01 a. White or whitish.
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White or whitish.
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White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.“Reverence the hoary head.” — Dr. T. Dwight.
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remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
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Moldy; mossy; musty.[Obs.]
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Of a pale silvery gray.(Zool.)
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Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.(Bot.)
Phrases & compounds
Hoary bat —
an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.