grey vs gray
Definitions
noun
- United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
- Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
- Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
Examples
You skin looks a bit slack and grey.
So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder.
And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence.
Definitions
noun
- United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
- American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
- English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
- English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
Examples
A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
Some retailers, including Sears, have already held some "door-buster" early-morning sales, which makes Black Friday -- the day after Thanksgiving that's looked upon as a kick-off to the holiday shopping season -- a little "grayer," he said.
