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greyish, a.|ˈgreɪɪʃ|
Forms: 6–9 grayish, (6 greiesh, graish), 7– greyish.
[f. grey a. + -ish.]
Somewhat grey.
1562A. Brooke Romeus & Juliet (New Shaks. Soc.) 22 This barefoote fryer gyrt with cord his grayish weede. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. iv. xx. (1589) 86 An euen Nose, on either side Stood out a graish Eie. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iv. 72 The prophet [Proteus]..With great inforcement roll'd his flaminge eyes with greiesh sight [L. lumine glauco]. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 9 Those of the second altitude..had a grayish colour, as if covered with light and sandy earth. 1713J. Warder True Amazons (ed. 2) 36 Their Wings..grow ragged, and somewhat greyish. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xxvii, Now over Coolin's eastern head The greyish light begins to spread. 1880Huxley Crayfish i. 31 The young animal is of a greyish colour.
b. Of hair.
1611Cotgr., Grisastre, grayish, hoarie. 1663Cowley Cutter Coleman St. v. ii, A Beard a little greyish. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. vii. 194 The hair..also on the upper lip and chin, where it was greyish.
c. Comb., qualifying the names of other colours, as greyish-black, greyish blue, greyish brown, greyish green, greyish white, greyish yellow, etc.; also greyish-looking adj.
1752Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 259 The colour is a dusky greyish-brown. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 357 Greyish blue marble. 1831Brewster Optics vii. 70 The effect of all the colours when combined will be a greyish-white. 1843Portlock Geol. 211 Hypersthene..passes into a greyish-green diallage. 1873C. H. Ralfe Phys. Chem. 200 This..forms a greyish black precipitate. 1874G. Lawson Dis. Eye 37 A small..greyish-looking ulcer. 1888Athenæum 10 Nov. 632/1 A little boy in a greyish-olive smock frock. |