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Look up: Hoar

  1. hoar
    thin ice crystals deposited on surface cooled by radiation; often partly composed of drops of dew frozen after deposition and partly formed directly from water vapour at temperature below freezing point; deposit of ice having a crystalline appearance, produced in a manner similar to dew but at a tem...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  2. Hoar
    Hoar adjective [ Middle English hor , har , Anglo-Saxon hār ; akin to Icelandic hārr , and to Old High German hēr illustrious, magnificent; confer Icelandic Heið brightness of the sky, Got...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/50

  3. Hoar
    Hoar noun Hoariness; antiquity. [ R.] « Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.» Burke.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/50

  4. Hoar
    Hoar transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon hārian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [ Obsolete] Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/50

  5. hoar
    1. White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. 'Hoar waters.' ... 2. Gray or white with age; hoary. 'Whose beard with age is hoar.' (Coleridge) 'Old trees with trunks all hoar.' (Byron) ... 3. Musty; moldy; stale. ... Origin: OE. Hor, har, AS. Har; akin to Icel. Harr, and to OHG. Her illus...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. Hoar
    • (a.) Gray or white with age; hoary. • (a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. • (v. t.) To become moldy or musty. • (n.) Hoariness; antiquity. • (a.) Musty; moldy; stale.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

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