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Definition of 'hoar'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A white or greyish-white colour.
- (BDCADC)
Hoariness; antiquity.
* Burke
- Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Adjective
( -)
Of a white or greyish-white colour.
* Spenser
- hoar waters
(poetic) Hoarily bearded.
* 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
- This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
- Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
- Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
- Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms.
* Byron
- old trees with trunks all hoar
(obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
Derived terms
* hoarfrost
* hoary
* hoared
Related terms
* haar
* horehound
See also
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Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
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