Hoary
Hoary , adjective
1.
White or whitish.
The hoary willows.
2.
White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
Reverence the hoary head.
3.
remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4.
Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obsolete] — Knolles
5.
(Zoology) Of a pale silvery gray.
6.
(Botany) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
Collocations (1)
Hoary bat (Zoology) , an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.