Hoary \Hoar"y\, a.
1. White or whitish. "The hoary willows." --Addison.
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2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
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Reverence the hoary head. --Dr. T.
Dwight.
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3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
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4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] --Knolles.
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5. (Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray.
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6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs;
canescent.
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Hoary bat (Zool.), an American bat ({Atalapha cinerea),
having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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, grizzly,
hoar, white-haired]
2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: rusty]
3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent]
[also: hoariest, hoarier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoary":
acknowledged, admitted, advanced, advanced in life,
advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient,
antediluvian, antique, argent, argentine, auld, canescent, chalky,
conventional, cretaceous, customary, dateless, elderly,
established, fixed, fleecy-white, folk, frost-beaded,
frost-chequered, frost-covered, frost-fettered, frost-rent,
frostbound, frosted, frostlike, frosty, frosty-faced, gray,
gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grizzled, grizzly,
grown old, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoar, hoar-frosted,
hoaryheaded, immemorial, inveterate, lactescent, legendary,
lily-white, long-established, long-standing, marble, marmoreal,
milky, mythological, niveous, of long standing, of old,
of the folk, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history,
old as time, old-time, olden, oral, patriarchal, platinum,
prescriptive, pure white, received, recognized, rime-frosted,
rimed, rooted, senectuous, silver, silver-bearded, silver-headed,
silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, time-honored,
timeless, timeworn, traditional, tried and true, true-blue,
understood, unwritten, venerable, white, white as snow,
white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired,
worshipful, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
canescent, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoarier, hoariest, rusty, white-haired
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