hoar

[hoar]

Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

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White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.

Noun
ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

Adjective S.
showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"


a.
White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.

a.
Gray or white with age; hoary.

a.
Musty; moldy; stale.

n.
Hoariness; antiquity.

v. t.
To become moldy or musty.


Hoar

Hoar , a. [OE. hor, har, AS. h'ber; akin to Icel. h'berr, and to OHG. h&emac;r illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei&edh; brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. k&emac;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.
Old trees with trunks all hoar.
3. Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] Shak.

Hoar

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

Hoar

Hoar, v. t. [AS. h'berian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] Shak.

White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.

Hoariness; antiquity.

To become moldy or musty.

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