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

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Etymology

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• (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

Anagrams

• Yahor

Source: Wiktionary

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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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