GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Hoar , a. [OE. hor, har, AS. hār; akin to Icel. hārr, and to OHG. hēr illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Heið brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. kētus light, torch. Cf. Hoary.]
   White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. “Hoar waters.” 
   Spenser.
   
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   Gray or white with age; hoary.
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   Whose beard with age is hoar.
   Coleridge.
   
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   Old trees with trunks all hoar.
   Byron.
   
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   Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   Hoar, n. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]
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   Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
   Burke.
   
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   Hoar, v. t. [AS. hārian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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