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Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone. "His voice slightly raucous." Aytoun. -- Rau"cous*ly, adv.

ants." Chaucer. The rich [person] hath many friends. Prov. xiv. 20. As a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher. Milton.

White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey.

To make rotten. [Obs.] Well bet is rotten apple out of hoard, Than that it roty all the remenant. Chaucer.

Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers. Pope.

One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging. [Written also shoar.]

A shriek; shrieking. [Obs] Spenser. "All hoarse for shright." Chaucer.

To make hoary, or white, like silver. His head was silvered o'er with age. Gay.

To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep.

Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden.

deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring. Burning, stertorous breath that hurt her cheek. Mrs. Browning. The day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room, before his stertorous breathing lulls. Dickens.

e common stock. See Stock, n., 18. -- Stock gold, gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard. -- Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. Simmonds. -- Stock list, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices. -- Stock lock, a lock…

Accumulated; hoarded. Bacon.

Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell.

Unsteadiness. [Obs.] For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness. Chaucer.

xandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. Milton. The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile. Prescott.

To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

To hoard. [Obs.] Donne.

ils; profit; return; proceeds. [Obs.] My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation. Chapman.