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hoary, a.|ˈhɔərɪ|
Also 6–7 hory, (6 hoory, horie, heorye).
[A late formation (16th c.) from hoar a. or n. + -y: cf. dusky, haughty, vasty.]
1. a. Of the hair, head, or beard: Grey or white with age.
1530Palsgr. 315/2 Hoory as a man or beestes heare is, chaneu. a1547Surrey Carelesse man in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 26 What will she do, when hory heares are powdred in her hedde? 1611Bible Lev. xix. 32 Thou shalt rise vp before the hoary head. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iv. xix, Veterans..Whose helmets press'd their hoary hair. 1885R. Buchanan Annan Water i, With hoary bushy eyebrows.
b. Having white or grey hair, grey-haired.
1573–80Baret Alv. H 486 To waxe Hoarie, or white headed, incanesco. 1682Dryden Mac Fl. 106 The hoary prince in majesty appeared. 1738Glover Leonidas i. 55 Her sons, her matrons and her hoary sires. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. viii. 186 Men like the hoary sinner..instinctively saw in him the destined enemy of his kind.
c. Ancient; venerable from age, time-honoured.
1609Dekker Gull's Horne-bk. (1812) 25 Venerable father of ancient, and therefore hoary customs. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 238 Hoarie English Antiquities. 1781Cowper Expost. 596 Windsor's hoary towers. 1852Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xviii. 232 A hoary and most remote antiquity. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 1 Born on Pelion height, so legend hoary relateth.
2. Of colour: Grey, greyish white.
1573–80Baret Alv. H 493 A hoarie frost, cana pruina. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 79 Clothed with cold, and hoary wyth frost. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 891 The secrets of the hoarie deep. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 168 With Ethiops hoary Trees and woolly Wood. 1784Cowper Task iii. 830 Winter's hoary wing. 1809Heber Europe 258 The hoary poplars wave. 1878G. Macdonald Phantastes i. 12 Below lay a sea, still as death and hoary in the moon.
†3. Mouldy, musty; corrupt. Obs.
Perh. in some instances confused with hory, filthy.
1530Palsgr. 315/2 Hoory as meate that is kepte to longe, fleury. 1567tr. ælfric's Let. to Bp. Wulsine in Brady Clavis Cal. (1813) I. 280 Some pristes keepe the housell..all the Yere for Syke Men,—But they do greatlye amysse, by cause it waxeth Heorye. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 624 Hoarie, moulded bread. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. Dict., Musty, Mouldy, or Hoary Dung.
4. Bot. and Entom. Covered with short dense white or whitish hairs; canescent.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. vii. §1. 8 Soft and downie, and somewhat hoarie. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. iv. §6. 112 That whose leaves are bigger, and hoary all over. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 725 Whole plant hoary with a dense cottony substance. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 28 Perennial hoary herbs.
b. Hence used to designate species of plants and animals so clothed; often rendering L. canus, incanus, etc.: as hoary alder, hoary creeper, hoary mullein, hoary stock, etc.
1811Shaw Zool. VIII. 261 Hoary Creeper, Certhia canescens..bill stout and black. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 314 The white willow, and the common and hoary alder, form thickets.
c. In names of animals having a hoary appearance (see quots.).
1781T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 398 Hoary M[armot] with the tip of the nose black..hair universally rude and long; that on the back, sides and belly cinereous at the root, black in the middle, whitish at the tip, so that the animal has a hoary appearance. 1829Sir J. Richardson Fauna Bor.-Amer. I. 150 Hoary marmot, with long coarse fur, particularly on the chest and shoulders, where it is hoary. 1832J. Rennie Butterfl. & Moths 183 The Hoary Double Crescent..frequents ash-trees. 1903Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XIX. 539 Marmotta caligata (Eschscholtz). Hoary marmot. 1948W. J. Stokoe Caterp. Brit. Moths I. 151 (heading) The Hoary Footman. 1954O. J. Murie Field Guide to Animal Tracks 136 The hoary marmot has also sought the high mountains. 1959Hall & Kelson Mammals N. Amer. I. 192/1 The hoary bat is solitary and roosts in trees and shrubs.
5. Comb.
a. parasynthetic, as hoary-dated, hoary-feathered, hoary-haired, hoary-headed, hoary-herbaged, hoary-vested, etc.;
b. with another adj., as hoary-pubescent, etc.
1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iv. viii, This hoarie⁓headed letcher, this old goat. 1771Wesley Wks. (1872) V. 61 When he is old and hoary-haired. 1797T. Park Sonn. 8 Classic Eton's hoary-vested towers. 1831Don Gard. Dict. I. xvii, Hoary-pubescent, covered with white down which is pressed to the surface. Ibid., Hoary-villous, covered with white villi. 1847W. E. Steele Field Bot. 53 Leaves hoary-white beneath. 1859Tennyson Enid 295 There musing sat the hoary-headed Earl. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 11 A hoary-dated Patriarch pedigree. |