incanesco

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

in-cānesco, canŭi, 3,

v. inch. n. , to become white , to turn gray or hoary (poet.): tortaque remigio spumis incanuit unda, Cat. 63, 13: ornusque incanuit albo Flore piri, Verg. G. 2, 71: gelu magnoque incanuit imbre Caucasus, Val. Fl. 6, 611: cum pigra incanuit aetas, Sil. 3, 328.

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