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   Hoary (?), a.
   1. White or whitish. “The hoary willows.”  Addison.
   
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   2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, “hoary hairs”.
   
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   Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.
   
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   3. Hence, remote in time past; as, “hoary antiquity”.
   
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   4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.]  Knolles.
   
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   5. (Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray.
   
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   6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
   
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   Hoary bat (Zool.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
   
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