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4 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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