Hoar
adj, name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A white or greyish-white colour.
- 2 ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) wordnet
- 3 Hoariness; antiquity.
"His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages."
- 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."
- 1 Of a white or greyish-white colour. not-comparable
"hoar waters"
- 2 Hoarily bearded. not-comparable, poetic
"And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe."
- 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 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."
- 1 showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair wordnet
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"Senator Hoar spoke strongly against the treaty."
Etymology
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”).
* 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.