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A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.

A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.

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

See Hoarding, 2. Smart.

One who hoards.

A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.] Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic.

Moldy; musty. [Obs.] Granmer.

te particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. [Written also horefrost. See Hoar, a.] He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

Same as Horehound.

The state of being hoary. Dryden.

oice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven. The hoarse resounding shore. Dryden.

With a harsh, grating sound or voice.

To make hoarse. I shall be obliged to hoarsen my voice. Richardson.

Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

A stone designating the Halliwell.

White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison.

An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey.

Of or pertaining to a hypoarion.

An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes. Owen.

Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.