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Gray"beard` (?), n. An old man. Shak.

Gray"fly` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The trumpet fly. Milton.

Gray"hound` (-hound`), n. (Zoˆl.) See Greyhound.

Gray"ish, a. Somewhat gray.

Gray"lag` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose.

Gray"ling (?), n. [From Gray, a.] 1. (Zoˆl.) A European fish (Thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish.

And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling.

Tennyson.

2. (Zoˆl.) An American fish of the genus Thymallus, having similar habits to the above; one species (T. Ontariensis), inhabits several streams in Michigan; another (T. montanus), is found in the Yellowstone region.

Gray"ness, n. The quality of being gray.

Gray"stone` (?), n. (Geol.) A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.

Gray"wacke` (?), n. [G. grauwacke; grau gray + wacke wacke. See Gray, and Wacke, and cf. Grauwacke.] (Geol.) A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles and sand firmly united together.

This term, derived from the grauwacke of German miners, was formerly applied in geology to different grits and slates of the Silurian series; but it is now seldom used.

Graze (grz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grazed (grzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Grazing.] [OE. grasen, AS. grasian, fr. grÊs grass. See Grass.] 1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

A field or two to graze his cows.

Swift.

2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.

The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.

Pope.

3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep.

Shak.

4. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

Graze, v. i. 1. To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.

2. To yield grass for grazing.

The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose.

Bacon.

3. To touch something lightly in passing.