Thesaurus: hoar

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1. a. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
2. a. Gray or white with age; hoary.
3. a. Musty; moldy; stale.
4. n. Hoariness; antiquity.
5. v. t. To become moldy or musty.
6. adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
7. n. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
8. 1. White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." Spenser. 2. Gray or white with age; hoary. Whose beard with age is hoar. Coleridge. Old trees with trunks all hoar. Byron. 3. Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] Shak. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke. To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] Shak.
9. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke.
10. n:100 n ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) s showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair