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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



... the queen, And ruined is the palace of our state; But happy loves flit round the mast, and keen The shrill winds sings the silken cords between. Heroes are we, with wearied hearts and sore, Whose flower is faded and whose locks are hoar. Haste, ye light skiffs, where myrtle thickets smile Love's panthers sleep 'mid roses, as of yore: "It may be we shall touch ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner
... commonly Sunk to the debth of 4 or 5 feet in which Case the eve of the house comes nearly to the Surface of the earth. in the Center of each room a Space of from 6 by 8 feet is Sunk about 12 inches lower than the Hoar haveing its Sides Secured by four thick boards or Squar pieces of timber, in this Space they make their fire, their fuel being generally dry pine Split Small which they perform with a peice of an Elks horn Sharpened at one end ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... desert of the Campagna. But in the distance to which the olive forests stretched they lost this effect of tricksy familiarity. They looked like a gray sea against the horizon; more fantastically yet, they seemed a vast hoar silence, ...
— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells
... sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... at seven o'clock Monday morning, April 4th, the hoar- frost lying white on the deck of the little steamer. The cabin was black with smoke that would not consent to go in the way it should go, so one had to be content with the chill morning, the hoar frost ...
— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall


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