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(n) United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
(n) Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
(n) Englishman who as Prime minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
(n) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"
(n) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
(n) gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"
(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) 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"
(s) darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
(v) make gray; "The painter decided to grey the sky"
(v) turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"

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