Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Grayback"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Redhead \Red"head`\ (-h?d`), n.
1. A person having red hair.

2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An American duck ({Aythya Americana}) highly esteemed
as a game bird. It is closely allied to the
canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red.
Called also {red-headed duck}. {American poachard},
{grayback}, and {fall duck}. See Illust. under
{Poachard}.
(b) The red-headed woodpecker. See {Woodpecker}.

3. (Bot.) A kind of milkweed ({Asclepias Curassavica}) with
red flowers. It is used in medicine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Dowitcher \Dow"itch*er\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The red-breasted or gray snipe ({Macrorhamphus griseus}); --
called also {brownback}, and {grayback}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Grayback \Gray"back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The California gray whale.
(b) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.
(c) The dowitcher.
(d) The body louse.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Gray \Gray\, a. [Compar. {Grayer}; superl. {Grayest}.] [OE.
gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw, OHG.
gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.]
[Written also {grey}.]
1. 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.

These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I.
Newton.

2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.

{Gray antimony} (Min.), stibnite.

{Gray buck} (Zo["o]l.), the chickara.

{Gray cobalt} (Min.), smaltite.

{Gray copper} (Min.), tetrahedrite.

{Gray duck} (Zo["o]l.), the gadwall; also applied to the
female mallard.

{Gray falcon} (Zo["o]l.) the peregrine falcon.

{Gray Friar}. See {Franciscan}, and {Friar}.

{Gray hen} (Zo["o]l.), the female of the blackcock or black
grouse. See {Heath grouse}.

{Gray mill or millet} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the
genus {Lithospermum}; gromwell.

{Gray mullet} (Zo["o]l.) any one of the numerous species of
the genus {Mugil}, or family {Mugilid[ae]}, found both in
the Old World and America; as the European species ({M.
capito}, and {M. auratus}), the American striped mullet
({M. albula}), and the white or silver mullet ({M.
Braziliensis}). See {Mullet}.

{Gray owl} (Zo["o]l.), the European tawny or brown owl
({Syrnium aluco}). The great gray owl ({Ulula cinerea})
inhabits arctic America.

{Gray parrot} (Zo["o]l.), a parrot ({Psittacus erithacus}),
very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in
learning to talk.

{Gray pike}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Sauger}.

{Gray snapper} (Zo["o]l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer.
See {Snapper}.

{Gray snipe} (Zo["o]l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.

{Gray whale} (Zo["o]l.), a rather large and swift California
whale ({Rhachianectes glaucus}), formerly taken in large
numbers in the bays; -- called also {grayback},
{devilfish}, and {hardhead}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

grayback
n 1: (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for
Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the
American Civil War; `grayback' derived from their gray
Confederate uniforms [syn: {Rebel}, {Reb}, {Johnny Reb},
{Johnny}]
2: a dowitcher with a gray back [syn: {Limnodromus griseus}]
3: sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the S
hemisphere [syn: {knot}, {Calidris canutus}]


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