hoary Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
gray-headed; gray; grey-haired; grey-headed; grizzly; grey; white-haired; hoar; gray-haired.
- whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge
- nodded his hoary head
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adjective satellite ancient
rusty.
- hoary jokes
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adjective satellite covered with fine whitish hairs or down
canescent.
WordNet
Hoar"y adjective
Definitions
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White or whitish. "The hoary willows." Addison. - White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.
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Hence, remote in time past; as, .hoary antiquity -
Moldy; mossy; musty. Obs. Knolles. -
(Zoöl.) Of a pale silvery gray. -
(Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.