hoary
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hoary (comparative hoarier, superlative hoariest)
- white or gray with age
- The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.
- 1787, John Rippon, "How Firm a Foundation":
- And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,
- Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne.
- (zoology) of a pale silvery gray.
- (botany) covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent
- (obsolete) remote in time past
- (obsolete) moldy; mossy; musty
