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grey noun. Also *gray. ME.
[The adjective used ellipt. or absol.]
Grey clothing or fabric. ME.
G. Downes A blind old man, dressed in grey.
b. The uniform of the Confederate troops in the American Civil War. US. M19.
c. Unbleached fabric. L19.
d. In pl. Grey flannel trousers. colloq. M20.
(The fur or dressed skin of) a badger; gen. grey fur. ME-L19.
An animal distinguished by grey colour, as a grey whale, a grey squirrel, etc.; spec. a grey or white horse. (Earliest in DAPPLE GREY noun) LME.
R. Graves Pituazes's men, all mounted on greys, came at him.
a. A grey-haired person, an old man. LME-E16.
b. A white-skinned person. Black slang. M20.
c. A dull, anonymous, or nondescript person. M20.
A grey or subdued light; the cold sunless light of the morning or evening twilight. L16.
W. Pike The first grey of dawn being the favourite time of attack.
In pl. In full the Scots Greys. A regiment in the British army raised in 1681 as the Royal Regiment of Dragoons and now the 2nd Dragoons, orig. wearing a grey uniform. M18.
Grey colour; a shade of this; greyness. E19.
ash-grey, dapple grey, iron-grey, pearl-grey, silver-grey, etc. French grey: see FRENCH adjective.
J. A. Symonds The colour of the olive tree is delicate. Its pearly greys..in no wise interfere with the lustre. fig.: D. Bagley A world in which black and white merged into an indeterminate grey, where bad actions were done for good reasons and good actions were suspect.
b. A pigment of a grey colour. Freq. with specifying word. L19.
A coin with two heads or two tails. arch. slang. E19.
greyers noun pl. (arch. colloq.) = GREY noun 1d E20.