Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hoar"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hoar \Hoar\, n.
Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]
Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
--Burke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hoar \Hoar\, v. t. [AS. h[=a]rian to grow gray.]
To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}, {hoary},
{white-haired}]
n : ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects
outside) [syn: {frost}, {hoarfrost}, {rime}]
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