Word Definition

Hoary

  1. Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
  2. Moldy; mossy; musty.
  3. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
  4. remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
  5. Of a pale silvery gray.
  6. White or whitish.

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