hoary

hoary has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• a.. White or whitish.
• a.. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
• a.. remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
• a.. Moldy; mossy; musty.
• a.. Of a pale silvery gray.
• a.. Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
• a.. covered with fine whitish hairs or down
• a.. ancient; "hoary jokes"
• a.. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"