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(), 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. (Zol.) Of a pale silvery gray. 6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zol.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white. スポンサード リンク
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