Hoar″y (?), a. 1. White or whitish. “The hoary willows.” Addison.
2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.
3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4. Moldy; mossy; musty. Knolles.
5. (Zoöl.) Of a pale silvery gray.
6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
Hoary bat(Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.