gray

an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white

• “gray flannel suit”
• “hair just turning gray”

showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair

• “whose beard with age is hoar” Coleridge
• “nodded his hoary head”

darkened with overcast

• “a dark day”
• “a dull sky”
• “a gray rainy afternoon”
• “gray clouds”
• “the sky was leaden and thick”

used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms)

• “a stalwart gray figure”

intermediate in character or position

• “a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal”

a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

gray clothing

• “he was dressed in gray”

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray

• “the Confederate army was a vast gray”

horse of a light grey or whitish color

English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)

American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin''s theories of evolution (1810-1888)

make gray

• “The painter decided to grey the sky”

turn gray

• “Her hair began to gray”