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adjective

Hoary adj.

White or whitish. "The hoary willows."

White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. "Reverence the hoary head."

Hence, Remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

Moldy; mossy; musty. (Obs.)

(Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray.

(Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.

Hoary bat (Zool.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hoary" Quotes from Famous Books

... gentlemen," cried out the indignant Colonel. "Because I never could have believed that Englishmen could meet together and allow a man, and an old man, so to disgrace himself. For shame, you old wretch! Go home to your bed, you hoary old sinner! And for my part, I'm not sorry that my son should see, for once in his life, to what shame and degradation and dishonour, drunkenness and whiskey may bring a man. Never mind the change, sir!—Curse the change!" says ...

— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am ...

— An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism • Joseph Stump

... of no importance that they both knew this to be a prevarication about which St. Peter would not trouble his hoary head nor take the pains to indite in ...

— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath

... happens that I can help you out there, my girlie," smiled Elizabeth, smoothing the damp curls back from the flushed cheeks. "John has a book in his library of just such things as that. We'll get it and hunt up some nice, new stories that aren't hoary with age." ...

— The Lilac Lady • Ruth Alberta Brown

... knuckles, but so gently that he could not hear them himself. Glenn seemed to grow angry, and seizing his man's musket, was in the act of applying the end of it violently, when the gate flew open at one spring, and a hoary porter stood bowing and ...

— Wild Western Scenes • John Beauchamp Jones

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