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hoar
CIDE DICTIONARY
hoar, a. [OE. hor, har, AS. hār; akin to Icel. hārr, and to OHG. h illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. k light, torch. Cf. Hoary.].
- White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Gray or white with age; hoary. [1913 Webster]"Whose beard with age is hoar." [1913 Webster]"Old trees with trunks all hoar." [1913 Webster]
- Musty; moldy; stale. Shak. [1913 Webster]
hoar, n.
Hoariness; antiquity. [1913 Webster]
"Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages." [1913 Webster]
hoar, v. t. [AS. hārian to grow gray.].
To become moldy or musty. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hoar, adj. & n. literary
--adj.
1 grey-haired with age.
2 greyish-white.
3 (of a thing) grey with age.
--n.
1 = hoar-frost.
2 hoariness.
--adj.
1 grey-haired with age.
2 greyish-white.
3 (of a thing) grey with age.
--n.
1 = hoar-frost.
2 hoariness.
Idiom
hoar-frost frozen water vapour deposited in clear still weather on vegetation etc.
Etymology
OE har f. Gmc
THESAURUS
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 oldROGET THESAURUS
hoar
Age
N age, oldness, old age, advanced age, golden years, senility, senescence, years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, second childishness, dotage, vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf, threescore years and ten, green old age, ripe age, longevity, time of life, seniority, eldership, elders, firstling, doyen, father, primogeniture, geriatrics, nostology, aged, old, elderly, geriatric, senile, matronly, anile, in years, ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, gray, gray-headed, hoar, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated, advanced in life, advanced in years, stricken in years, wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot, having one foot in the grave, doting, like the last of pea time, older, elder, eldest, senior, firstborn, turned of, years old, of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah, ancestral, patriarchal, gerontic, give me a staff of honor for my age, bis pueri senes, peu de gens savent elre vieux, plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus, old age is creeping on apace, slow-consuming age, the hoary head is a crown of glory, the silver livery of advised age, to grow old gracefully, to vanish in the chinks that Time has made.Whiteness
N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.For further exploring for "hoar" in Webster Dictionary Online
