Hoar (?), a. [OE. hor, har, AS. har; akin to Icel. harr, and to OHG. h&emac;r illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei&edh; brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. k&emac;tus light, torch. Cf. Hoary.]
1.
White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
"
Hoar waters."
Spenser.
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.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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Hoar, n.
Hoariness; antiquity.
[R.]
Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Burke.
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Hoar, v. t. [AS. harian to grow gray.]
To become moldy or musty.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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