In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
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
hoariest
superlative form of hoary: most hoary
Source: Wiktionary
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
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.