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GRAY
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English
English : habitational name from Lydiard in Wiltshire or Lydeard in Somerset, both of which apparently preserve a British name composed of Celtic garth ‘hill’ with an uncertain first element, possibly lē ‘gray’.
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English : habitational name from Lichfield in Staffordshire. The first element preserves a British name recorded as Letocetum during the Romano-British period. This means ‘gray wood’, from words which are the ancestors of Welsh llŵyd ‘gray’ and coed ‘wood’. By the Old English period this had been reduced to Licced, and the element feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ was added to describe a patch of cleared land within the ancient wood.English : habitational name from Litchfield in Hampshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Liveselle. This is probably from an Old English hlīf ‘shelter’ + Old English scylf ‘shelf’, ‘ledge’. The subsequent transformation of the place name may be the result of folk etymological association with Old English hlið, hlid ‘slope’ + feld ‘open country’.
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English : probably a patronymic from Gray, or possibly a variant spelling of Grace.
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Gray-haired: son of the Gray family; son of Gregory.
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English : habitational name from Horwich in Lancashire, so named from Old English hÄr ‘gray’ + wice ‘wych elm’.
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English : habitational name from Great and Little Horwood in Buckinghamshire, named from Old English horu ‘dirty’, ‘muddy’ + wudu ‘wood’, or from Horwood in Devon, which may be of the same derivation or may have Old English hÄr ‘gray’ as the first element.
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Son of the Gray Haired Man; Gray-haired; Son of Gregory
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English surname transferred to forename use, from a byname for someone having gray hair or a beard, from Old English græg, GRAY means "grey."
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English : nickname for an old man or someone with prematurely gray hair, from Middle English hore, Old English hÄr ‘gray’.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a slope or shore, Old English Åra, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, as for example Oare in Kent, Berkshire, and Wiltshire.
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Gray-haired
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English (Devon and Cornwall)
English (Devon and Cornwall) : habitational name from any of various places in eastern Cornwall now known as Lidcott, Lydcott, Ludcott, and Lidcutt. All are named from Old Cornish luit ‘gray’ + cuit ‘wood’.
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English : variant of Harlock, a nickname for someone with gray hair, from Old English hÄr ‘gray’ + locc ‘lock’.
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English : nickname for someone with a patch of gray in his hair, from Old English hÄr ‘gray’ + locc ‘lock of hair’.
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English American
Son of the reeve or Gray-haired: son of the Gray family; son of Gregory.
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Son of the Gray-haired Man
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Welsh
Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh glas ‘gray’, ‘green’, ‘blue’, probably denoting someone with silver-gray hair. Compare Glass.English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of cord and string, from Middle English lace ‘cord’ (Old French laz, las).
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English : perhaps a deliberate alteration of Leatherhead, a habitational name from Leatherhead in Surrey, which is named from Celtic lēd ‘gray’ + rïd ‘ford’, or alternatively a habitational name from Lythwood in Shropshire, which is named from Old English hlið ‘slope’ + wudu ‘wood’.Zachariah Leatherwood, son of John Leatherwood, was born in Prince William Co., VA, about 1735. After the revolutionary war, he settled in Spartanburg Co., SC, with his second wife, Jane Calvert, and many of his fourteen children.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of various places, for example in the Scottish Borders and in Cheshire, Lancashire, Lothian, Northumberland, and North and West Yorkshire, called Harwood or Harewood from Old English hÄr ‘gray’ or hara ‘hare’ + wudu ‘wood’. This name has also become established in Ireland.
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Son of the Gray-haired Man
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English : nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Old English græg ‘gray’. In Scotland and Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled’, ‘gray’ (see Reavey). In North America this name has assimilated names with similar meaning from other European languages.English and Scottish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gratus, meaning ‘welcome’, ‘pleasing’ + the locative suffix -acum.French and Swiss French : habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône and Le Gray in Seine-Maritime, both in France, or from Gray-la-ville in Switzerland, or a regional name from the Swiss canton of Graubünden.A leading English family called Grey, holders of the earldom of Stamford, can be traced to Henry de Grey, who was granted lands at Thurrock, Essex, by Richard I (1189–99). They once held great power, and Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk (1517–54), married a granddaughter of Henry VII. Because of this he felt entitled to claim the throne for his daughter, Lady Jane Grey (1537–54), after the death of Henry VIII. For this, and for his part in Wyatt’s rebellion, both he and his daughter were beheaded.
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superl.
Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
n.
The quality of being gray.
n.
An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses.
superl.
White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
a.
Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
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A dyestuff of the induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.
n.
The California gray whale.
a.
Of a dark gray, like slate.
n.
A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo.
n.
A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.
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Somewhat gray.
n.
A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
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The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose.
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A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.
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Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.
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An iron-gray color; also, a horse of this color.
superl.
Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
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An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
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Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshly broken.