hoary

hoary
    adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or
           white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
           "nodded his hoary head" [syn: {grey}, {gray}, {grey-
           haired}, {gray-haired}, {grey-headed}, {gray-headed},
           {grizzly}, {hoar}, {hoary}, {white-haired}]
    2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: {hoary}, {rusty}]
    3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: {canescent},
       {hoary}]
    

Hoary \Hoar"y\, a.
   1. White or whitish. "The hoary willows." --Addison.
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   2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
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            Reverence the hoary head.             --Dr. T.
                                                  Dwight.
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   3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
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   4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] --Knolles.
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   5. (Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray.
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   6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs;
      canescent.
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   {Hoary bat} (Zool.), an American bat ({Atalapha cinerea}),
      having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoary":
      acknowledged, admitted, advanced, advanced in life,
      advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient,
      antediluvian, antique, argent, argentine, auld, canescent, chalky,
      conventional, cretaceous, customary, dateless, elderly,
      established, fixed, fleecy-white, folk, frost-beaded,
      frost-chequered, frost-covered, frost-fettered, frost-rent,
      frostbound, frosted, frostlike, 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 Methuselah, old as history,
      old as time, old-time, olden, oral, patriarchal, platinum,
      prescriptive, pure white, received, recognized, rime-frosted,
      rimed, rooted, senectuous, silver, silver-bearded, silver-headed,
      silvered, 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