showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
<adj.all> whose beard with age is hoar nodded his hoary head
ancient
<adj.all> hoary jokes
covered with fine whitish hairs or down
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Hoary \Hoar"y\, a. 1. White or whitish. ``The hoary willows.'' --Addison.
2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
Reverence the hoary head. --Dr. T. Dwight.
3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] --Knolles.
5. (Zo["o]l.) Of a pale silvery gray.
6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
{Hoary bat} (Zo["o]l.), an American bat ({Atalapha cinerea}), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
In resurrecting the hoary 1926 law, Judge Parker did not specify what tasks the workers from now-canceled routes might do for Eastern and the public.
There also is Mr. Milner's dependence on the hoary device of the telephone.
Maybe, just maybe, the hoary notion that all rural America needs to make it sing again is $5-a-bushel wheat, $10 soybeans and comparable prices for other crops and livestock is fading.
The names of the defendants in this hoary lawsuit are familiar to those following the unfolding scandal of BCCI Holdings (Luxembourg) S.A., including Agha Hasan Abedi, the global bank's founder.