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  1. 1. a. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Gray or white with age; hoary. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Musty; moldy; stale. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. Hoariness; antiquity. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To become moldy or musty. Source: opted
  6. 6. adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair Source: wordnet
  7. 7. n. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) Source: wordnet
  8. 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. Source: webster
  9. 9. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke. Source: adambom
  10. 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 Source: ecdict

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