Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hoary"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hoary \Hoar"y\, a.
1. White or whitish. ``The hoary willows.'' --Addison.
2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
Reverence the hoary head. --Dr. T.
Dwight.
3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] --Knolles.
5. (Zo["o]l.) Of a pale silvery gray.
6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs;
canescent.
{Hoary bat} (Zo["o]l.), an American bat ({Atalapha cinerea}),
having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hoary
adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or
white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
"nodded his hoary head" [syn: {gray}, {grey}, {gray-haired},
{grey-haired}, {gray-headed}, {grey-headed}, {hoar},
{white-haired}]
2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: {rusty}]
3: (biology) covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: {canescent}]
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