Hoar

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hoar \Hoar\, n.
     Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]
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           Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
                                                    --Burke.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hoar \Hoar\, v. t. [AS. h[=a]rian to grow gray.]
     To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hoar \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.
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     2. Gray or white with age; hoary.
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              Whose beard with age is hoar.         --Coleridge.
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              Old trees with trunks all hoar.       --Byron.
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     3. Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hoar
       adj : showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or
             white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
             "nodded his hoary head" [syn: {gray}, {grey}, {gray-haired},
              {grey-haired}, {gray-headed}, {grey-headed}, {grizzly},
              {hoary}, {white-haired}]
       n : ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects
           outside) [syn: {frost}, {hoarfrost}, {rime}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoar":
     Jack Frost, 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,
     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