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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

... youth who shows a maiden's chin, whose brows have ne'er been bound The helmet's heavy ring within, gains manhood from the sound; The hoary sire beside the fire forgets his feebleness, Once more to feel the cap of ...

— Mediaeval Tales • Various

... assumes the control, believing he is the originator of her ideas. Take this case of capture: If, as I suggest, the young women assisted or even took the initiative in their own captures, they would very plainly not be willing to allow sexual relationships with another hoary patriarch. I would urge that here again it was by the action of the young women, rather than the young men, that the new order was established. But this is a small matter. If I am right, the communal living and common danger among the women would powerfully bind them together in ...

— The Position of Woman in Primitive Society - A Study of the Matriarchy • C. Gasquoine Hartley

... say. Nothing in the least original, I assure you. I see the folly and the inconvenience of that now. I have consulted hoary experience. I have sat reverently at the feet of old nurses. I have talked with mothers in the spirit of a disciple, and I have learnt, ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

... Thy Mercy sweeten'd ev'ry Soil, Made ev'ry Region please; The hoary Alpine Hills it warm'd, And ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... were "both well stricken in years." There is something venerable in hoary age, especially when adorned with the graces of the Spirit. The mind reposes with peculiar complacency on those who, having long "adorned the doctrines of God their Saviour in all things," are waiting quietly and confidently for their admission to heaven. ...

— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II • Francis Augustus Cox

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