HOARIER

HOARY

canescent, hoary

(adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down

hoary, rusty

(adjective) ancient; “hoary jokes”

grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired

(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; “whose beard with age is hoar”-Coleridge; “nodded his hoary head”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

hoarier

comparative form of hoary

Source: Wiktionary


HOARY

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. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Of a pale silvery gray.

6. (Bot.)

Definition: 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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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