Thesaurus: hoary

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1. a. White or whitish.
2. a. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
3. a. remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4. a. Moldy; mossy; musty.
5. a. Of a pale silvery gray.
6. a. Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
7. adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
8. adj. covered with fine whitish hairs or down
9. 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. (Zoöl.) Of a pale silvery gray. 6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.