hoary

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat White, whitish, or greyish-white.

   “As hoary frost with spangles doth attire, The mossy braunches of an oke halfe ded,”

2. sıfat White or grey with age.

   “The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.”

3. sıfat Of a pale silvery grey.
4. sıfat Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.
5. sıfat Old or old-fashioned; trite.

   “It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however ran counter to the other one that no germs could live in a foundry—the atmosphere was too foul.”

6. sıfat Remote in time past.

   “The probability of these flattering fictions could no longer be examined, when the hoary antiquity of such traditions had gained them veneration. An adventure of ancient date was in blind after-ages too readily received as truth.”

7. sıfat Moldy; mossy; musty.