About The Word Hoary
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Hoary
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What's The Definition Of Hoary?
[adj] (biology) covered with fine whitish hairs or down
[adj] ancient; "hoary jokes" [adj] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" Synonyms | Synonyms for Hoary: canescent | gray | gray-haired | gray-headed | grey | grey-haired | grey-headed | hairy | hirsute | hoar | old | rusty | white-haired Related Terms | Find terms related to Hoary: acknowledged | admitted | advanced | advanced in life | advanced in years | aged | ageless | age-old | along in years | ancient | antediluvian | antique | argent | argentine | auld | canescent | chalky | conventional | cretaceous | customary | dateless | elderly | established | fixed | fleecy-white | folk | frost-beaded | frostbound | frost-chequered | frost-covered | frosted | frost-fettered | frostlike | frost-rent | frosty | frosty-faced | gray | gray with age | gray-haired | gray-headed | grizzled | grizzly | grown old | hallowed | handed down | heroic | hoar | hoar-frosted | hoaryheaded | immemorial | inveterate | lactescent | legendary | lily-white | long-established | long-standing | marble | marmoreal | milky | mythological | niveous | of long standing | of old | of the folk | of yore | old | old as history | old as Methuselah | old as time | olden | old-time | oral | patriarchal | platinum | prescriptive | pure white | received | recognized | rimed | rime-frosted | rooted | senectuous | silver | silver-bearded | silvered | silver-headed | silvery | snow-white | snowy | swan-white | time-honored | timeless | timeworn | traditional | tried and true | true-blue | understood | unwritten | venerable | white | white as snow | white with age | white-bearded | white-crowned | white-haired | worshipful | wrinkled | wrinkly | years old See Also | Hoary In Webster's Dictionary \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. (Zo["o]l.) Of a pale silvery gray.
6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs;
canescent.
{Hoary bat} (Zo["o]l.), an American bat ({Atalapha cinerea}),
having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
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