hoar

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see also: Hoar

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Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: hô, IPA: /hɔː/
• (America) enPR: hôr, IPA: /hɔɹ/
• (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: hōr, IPA: /ho(ː)ɹ/
• (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /hoə/

Noun

hoar

1. A white or greyish-white colour.

    

2. Hoariness; antiquity.

Synonyms

• (hoariness) agedness, ancientness, oldhood; see also Thesaurus:oldness

Translations

• French: blanc-gris
• Portuguese: branco gelo

Adjective

hoar (not comparable)

1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.

   • hoar waters

   • old trees with trunks all hoar

2. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.

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

   • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie

     This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,

     Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,

     Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,

     Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

3. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 134:

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

Related terms

• haar
• horehound

Verb

hoar (hoars, present participle hoaring; past and past participle hoared)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 136:

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

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Hoar

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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