hoary

hoary is an   Adverb

Definition:

[1] White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison.

[2] White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.

[3] Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

[4] Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.

[5] Of a pale silvery gray.

[6] Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.

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