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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), adjective [Compar. {Grayer}; superl. {Grayest}.] [OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw, OHG. gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.] [Written also {grey}.]
1. any color of neutral hue between white and black; 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.
4. gloomy; dismal. [PJC]
{Gray antimony} (Min.), stibnite.
{Gray buck} (Zo["o]l.), the chickara.
{Gray cobalt} (Min.), smaltite.
{Gray copper} (Min.), tetrahedrite.
{Gray duck} (Zo["o]l.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard.
{Gray falcon} (Zo["o]l.) the peregrine falcon.
{Gray Friar}. See {Franciscan}, and {Friar}.
{Gray hen} (Zo["o]l.), the female of the blackcock or black grouse. See {Heath grouse}.
{Gray mill} or {Gray millet} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus {Lithospermum}; gromwell.
{Gray mullet} (Zo["o]l.) any one of the numerous species of the genus {Mugil}, or family {Mugilid[ae]}, found both in the Old World and America; as the European species ({Mugilid[ae] capito}, and {Mugilid[ae] auratus}), the American striped mullet ({Mugilid[ae] albula}), and the white or silver mullet ({Mugilid[ae] Braziliensis}). See {Mullet}.
{Gray owl} (Zo["o]l.), the European tawny or brown owl ({Syrnium aluco}). The great gray owl ({Ulula cinerea}) inhabits arctic America.
{Gray parrot} (Zo["o]l.), an African parrot ({Psittacus erithacus}), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. Also called {jako}.
{Gray pike}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Sauger}.
{Gray snapper} (Zo["o]l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See {Snapper}.
{Gray snipe} (Zo["o]l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
{Gray whale} (Zo["o]l.), a rather large and swift whale of the northern Pacific ({Eschrichtius robustus}, formerly {Rhachianectes glaucus}), having short jaws and no dorsal fin. It grows to a length of 50 feet (someimes 60 feet). It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of California, and is now rare; -- called also {grayback}, {devilfish}, and {hardhead}. It lives up to 50 or 60 years and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grayback \Gray"back'\, noun (Zo["o]l.) (a) The California gray whale. (b) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot. (c) The dowitcher. (d) The body louse.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gray whale \Gray whale\ (Zo["o]l.), a rather large and swift baleen whale of the northern Pacific ({Eschrichtius robustus}, formerly {Rhachianectes glaucus}), having short jaws and no dorsal fin; -- called also {grayback}, {devilfish}, and {hardhead}. It grows to a length of 50 feet (sometimes 60 feet). It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of California, and is now rare. It lives up to 50 or 60 years and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons. [1913 Webster + PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Redhead \Red"head'\ (-h?d'), noun
1. A person having red hair.
2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) An American duck ({Aythya Americana}) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also {red-headed duck}. {American poachard}, {grayback}, and {fall duck}. See Illust. under {Poachard}. (b) The red-headed woodpecker. See {Woodpecker}.
3. (Bot.) A kind of milkweed ({Asclepias Curassavica}) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dowitcher \Dow"itch*er\, noun (Zo["o]l.) The red-breasted or gray snipe ({Macrorhamphus griseus}); -- called also {brownback}, and {grayback}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grayback
noun
1: 'johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; 'grayback' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms [syn: {Rebel}, {Reb}, {Johnny Reb}, {Johnny}]
2: a dowitcher with a gray back [syn: {Limnodromus griseus}]
3: a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere [syn: {knot}, {Calidris canutus}]
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