a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

[ Syn: grayness , grey , greyness ]

clothing that is a grey color; he was dressed in grey

[ Syn: grey ]

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; the Confederate army was a vast grey

[ Syn: grey ]

horse of a light gray or whitish color

[ Syn: grey ]

the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad

[ Syn: gy ]

English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

[ Syn: gray , louis harold gray ]

English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

[ Syn: gray , thomas gray ]

American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

[ Syn: gray , robert gray ]

United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwins theories of evolution (1810-1888)

[ Syn: gray , asa gray ]

of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; the little grey cells; gray flannel suit; a man with greyish hair

[ Syn: grey , greyish , grayish ]

showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge; nodded his hoary head

[ Syn: grey , grey-haired , gray-haired , grey-headed , gray-headed , grizzly , hoar , hoary , white-haired ]

used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); a stalwart grey figure

[ Syn: grey ]

intermediate in character or position; a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

[ Syn: grey ]

make grey; The painter decided to grey the sky

[ Syn: grey ]

turn grey; Her hair began to grey

[ Syn: grey ]