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
hoary (comparative hoarier, superlative hoariest)
White, whitish, or greyish-white.
White or grey with age.
(zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
(botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
(obsolete) Remote in time past.
(obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.
Old or old-fashioned.
• (whitish, greyish-white): albescent, griseous, whity
• (white or grey with age): grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired; see also elderly
• (old): aged, ancient, olden; see also old
• (botany: covered with greyish-white hairs): canescent
• (remote in time past): bygone, foregone; see also past
• Yahor
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
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
