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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hoary \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hoary adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: {gray}, {grey}, {gray-haired}, {grey-haired}, {gray-headed}, {grey-headed}, {hoar}, {white-haired}] 2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: {rusty}] 3: (biology) covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: {canescent}]
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