Hoary

a.	1.	White or whitish.
	2.	White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. - Dr. T. Dwight.
	3.	remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
	4.	Moldy; mossy; musty.
	5.	(Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray.
	6.	(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.

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

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