(verb) : cānĕo, ui, 2, canus
* To be gray or hoary, be white (poet. or in post-Aug. prose); P. a.: cānens, entis, gray, grayish, hoary, white: temporibus geminis canebat sparsa senectus,Verg. A. 5, 416; cf. Tac. G. 31: canens senecta,Verg. A. 10, 192: canet in igne cinis,Ov. A. A. 2, 440: canens gelu,white,id. Tr. 5, 2, 66; Sil. 1, 206; pruina,id. 3, 534: canentia lilia,Ov. M. 12, 411: dum gramina canent,Verg. G. 3, 325; 2, 13: canuerint herbae,Ov. F. 3, 880; Juv. 14, 144; Ov. M. 1, 110 (cf. id. ib. 6, 456; and id. F. 5, 357); Sil. 4, 362.

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