Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old gray-headed man or woman.
- noun Among whalers, the old male of the sperm-whale.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person with
gray hair; anelderly person.
Etymologies
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gray + head
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Examples
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"Here you are, a grayhead at thirty-five, without a thing in life but that farm, and you -- heavens, Mac, don't you know that you are one of the greatest Greek scholars in the world?
The City and the World and Other Stories Francis Clement Kelley 1909
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