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Hoar   /hɔr/   Listen
verb
Hoar  v. t.  To become moldy or musty. (Obs.)



noun
Hoar  n.  Hoariness; antiquity. (R.) "Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages."



adjective
Hoar  adj.  
1.
White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters."
2.
Gray or white with age; hoary. "Whose beard with age is hoar." "Old trees with trunks all hoar."
3.
Musty; moldy; stale. (Obs.)






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"Hoar" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hoar, John Whithead, Abraham Garfield, Benjamin Munroe, Isaac Parks, William Hosmer, John Adams, Gregory Stone, all of Lincoln, in the county of Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, all of lawful age, do testify and say that, on ...
— The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 - With Numerous Illustrative Notes • Abraham Tomlinson

... is this? What villain dares, At this dread hoar, with feet and voice profane, Disturb ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

... which the streams had made, by the side and over the brows of hoar hills and mountains, across the stumpy, rocky, forested, and bepastured country, we at length crossed on prostrate trees over the Amonoosuck, and breathed the free air of Unappropriated Land. Thus, in fair days ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... the slanderous cuckoo, nor The boding raven, nor chough hoar, Nor chattering pye, May on our bride-house perch or sing, Or with them any discord ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... still blind, deaf and dumb with misery, ran, rather than walked, along the road which leads to Kingsdene. The day was lovely, with little faint wafts of spring in the air; the sky was pale blue and cloudless; there was a slight hoar frost on the grass. Priscilla chose to walk on it, rather than on the dusty road; it ...
— A Sweet Girl Graduate • Mrs. L.T. Meade


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