'Hoar' definitions:
Definition of 'hoar'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
noun
Definition of 'Hoar'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Hoar'
From: GCIDE
- Hoar \Hoar\, n. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hoar'
From: GCIDE
- Hoar \Hoar\, v. t. [AS. h[=a]rian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hoar'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advanced,
- advanced in life,
- advanced in years,
- aged,
- along in years,
- ancient,
- argent,
- argentine,
- black frost,
- canescent,
- chalky,
- cretaceous,
- elderly,
- fleecy-white,
- frost,
- frost line,
- frost smoke,
- frosted,
- frosty,
- gray,
- gray with age,
- gray-haired,
- gray-headed,
- grizzled,
- grizzly,
- grown old,
- hoarfrost,
- hoary,
- Jack Frost,
- killing frost,
- lactescent,
- lily-white,
- marble,
- marmoreal,
- milky,
- niveous,
- old,
- old as Methuselah,
- patriarchal,
- platinum,
- pure white,
- rime,
- rime frost,
- senectuous,
- sharp frost,
- silver,
- silvered,
- silvery,
- snow-white,
- snowy,
- swan-white,
- venerable,
- white,
- white as snow,
- white frost,
- white with age,
- white-bearded,
- white-crowned,
- white-haired,
- wrinkled,
- wrinkly,
- years old