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Webster 1913 Edition

Hoar

Hoar

,
Adj.
[OE.
hor
,
har
, AS.
hār
; akin to Icel.
hārr
, and to OHG.
hēr
illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel.
Heið
brightness of the sky, Goth.
hais
torch, Skr.
kētus
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

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

Hoar

,
Verb.
T.
[AS.
hārian
to grow gray.]
To become moldy or musty.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hoar

HOAR

, a.
1.
White; as hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
2.
Gray; white with age; hoary; as a matron grave and hoar.

HOAR

,
Noun.
Hoariness; antiquity.

HOAR

,
Verb.
I.
To become moldy or musty. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

hoar

hoar

English

Noun

hoar ‎(plural hoars)

  1. A white or greyish-white colour.
    hoar colour:    
  2. Hoariness; antiquity.
    • Burke
      Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

Translations

Adjective

hoar ‎(not comparable)

  1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
    • Spenser
      hoar waters
  2. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
    • 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
      This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
      Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
      Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
      Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
    • Byron
      old trees with trunks all hoar
  3. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.

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See also

  • Appendix:Colors

Verb

hoar ‎(third-person singular simple present hoars, present participle hoaring, simple past and past participle hoared)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.

Anagrams

Swedish

Noun

hoar

  1. indefinite plural of ho

Verb

hoar

  1. present tense of hoa.

Etymology

From Middle English hore, from Old English hār ‎(“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz ‎(“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēy(w)-, *ḱyē(w)- ‎(“grey”). Cognate with German hehr ‎(“noble, sublime”) and Herr ‎(“sir, gentleman”).

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