English Dictionary

hoary

/hɔː.ɹi/

adj

White, whitish, or greyish-white. / White or grey with age. / (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey. / (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs. / (figuratively) Old or old-fashioned; trite.

The hoary snow covered the landscape.

意味（1）

White, whitish, or greyish-white.

As hoary frost with spangles doth attire,

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

意味（2）

White or grey with age.

The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.

意味（3）

(zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.

意味（4）

(botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.

意味（5）

(figuratively) Old or old-fashioned; trite.

In its God-like prime, The Simpsons attacked well-worn satirical fodder from unexpected angles, finding fresh laughs in the hoariest of subjects.

意味（6）

(obsolete) 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.

意味（7）

(obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.

By chance there was at that time brought out of the citie into the campe verie course, hoarie, moulded bread, which some of the souldiours hauing bought, and thrusting it vpon the points of their speares, shewed it vnto their fellowes in great choller, railing against king Ferdinand, which in his owne kingdome in the beginning of the warre had made no better prouision, but with such corrupt and pestilent bread to feed them being strangers, which were onely for his defence and quarrell to aduenture their liues.