I.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.
cānĕo , ui, 2, v. n. canus,