hoary : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hoary	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hoary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hoary adj showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" Synonym(s): grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired ancient; "hoary jokes" Synonym(s): hoary, rusty covered with fine whitish hairs or down Synonym(s): canescent, hoary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hoary \Hoar"y\, a. 1. White or whitish. [bd]The hoary willows.[b8] --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[94]l.) Of a pale silvery gray. 6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. {Hoary bat} (Zo[94]l.), an American bat ({Atalapha cinerea}), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.