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

See Hoarding, 2. Smart.

One who hoards.

ng a house and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.] Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic.

Moldy; musty. [Obs.] Granmer.

ite 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.

voice 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.

A prop. See 3d Shore.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, sulphur and arsenic; -- said of an acid which is the same as arsenic acid with the substitution of sulphur for oxygen.

To take or steal from a hoard; to pilfer. Milton.

To hoard up. [Obs.] Shak.

s after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game. The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed. Dryden.