HOARY

a.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
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White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison.

2.
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White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.

3.
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Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

4.
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Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.

5.
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Of a pale silvery gray.

6.
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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.

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