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   Hoary , a.
   White or whitish. “The hoary willows.”
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   White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
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   Reverence the hoary head.
   Dr. T. Dwight.
   
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    Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
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   Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.]
   Knolles.
   
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   (Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray.
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   (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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