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Hoar

//hɔː// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a white or greyish-white colour. not-comparable

    "hoar waters"

  2. 2
    Hoarily bearded. not-comparable, poetic

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

  3. 3
    Musty; mouldy; stale. not-comparable, obsolete

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

  4. 4
    Figuratively, grey-haired with age. archaic, not-comparable

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A white or greyish-white colour.
  2. 2
    ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) wordnet
  3. 3
    Hoariness; antiquity.

    "His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages."

Verb
  1. 1
    To become mouldy or musty. intransitive, obsolete

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

Etymology 4

* As an English surname, from the adjective hoar (“greyish white”). * Also as an English surname, from Ore in Sussex, or its source Old English ōra (“edge, brink”). Compare Middle English Hore.

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