gray, grey (gra)

t. [ Canst thou undo a wrinkle? Or change but the complexion of one hair? Yet thou hast gray'd a you sand. Shirley, Bird in a Cage, v. 1. 2. To depolish, as gla . The gla should, in fact, not be ground at all, but only grayed: that is, have its surface removed by rubbing fine emery powder. Lea , Photography, p. 48. 3. In photog., to give a mezzotint effect by covering the negative during the printing with a gla slightly ground or depolished on one side. Pictures thus treated are sometimes called Ber lin portraits. grayback (grā'bak), n. 1. The knot or red breasted sandpiper, Tringa canutus.-2. The gray snipe. [Local, U. S.] -3. The common body-louse, Pediculus vestiment i.-4. The dab, a fish. [Local, Irish.] -5. The California gray whale, Rhachianectes glaucus.-6. The red-headed duck or American pochard, Fuligula ameri [Canada.]-7. The black-headed or American scaup duck, Fuligula marila nearctica. G. Trumbull, Bird Names, p. 55.-8. A Confederate soldier during the American civil war; a graycoat. [Colloq.] can a. gray-bear (gra'bar), n. An arachnidan of the family Phalangiida; a harvestman. [U. S.] graybeard, greybeard (grā bērd), n. and a. I. n. 1. A man with a gray beard; an old man. Gre. Youngling! thou canst not love so dear as I. Tra. Graybeard! thy love doth freeze. 2. Same as bellarmine . Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. There's plenty o' brandy in the greybeard that Luckie Maclearie sent doun. Scott , Waverley, lxiv. 3. The common sertularian hydroid polyp which infests oyster-beds, Sertularia argentea . When it forms patches on the shells, the oysters are said to hair up. II. a. Having a gray beard; old. Hold off! unhand me, gray - beard loon. Cole ridge, Ancient Mariner, i. gray-bird (grā'bėrd), n. A kind of thrush. Grose. [Prov. Eng.]