Grayback: alternatives and connections

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secreti…

Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.

A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…

Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.

A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other wh…

Gray; bluish gray.

To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.

The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast…

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death,…

The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.