Meaning of HOARY
| Pronunciation: | | 'howree
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | canescent, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, hairy, hirsute, hoar, old, rusty, white-haired |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Definition: | | Covered with a greyish layer of very short, closely interwoven hairs. |
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