Hoary
WordNet
adjective
(1) Covered with fine whitish hairs or down
(2) Ancient
"Hoary jokes"
(3) Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
"Whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge
"Nodded his hoary head"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- white or gray with age
- the old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence
- of a pale silvery gray.
- covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent
- remote in time past
- moldy; mossy; musty
Quotations
- 1787, John Rippon, "How Firm a Foundation",
- And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,
- Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne.