Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite. -- Gray buck (Zoˆl.), the chickara. --
Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite. -- Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite. --
Gray duck (Zoˆl.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard. --
Gray falcon (Zoˆl.) the peregrine falcon. -- Gray Friar. See
Franciscan, and Friar. -- Gray hen (Zoˆl.), 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 (Zoˆl.) any one of the numerous species of the genus Mugil, or
family MugilidÊ, 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 (Zoˆl.), the European tawny or brown owl
(Syrnium aluco). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits arctic
America. -- Gray parrot (Zoˆl.), a parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very
commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk.
-- Gray pike. (Zoˆl.) See Sauger. -- Gray snapper (Zoˆl.), a Florida
fish; the sea lawyer. See Snapper. -- Gray snipe (Zoˆl.), the dowitcher
in winter plumage. -- Gray whale (Zoˆl.), 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.
Gray"back` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) The California gray whale. (b) The
redbreasted sandpiper or knot. (c) The dowitcher. (d) The body louse.
Gray"beard` (?), n. An old man. Shak.
Gray"fly` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The trumpet fly. Milton.
Gray"hound` (-hound`), n. (Zoˆl.) See Greyhound.
Gray"ish, a. Somewhat gray.
Gray"lag` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of
Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust.
of Goose.
Gray"ling (?), n. [From Gray, a.] 1. (Zoˆl.) A European fish (Thymallus
vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; --
called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as
a game fish.
And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling.
Tennyson.
2. (Zoˆl.) An American fish of the genus Thymallus, having similar
habits to the above; one species (T. Ontariensis), inhabits several
streams in Michigan; another (T. montanus), is found in the Yellowstone
region.
Gray"ness, n. The quality of being gray.
Gray"stone` (?), n. (Geol.) A grayish or greenish compact rock,
composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.
Gray"wacke` (?), n. [G. grauwacke; grau gray + wacke wacke. See Gray,
and Wacke, and cf. Grauwacke.] (Geol.) A conglomerate or grit rock,
consisting of rounded pebbles and sand firmly united together.
This term, derived from the grauwacke of German miners, was formerly
applied in geology to different grits and slates of the Silurian
series; but it is now seldom used.
Graze (grz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grazed (grzd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Grazing.] [OE. grasen, AS. grasian, fr. grÊs grass. See Grass.] 1. To
feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture
for.
A field or two to graze his cows.
Swift.
2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture);
to browse.
The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
Pope.