Meaning of HOAR
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | frost, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, hoarfrost, hoary, old, rime, white-haired |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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