Would her ministrations to the military be taken differently if she was older, grayer and a little less shapely?
Meanwhile, the Democrats are grayer, seeing their average age climb from 58 to 60.2 4.
It's made him older—and grayer—and the trouble with his eye comes oftener.
Day by day passed in the prison, each wearier and grayer than the other.
Similar to No. 588a, but adult male with black duller or grayer; female lighter brown.
This species is like the latter except that it is grayer on the back of the head and neck.
The dean's beard was longer and grayer since we last saw him; but his cheeks were rosy, and his figure that of a Samson.
The male of this species is like the eastern Cardinal but the female is said to be grayer.
Her hair was grayer, the lines on her face were deeper, dull pains beset her sometimes, and a lethargy she could not conquer.
Said to be grayer and the bill to average larger than that of the last.
Old English græg (Mercian grei), from Proto-Germanic *grisja- "gray" (cf. Old Norse grar, Old Frisian gre, Middle Dutch gra, Dutch graw, Old High German grao, German grau), with no certain cognates outside Germanic. French gris, Spanish gris, Italian grigio, Medieval Latin griseus are Germanic loan-words.
The distinction between British grey and U.S. gray developed 20c. The noun is c.1200, from the adjective. Gray as figurative for "Southern troops in the U.S. Civil War" is first recorded 1863, in reference to their uniform color. Expression the gray mare is the better horse in reference to households ruled by wives is recorded from 1540s. The verb is 1610s (with an isolated instance from late 14c.). Related: Grayed; graying.
A unit for a specific absorbed dose of radiation equal to 100 rads.
Gray (grā), Henry. 1825?-1861.
British anatomist whose work Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical (1858), known as Gray's Anatomy, remains a standard text.