hoary
hoary is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.
- 2.Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
- 3.Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.
- 4.(Zoöl.) Of a pale silvery gray.
- 5.(Bot.) 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alabaster
- albata
- albification
- argent
- argentine
- barium
- blanc
- blanch
- bleach
- blond
- candid
- canescent
- carbonate
- ceruse
- chalk
- chalky
- creamy
- cretaceous
- driven
- eburin
- etiolate
- etiolation
- fair
- high
- hoar
- ivory
- lactescence
- lactescent
- lead
- light
- like
- lily
- metal
- milk
- niveous
- oxide
- paper
- pearl
- pearly
- render
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is hoary.
- What is white or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight called?
- What is hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity called?
- What is 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 called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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