GRAYED
Verb
grayed
simple past tense and past participle of gray
Source: Wiktionary
GRAY
Gray, a. [Compar. Grayer (; superl. Grayest.] Etym: [OE. gray, grey,
AS. grg, grg; akin to D. graauw OHG. gro, G. grau, Dan. graa, Dw. gr,
Icel. grdr.] [Written also grey.]
1. White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, 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.
2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames. Gray antimony (Min.),
stibnite.
– Gray buck (Zoöl.), the chickara.
– Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
– Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
– Gray duck (Zoöl.), the gadwall; also applied to the female
mallard.
– Gray falcon (Zoöl.) the peregrine falcon.
– Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
– Gray hen (Zoöl.), the female of the blackcock or black grouse.
See Heath grouse.
– Gray mill or millet (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus
Lithospermum; gromwell.
– Gray mullet (Zoöl.) any one of the numerous species of the genus
Mugil, or family Mugilidæ, found both in the Old World and America;
as the European species (M. capito, and M. auratus), the American
striped mullet (M. albula), and the white or silver mullet (M.
Braziliensis). See Mullet.
– Gray owl (Zoöl.), the European tawny or brown owl (Syrnium
aluco). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits arctic America.
– Gray parrot (Zoöl.), a parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very
commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk.
– Gray pike. (Zoöl.) See Sauger.
– Gray snapper (Zoöl.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See
Snapper.
– Gray snipe (Zoöl.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
– Gray whale (Zoöl.), a rather large and swift California whale
(Rhachianectes glaucus), formerly taken in large numbers in the bays;
– called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead.
Gray, n.
1. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or
whitish tint.
2. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind
of salmon.
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats thy life, my
gallant gray. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition