Hoar
[hɒ:]
Definition
(a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
(a.) Gray or white with age; hoary.
(a.) Musty; moldy; stale.
(n.) Hoariness; antiquity.
(v. t.) To become moldy or musty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Hoary, white, gray.
Checker: Willa
Definition
adj. white or grayish-white esp. with age or frost: mouldy.—n. hoariness: age.—v.i. (Shak.) to become mouldy.—n. Hoar′-frost white frost: the white particles formed by the freezing of dew.—adjs. Hoar′-head′ed Hoar′y white or gray with age: (bot.) covered with short dense whitish hairs.—adv. Hoar′ily.—ns. Hoar′iness; Hoar′-stone an ancient boundary stone.
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Examples
- The cold hoar frost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Paulina, that gentle hoar-frost of yours, surrounding so much pure, fine flame, is a priceless privilege of nature. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The distance between us shrank, and the light hoar-frost thawed insensibly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her boots being thinner than those of the young men, the hoar had damped her feet and made them cold. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Editor: Samantha