Hoary /(?)/
Hoar·y
Hoary
a.
- White or whitish.
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White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
Reverence the hoary head.
- remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
- Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.]
- Of a pale silvery gray. (Zool.)
- Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. (Bot.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Hoary bat
- an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.