grey definition

1. United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
2. Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
3. Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
4. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
• examples: the Confederate army was a vast grey
5. clothing that is a grey color
• examples: he was dressed in grey
6. horse of a light gray or whitish color
7. make grey
• examples: The painter decided to grey the sky
8. turn grey
• examples: Her hair began to grey
9. of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
• examples: the little grey cells
• examples: gray flannel suit
• examples: a man with greyish hair
10. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; -Coleridge
• examples: whose beard with age is hoar
• examples: nodded his hoary head
11. used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
• examples: a stalwart grey figure
12. intermediate in character or position
• examples: a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal