5 definitions
for hoar
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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 :
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 :
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 :
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 :
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
