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grey-haired, a.
(Stress variable.)
Having grey hair; hence, old.
13..Evang. Nicod. 1551 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LIII. 420 Two grayhared men..with þam mett. a1400Pistill Susan 339 Þin hed is grei hored. 14..Sir Beues 3322 (MS. M.) That ye thare not drede than Of Sabere, that grey-herud man. c1440Promp. Parv. 209/2 Grey heryd, canus. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 37 If gray-hair'd Proteus songs the truth not miss. a1706Earl of Dorset Fr. Song paraphr. 1 In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms. 1801Southey Thalaba viii. xxxii, The grey-hair'd Sorceress stampt the ground. 1847G. R. Gleig Waterloo xxix. (ed. 2) 233 Many..were grey-haired men and covered with the scars of old wounds.
b. fig. of things.
1611W. Barksted Hiren xx. A vj. Alas faire Christian Saint..So yong, and full of gray hair'd purity. 1622H. Sydenham Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637) 8 A gray-hair'd custom of most times and places. |