white-haired adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: {grey}, {gray}, {grey- haired}, {gray-haired}, {grey-headed}, {gray-headed}, {grizzly}, {hoar}, {hoary}, {white-haired}] 2: favorite; "the fair-haired boy of the literary set" [syn: {blue-eyed(a)}, {fair-haired(a)}, {white-haired(a)}]