About The Word Hoar
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Hoar
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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 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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