hoary   (Sound)

The adj hoary has 3 senses

• grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired -- (showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head")


• hoary, rusty -- (ancient; "hoary jokes")


• canescent, hoary -- (covered with fine whitish hairs or down)