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hoar·y
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Audio Help [hawr-ee, hohr-ee] Pronunciation Key –adjective, hoar·i·er, hoar·i·est.
| 1. | gray or white with age: an old dog with a hoary muzzle. |
| 2. | ancient or venerable: hoary myths. |
| 3. | tedious from familiarity; stale: Please don't tell that hoary joke at dinner again tonight. |
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adj. hoar·i·er, hoar·i·est
hoar'i·ly adv., hoar'i·ness n. |
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hoary
1520, "grey or white with age" (of hair), 1609 as "venerable, ancient." See hoar.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| hoary | |
adjective | |
| 1. | showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" |
| 2. | ancient; "hoary jokes" |
| 3. | covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent] |
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Hoary
Hoar\, a. [OE. hor, har, AS. h[=a]r; akin to Icel. h[=a]rr, and to OHG. h[=e]r illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei[eth] brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. k[=e]tus light, torch. Cf. Hoary.]1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." --Spenser. 2. Gray or white with age; hoary. Whose beard with age is hoar. --Coleridge. Old trees with trunks all hoar. --Byron. 3. Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] --Shak.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
hoary
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