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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

hoary
    adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or
           white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
           "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-
           haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed,
           grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
    2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary, rusty]
    3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent,
       hoary]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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Thesaurus Results for Hoary:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

acknowledged, admitted, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antique, argent, argentine, auld, canescent, chalky, conventional, cretaceous, customary, dateless, elderly, established, fixed, fleecy-white, folk, frost-beaded, frost-chequered, frost-covered, frost-fettered, frost-rent, frostbound, frosted, frostlike, frosty, frosty-faced, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grizzled, grizzly, grown old, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoar, hoar-frosted, hoaryheaded, immemorial, inveterate, lactescent, legendary, lily-white, long-established, long-standing, marble, marmoreal, milky, mythological, niveous, of long standing, of old, of the folk, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-time, olden, oral, patriarchal, platinum, prescriptive, pure white, received, recognized, rime-frosted, rimed, rooted, senectuous, silver, silver-bearded, silver-headed, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, time-honored, timeless, timeworn, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, white, white as snow, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, worshipful, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

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