greyhead
(ˈgreɪhɛd)
1. A grey-headed person.
| 1702 Steele Funeral v. i. 79 Else Boys will in your Presence lose their Fear, And laugh at the Grey-head they should revere. [But should not the reading be grey head?] |
2. a. Sc. A kind of fish, prob. the grey-fish.
| a 1692 A. Symson Descr. Galloway (1823) 25 Upon the coast of this parish are many sorts of white fish taken; one kind whereof is called by the inhabitants Greyheads. |
b. A male sperm-whale, Physeter catodon, with grey markings on its head; cf. grey-headed a. 4.
| a 1889 C. M. Scammon (Cent. D.). 1908 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 2/1 The right whale and the grayhead are gone. |
3. = greybeard 2.
| 1892 Robson in Standard 23 Nov. 3/3 ‘A grey head’..was not a bottle, but a stone jar of whisky. |