1. (a.) White or whitish.

2. (a.) White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.

3. (a.) remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

4. (a.) Moldy; mossy; musty.

5. (a.) of a pale silvery gray.

6. (a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.