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er on the harp; a minstrel. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Longfellow.

ain. Hold not thy peace, and be not still. Ps. lxxxiii. 1. Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

Hoar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc. [Written also hoarhound.] Fetid horehound, or Black horehound, a disagreeable plant resembling horehound (Ballota nigra). -- Water horehound, a species of the genus Lycopus, resembling mint, but not aromatic.

Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice. G. Eliot.

Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.

To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.

Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.

Hoary with white pubescence.

To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard. [Obs.] Shak.

herry. Shak. Like master, like man. Old Prov. He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound.

n; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard. As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er. Goldsmith.

en of the mist, a race of dwarfs or demonic beings, the original possessors of the famous hoard and ring won by Siegfrid; also, the Burgundian kings in the Nibelungenlied.

A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively. The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde.

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.

To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad u…

The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise. Chaucer.

Hoarse; raucous [R.] Lamb.

Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.