grey

Verb

• turn grey
  • Her hair began to grey
    

• make grey
  • The painter decided to grey the sky
    

Adjective

• intermediate in character or position
  • a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal
    

• used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
  • a stalwart grey figure
    

• showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
  • whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge
    
  • nodded his hoary head
    

• of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
  • the little grey cells
    
  • gray flannel suit
    
  • a man with greyish hair
    

Noun

• horse of a light gray or whitish color

• clothing that is a grey color
  • he was dressed in grey
    

• a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
  • the Confederate army was a vast grey
    

• Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)

• Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)

• United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  gray , greyish , grayish , grayness , greyness , Grey , Charles Grey , Second Earl Grey , Lady Jane Grey , Zane Grey