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Hoar Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Hoar? [n] ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [adj] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Hoar: frost \| gray \| gray-haired \| gray-headed \| grey \| grey-haired \| grey-headed \| hoarfrost \| hoary \| old \| rime \| white-haired Related Terms \| Find terms related to Hoar: advanced \| advanced in life \| advanced in years \| aged \| along in years \| ancient \| argent \| argentine \| black frost \| canescent \| chalky \| cretaceous \| elderly \| fleecy-white \| frost \| frost line \| frost smoke \| frosted \| frosty \| gray \| gray with age \| gray-haired \| gray-headed \| grizzled \| grizzly \| grown old \| hoarfrost \| hoary \| Jack Frost \| killing frost \| lactescent \| lily-white \| marble \| marmoreal \| milky \| niveous \| old \| old as Methuselah \| patriarchal \| platinum \| pure white \| rime \| rime frost \| senectuous \| sharp frost \| silver \| silvered \| silvery \| snow-white \| snowy \| swan-white \| venerable \| white \| white as snow \| white frost \| white with age \| white-bearded \| white-crowned \| white-haired \| wrinkled \| wrinkly \| years old See Also \| ice \| water ice Hoar In Webster's Dictionary \Hoar\, a. [OE. hor, har, AS. h[=a]r; akin to Icel. h[=a]rr, and to OHG. h[=e]r illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei[eth] brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. k[=e]tus light, torch. Cf. {Hoary}.] 1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. ``Hoar waters.'' --Spenser. 2. Gray or white with age; hoary. Whose beard with age is hoar. --Coleridge. Old trees with trunks all hoar. --Byron. 3. Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] --Shak. \Hoar\, n. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. --Burke. \Hoar\, v. t. [AS. h[=a]rian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] --Shak.

Hoar Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hoar?

[n] ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
[adj] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"

See Also | ice | water ice

Hoar In Webster's Dictionary

\Hoar\, a. [OE. hor, har, AS. h[=a]r; akin to Icel.
h[=a]rr, and to OHG. h[=e]r illustrious, magnificent; cf.
Icel. Hei[eth] brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr.
k[=e]tus light, torch. Cf. {Hoary}.]
1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
   ``Hoar waters.'' --Spenser.

2. Gray or white with age; hoary.

         Whose beard with age is hoar.         --Coleridge.

         Old trees with trunks all hoar.       --Byron.

3. Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] --Shak.


\Hoar\, n.
Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]

      Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
                                               --Burke.


\Hoar\, v. t. [AS. h[=a]rian to grow gray.]
To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] --Shak.

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