1. [n]  horse of a light grey or whitish color
2. [n]  gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"
3. [n]  a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
4. [n]  any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"
5. [n]  United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
6. [n]  American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
7. [n]  English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)
8. [adj]  an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"
9. [adj]  darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
10. [adj]  intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
11. [adj]  used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"
12. [adj]  showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
13. [adj]  clothed in gray or a gray costume; "Gray Ladies are volunteer workers in the American Red Cross"; "the Gray Friars are Franciscan friars who traditionally wear gray habits"
14. [v]  turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"
15. [v]  make gray

1. \Gray\, a. [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. 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.
   {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 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 ({M.
      capito}, and {M. auratus}), the American striped mullet
      ({M. albula}), and the white or silver mullet ({M.
      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.), a parrot ({Psittacus erithacus}),
      very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in
      learning to talk.
   {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 California
      whale ({Rhachianectes glaucus}), formerly taken in large
      numbers in the bays; -- called also {grayback},
      {devilfish}, and {hardhead}.
   

2. \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.
   

A parser generator written in Forth by Martin Anton Ertl <[email protected]>. Gray takes grammars in an extended BNF and produces executable Forth code for recursive descent parsers. There is no special support for error handling. Version 3 runs under Tile Forth Release 2 by Mikael Patel.