hoar

Noun · Adjective

Synonyms: frost hoarfrost rime grey gray grey-haired gray-haired grey-headed gray-headed grizzly hoary white-haired

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)Synonyms: frost hoarfrost rime

Adjective (1)

showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair“whose beard with age is hoar — Coleridge”“nodded his hoary head”Synonyms: grey gray grey-haired gray-haired grey-headed gray-headed grizzly hoary white-haired

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Hoar \Hoar\, v. t. [AS. h[=a]rian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Hoar \Hoar\, a. [OE. hor, har, AS. h[=a]r; akin to Icel. h[=a]rr, and to OHG. h[=e]r illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei[eth] brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. k[=e]tus light, torch. Cf. Hoary.]

1.White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

2.Gray or white with age; hoary. [1913 Webster]

Whose beard with age is hoar.— Coleridge.[1913 Webster]

Old trees with trunks all hoar.— Byron.[1913 Webster]

3.Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Hoar \Hoar\, n. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. --Burke. [1913 Webster]