1. (adj)grey, gray, greyish, grayish 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"
2. (adj)grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
"whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
3. (adj)grey, gray used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
"a stalwart grey figure"
4. (adj)grey, gray intermediate in character or position
"a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
5. (verb)grey, gray make grey
"The painter decided to grey the sky"
6. (verb)grey, gray turn grey
"Her hair began to grey"
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