsolete spelling of graip. 
grayle 3 t, . See graifi. 
grayling (gra'ling), n. [Formerly also grai- 
ling ; < ME. "greyling, greling ; < gray + -ling 1 ."] 
1. A fish of the family Salmonidte and genus 
Thymalhts. There are several species, intermediate be- 
tween the whiteflsh and the trout, chiefly characterized by 
Alaskan Grayling ( Thymallus stfni/fr). ( From Report of U. S. 
Fish Commission. 1884.) 
the greater development of the dorsal fin, which is long 
and contains 20 to 24 rays ; this fin is also brightly party- 
colored. They inhabit clear cold streams of northern 
countries. The common grayling of Europe is Thymallus 
vulgaris; related species are the American or Alaskan 
grayling, T. signifer, and the Michigan grayling, T. onta- 
rienxis. 
And in this riuer be vmbers, otherwise called grailings. 
Holinshed, Descrip. of Britaine, xiv. 
The grayling haunts clear and rapid streams, and par- 
ticularly such as flow through mountainous countries. 
Pennant, Brit. Zool., The Grayling. 
And here and there a lusty trout, 
And here and there a grayling. 
Tennyson, The Brook. 
2. The dace. [Local, Eng. (Cheshire).] 3. A 
common European butterfly, Hipparchia semele: 
so called from the gray under side of the wings. 
[Eng.] 
graylord (gra'lord), . Same as grayjisli. [Lo- 
cal, Eng. and Scotch.] 
grayly, greyly (gra'li), adr. [= G. graulicn = 
T)an.graalig; as gray, grey, + -Zy 2 .] With a gray 
hue or tinge. 
graze 
Miss Lois returned, yrai/ly pale, but quiet. 
C. F. tt'oolson, Anne, p. 105. 
graymalkin (gra-mal'kin), n. [See grimalkin.'] 
Same as grimalkin. 
1 Witch. I come, Graymalkin 1 
All. Paddock calls : Anon. 
Shak., Macbeth, i. 1. 
graymill, gray-millet (gra'mil. -mil'et), . 
[Also graymile, aecom. forms, alter F. (jri'mil, 
of E. yromil, gromwell, q. v.] Same as grom- 
graynardt, . [A corrupt form of grained, 
i/rdiier, q. v.] Same as granary. 
The people, for as moche as on atyme they lacked corne 
in theyr graynardes, would haue stein him with stoones. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Oovernour, ii. 9. 
grayness, greyness (gra'nes), n. [< gray, grey, 
+ -ness.] The state or quality of being gray ; 
prevalence of gray, as in light or the atmo- 
sphere; semi-obscurity. 
Surely it was growing dark, for they sprang out like 
mighty light-houses upon the grayness of the void. 
E. S. Phelps, Beyond the Gates, p. 71. 
The view up and down the quays has the cool, neutral 
tone of color that one finds so often in French water-side 
places the bright grayness which is the tone of French 
landscape art. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 102. 
The plain was already sunken in pearly greyness. 
R. L. Stevenson, Treasure of Franchard. 
graystone, greystone (gra'ston), n. Ingeol., 
a grayish or greenish compact volcanic rock, 
composed of feldspar and augite or horn- 
blende, and allied to basalt. 
graywacke, greywacke (gra-wak'e), n. [Also, 
as G., grauwacke, < G. grauutaeke, (. grau, = E. 
gray, + iracke, q. v.] In geol., a compact aggre- 
gate of rounded or subangular grains of various 
silicious rocks, held together by a paste which 
is usually silicious. Graywacke is a slightly metamor- 
phosed detrital rock, and is chiefly found in the Paleozoic 
series. When geology began to be studied as a science, 
the so-called "transition series " was frequently called the 
"Graywacke series," from the predominance in it of the 
rock of that name. Since the establishment of the "Si- 
lurian system " by Murchison, which (in Europe at least) 
consists largely of rocks formerly designated as graywackf 
(in German ijrimmitkr), this term has almost entirely gone 
out of use. 
gray-washing (gra'wosh'ing), . In calico- 
bleaching, an operation following the singeing, 
consisting of washing in pure water in order 
to wet out the cloth and render it more absorb- 
ent, and also to remove some of the weavers' 
dressing. 
gray-weather, . See graywetJier. 
graywether (gra'weTH"er), n. [< gray + we- 
ther 1 ; i. e., gray ram : these stones at a distance 
resembling flocks of sheep. Also spelled erro- 
neously gray-weather, with some vague thought 
of a 'weathered' rock. Cf. weather-head for 
n-etlier-head.] One of numerous blocksof sand- 
stone and conglomerate which are strewn over 
the surface of the ground in Dorsetshire and 
Wiltshire in England. They are supposed to be the 
remains of sandy Tertiary strata which once covered the 
districts where they now occur. It is from these blocks 
that Stonehenge and others of the so-called druidical cir- 
cles were built ; hence they have been also called druid- 
stones and Saracen's (more generally spelled Sarsen's) 
stones. See Saracen. 
gray-whaler (gra'hwa"ler), . One who or 
a vessel which is employed in capturing gray 
whales. 
graze 1 (graz), v. ; pret. and pp. grazed, ppr. 
I/razing. [Early mod. E. also grase; < ME. 
graften, gresen, < AS. grasian (= D. grazen = 
G. grasen = Icel. gresje = Dan. gr&sse), graze, 
< grces, grass: see grass, n., and cf. grass, v. Cf. 
braze 1 from brans 1 , glaze from glass. ] l.intrans. 
1. To eat grass; feed on growing herbage. 
And like an oxe vnder the fote 
He (a man] grazeth as he nedes mote 
To getten him his lines foode. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., i. 
When that gander grasythe on the grene. 
Lydgate, Order of Fools, 1. 137. 
The GiralTa, ... by reason of his long legs before, and 
shorter behind, not able to grase without difttcultie. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 556. 
I take it to be a general opinion that they [hares] graze, 
but it is an erroneous one, at least grass is not their staple. 
Cfnvyer, Treatment of Hares. 
2f. To supply grass. 
Then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will 
never graze to purpose that year. Bacon. 
3f. To spread and devour, as fire. 
As every state lay next to the other that was oppressed, 
so the fire perpetually grazed. Bacon, War with Spain. 
II. trans. 1. To feed or supply with growing 
grass ; furnish pasture for. 
He hath a house and a barn in repair, and a field or two 
to graze his cows, with a garden and orchard. Stpift. 
