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  1. 1. a. White or whitish. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Moldy; mossy; musty. Source: opted
  5. 5. a. Of a pale silvery gray. Source: opted
  6. 6. a. Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Source: opted
  7. 7. adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair Source: wordnet
  8. 8. adj. covered with fine whitish hairs or down Source: wordnet
  9. 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. Source: webster

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