#130. Veteran.-- N. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard &c. 501.
preadamite[obs], Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers &c. (paternity) 166.
Phr. "superfluous lags the veteran on the stage" [Johnson].