THOMAS GRAY Synonyms

• a lyric poet

• an ornamental caparison for a horse

• put a caparison on

• a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

• informal terms for journalists

• French playwright (1791-1861)

• someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

• a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut

• score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking

• a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)

• a fluent and prolific writer

• writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

• a person who is able to write and has written something

• a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

• English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

• clothing that is a grey color

• English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

• American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

• horse of a light gray or whitish color

• United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

• the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad

• of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black

• showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

• used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)

• intermediate in character or position

• make grey

• turn grey