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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

grey-headed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of gray-headed.
    • It is true that there are men to be found who never rise beyond a curacy; as there are grey-headed midshipmen occasionally to be seen in the navy. But the former case is quite as rare as the latter; promotion is the rule, non-promotion the exception, in both professions. 1854, The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, page 114: