Gravy

[Ger. griebe, crispy remains of melted fat, .; Low Sax. greve; Swed. grefwar. The fat and juicy matter that drips from flesh in roasting, or when baked or boiled, serving as a sauce or dre ing for the meat when served at table; as, gravy soup. Gray, Grey, a . [A. S. græg ; Ger. grau : Dan. graa ; D. grauw ; Swed.gra; Gr. geraios , old, ger on , an old man.] Having the color of the hair of an aged person; hoary; hence, white with a mixture of black, or a dark mixed color; ash-colored; resembling the combined color of pepper and salt; as, a gray-headed man, gray Gray Hawk, in Kentucky , a post-office of Jackson co. eyes, a gray mare, . "My hair is gray, but not with years." - Byron. -Mature; old; venerable; as, gray in experience. "Age...spares gray Marathon." - Byron. -n. A gray tint or color; a mixed hue of white and black; the color which is nearest in relation to black. In its common acceptation, it denotes a cla of cool cinerous colors, faint in hue; whence we have blue - grays , olive-grays, green-grays, purple -grays, and grays of all hues in which blue predominates; but no yellow or red grays, the predominance of such hues carrying the compounds into the cla es of brown and maroon. -An animal of a gray color, as a horse, a badger, . "O'er Blenheim's field he rode that day A blood-horse, a proud, arching gray ."-Lloyd. Gray, Asa, an American botanist, was born in Oneida co., N. Y., in 1810, and graduated at Fairfield College in 1831. After a short time spent in the practice of medicine, he devoted himself, under Prof. Torrey, of N. York, to the study of botany. In 1834 he received the appointment of botanist of the U. S. Exploring Expedition; but the delay of that enterprise led him, in 1837, to resign his post. In 1842, Dr. G. became Profe or of Nat. History at Cambridge, Ma . In addition to his lectures at New York, Prof. G. published in 1836 his Elements of Botany , enlarged into the Botanical Text - book ; and in 1838 commenced, with Dr. Torrey, The Flora of North America. In 1848 he published the Manual of Botany for the Northern United States , and the first vol, of the Genera Boreali- American a Ill us trat a , and afterwards