comfrey | (noun) leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked | Synonyms: healing herb |
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(noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: cumfrey |
cumfrey | (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: comfrey |
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drey | (noun) the nest of a squirrel | - |
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foreyard | (noun) a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail. | Synonyms: fore-yard |
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grey | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, greyish |
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(adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: gray |
(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
(adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: gray |
(noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: gray |
(noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: gray |
(noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, greyness |
(noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: gray |
(verb) turn grey | Synonyms: gray |
(verb) make grey | Synonyms: gray |
greyback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: grayback, Limnodromus griseus |
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(noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, knot |
(noun) `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms | Synonyms: Johnny, Johnny Reb, Reb, Rebel |
greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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(noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
greyed | (adjective) deprived of color | Synonyms: dulled |
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greyhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grayhen, grey hen, heath hen |
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greyhound | (noun) a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog | - |
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greyish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, grey |
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greylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag goose |
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greyly | (adverb) having a grey appearance | Synonyms: grayly |
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greyness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, grey |
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lamprey | (noun) primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue | Synonyms: lamper eel, lamprey eel |
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multistorey | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistoried, multistory |
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orphrey | (noun) a richly embroidered edging on an ecclesiastical vestment | - |
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osprey | (noun) large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years | Synonyms: fish eagle, fish hawk, Pandion haliaetus, sea eagle |
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palfrey | (noun) especially a light saddle horse for a woman | - |
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prey | (noun) animal hunted or caught for food | Synonyms: quarry |
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(noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, quarry, target |
(verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: feed |
(verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, raven |
storey | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, story |
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storeyed | (adjective) having stories as indicated | Synonyms: storied |
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surrey | (noun) a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats | - |
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trey | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: three |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |