adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or
white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
"nodded his hoary head" [syn: gray, grey, gray-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed, hoar, white-haired]
2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: rusty]
3: (biology) covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent]