HOAR

a. n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." Spenser.

2.
a.

Gray or white with age; hoary. Whose beard with age is hoar. Coleridge. Old trees with trunks all hoar. Byron.

3.
a.

Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] Shak.

4.
n.

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

5.
v.

To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] Shak.


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