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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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"Hoary" Quotes from Famous Books

... purple visage turned a sort of ashen hue. Its owner mouthed in speechless rage. He "knew it was the Indian had put Rolf up to it. He'd see to it later," and muttering, blasting, frothing, the hoary-headed sinner went limping off to his ...

— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton

... smoke-blackened stone fireplace, with two large rude andirons and a swinging crane. A skillet and a gridiron stood against the jamb on one side, a hoe for baking hoe cakes and a little wrought-iron trivet were in order on the other. The breakfast fire had burned out; only the great backlog, hoary with gray ashes, lay slumbering at the back of the fireplace. The planter poked the drift of ashes between the andirons with a green oak stick until he saw a live coal shining red in the gray about it. This ...

— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

... poverty showed itself in the few patched and tattered figures that followed the oxen in the interminable furrows shallowly scraping the surface of the lonely levels. The haggard mountain ranges were of stone that seemed blanched with geologic superannuation, and at one place we ran by a wall of hoary rock that drew its line a mile long against the sky, and then broke and fell, and then staggered up again in a succession of titanic bulks. But stupendous as these mountain masses were, they were not so wonderful as those wheat-lands which in ...

— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells

... hues of sunset had faded away, and with the approaching shadows of night the wind rose and played around the stranger's hoary head. ...

— Sister Carmen • M. Corvus

... worded his defense well; but in giving a plausible excuse for the crime of Nov. 10th, he makes a dismal failure. A mob headed by a minister of the gospel, and a hoary-headed deacon, after cutting off every avenue of escape and defense, and after the government had been surrendered to them as a peace offering, wantonly kills and butchers their brethren, is without parallel in a Christian community, and ...

— Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly - A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. • David Bryant Fulton

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