Usually means: Old and gray with age.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word hoary:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hoary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hoary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hoary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hoary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hoary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hoary, hoary: Wordnik
  7. hoary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hoary: Wiktionary
  9. hoary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hoary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hoary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hoary, hoary: Dictionary.com
  13. hoary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hoary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hoary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hoary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hoary: Rhymezone
  18. Hoary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hoary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hoary: Free Dictionary
  21. hoary: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. hoary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hoary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hoary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hoary: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Hoary: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  White, whitish, or greyish-white.
adjective:  White or grey with age.
adjective:  (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
adjective:  (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.
adjective:  (figurative) Old or old-fashioned; trite.
adjective:  (obsolete) Remote in time past.
adjective:  (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.

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