Definitions for: Hoary

[adj] (biology) covered with fine whitish hairs or down
[adj] ancient; "hoary jokes"
[adj] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: canescent, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, hairy, hirsute, hoar, old, rusty, white-haired

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