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hoary 音標拼音: [h'ɔri] a. 灰白的 灰白的 hoary adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; " whose beard with age is hoar"- Coleridge; " nodded his hoary head" [ synonym: { grey}, { gray}, { grey- haired}, { gray- haired}, { grey- headed}, { gray- headed}, { grizzly}, { hoar}, { hoary}, { white- haired}] 2: ancient; " hoary jokes" [ synonym: { hoary}, { rusty}] 3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [ synonym: { canescent}, { hoary}] Hoary \ Hoar" y\, a. 1. White or whitish. " The hoary willows." -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. [ 1913 Webster] Reverence the hoary head. -- Dr. T. Dwight. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [ Obs.] -- Knolles. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. [ 1913 Webster] { Hoary bat} ( Zool.), an American bat ({ Atalapha cinerea}), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white. [ 1913 Webster] 109 Moby Thesaurus words for " hoary": acknowledged, admitted, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age- old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antique, argent, argentine, auld, canescent, chalky, conventional, cretaceous, customary, dateless, elderly, established, fixed, fleecy- white, folk, frost- beaded, frost- chequered, frost- covered, frost- fettered, frost- rent, frostbound, frosted, frostlike, frosty, frosty- faced, gray, gray with age, gray- haired, gray- headed, grizzled, grizzly, grown old, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoar, hoar- frosted, hoaryheaded, immemorial, inveterate, lactescent, legendary, lily- white, long- established, long- standing, marble, marmoreal, milky, mythological, niveous, of long standing, of old, of the folk, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old- time, olden, oral, patriarchal, platinum, prescriptive, pure white, received, recognized, rime- frosted, rimed, rooted, senectuous, silver, silver- bearded, silver- headed, silvered, silvery, snow- white, snowy, swan- white, time- honored, timeless, timeworn, traditional, tried and true, true- blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, white, white as snow, white with age, white- bearded, white- crowned, white- haired, worshipful, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old
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