From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
hoary
adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or
white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
"nodded his hoary head" [syn: gray, grey,
gray-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed,
grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, white-haired]
2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: rusty]
3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hoary \Hoar"y\, a.
1. White or whitish. "The hoary willows." --Addison.
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2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
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Reverence the hoary head. --Dr. T.
Dwight.
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3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
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4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] --Knolles.
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5. (Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray.
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6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs;
canescent.
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Hoary bat (Zool.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea),
having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
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