Hoar

Quick meaning: Hoar is a noun meaning A white or greyish-white colour.

Meaning

A white or greyish-white colour.

More Meanings

1. Hoariness; antiquity.
2. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
3. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
4. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
5. (archaic) Figuratively, grey-haired with age.
6. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.

Example Sentences

old trees with trunks all hoar

And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.

But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

Be Thou with me until Old-age, and even to hoar hairs do Thou carrie me. P. Isa. 46.4.

Word Forms

• hoars
• hoaring
• hoared

Synonyms for hoar

Depending on context, synonyms include agedness, ancientness, oldhood, frosty, hoary, rime.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hoary, white-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed, gray-haired, grey-headed.

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