Definition of Grey-headed

1. Adjective. Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair. "Nodded his hoary head"

Exact synonyms: Gray, Gray-haired, Gray-headed, Grey, Grey-haired, Grizzly, Hoar, Hoary, White-haired
Similar to: Old
Derivative terms: Grizzle, Hoariness, Hoariness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grey-headed

grew on
grew out of
grew up
grewed
grewing
grews
grewsome
grewsomer
grewsomest
grex
grex name
grex names
grey
grey-collar
grey-haired
grey-headed (current term)
grey-heron
grey-legged tinamou
grey-legged tinamous
grey-necked wood rail
grey-necked wood rails
grey-throated rail
grey-throated rails
grey-wolf
grey alder
grey area
grey areas
grey crescent
grey crow
grey crows

Literary usage of Grey-headed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"grey-headed," the Doctor says of his uncle: " He frequently told me, even when memory had resigned its tenaciousness to his 80th year, that this excellent ..."

2. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1852)
"grey-headed WAGTAIL. BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL. YELLOW WAGTAIL. ... THE grey-headed Wagtail is plentiful throughout the central parts of Europe—Germany, France, ..."

3. Chronicles of the City of Perugia, 1492-1503 by Francesco Maturanzio (1905)
"There was his Highness Gentile,and Giovan Paolo, and Gismondo and Carlo and Grifone; and Guido Baglione, old and grey-headed; and every other man of that ..."

4. The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humour by Joe Miller (1865)
"... when an old grey-headed Irish sergeant stepped up with " Plaze, 5'er honour, what shall -we tire at?" " Fire at the crisis," said Duncan. ..."

5. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"HABITAT.—Sikim and Nepal. DESCRIPTION.—At first sight this seems to be a grey-headed form of the last species, but with larger ears; ..."

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