Hoary Definition

hoary
adjective
  1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
  2. ancient; "hoary jokes"
  3. covered with fine whitish hairs or down

Words that rhyme with hoary

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