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(n) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
(n) gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"
(n) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"
(n) horse of a light grey or whitish color
(n) English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)
(n) American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
(n) United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin''s theories of evolution (1810-1888)
(s) an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"
(s) showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
(s) darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
(s) used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"
(s) intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
(v) make gray; "The painter decided to grey the sky"
(v) turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"

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