Gray Whale - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gray whaleGray whale
a rather large and swift baleen whale of the northern Pacific Eschrichtius robustus formerly Rhachianectes glaucus having short jaws and no dorsal fin called also grayback devilfish and hardhead It grows to a length of 50 feet sometimes 60 feet It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of California and is now rare It lives up to 50 or 60 years and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons...
Grayback
The California gray whale...
Whales
Whales, like sturgeon, are royal fish, which when taken belong as a right to the Crown; but the right to them may be vested in the lord of a manor or other subject by grant from the Crown, or by prescription, Williams on Commons, p. 292.The whaling industry is regulated by the (English) Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act prohibits the catching and treatment of whales within waters of the United Kingdom and provides for the licensing of whaling ships and whale-oil-factories....
Right whale
The bowhead Arctic or Greenland whale Balaeligna mysticetus from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained...
Silver gray
Having a gray color with a silvery luster as silver gray hair...
gray market
gray market : a market employing irregular but not illegal methods ;esp : a market that legally circumvents authorized channels of distribution to sell goods at prices lower than those intended by the manufacturer ...
charcoal gray
very dark gray...
Gray
any color of neutral hue between white and black white mixed with black as the color of pepper and salt or of ashes or of hair whitened by age sometimes a dark mixed color as the soft gray eye of a dove...
gray haired
showing characteristics of age especially having gray or white hair...
Grayness
The quality of being gray...
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