HOAR

hoar|hoary. Hoar, or Hoary, a. gray with age, whitish, mold covered with a white pudescence

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Hoar (?), a. [[OE. hor, har, AS. hār; akin to Icel. hārr, and to OHG. hēr illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Heið brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. kētus light, torch. Cf. Hoary.]] 1. 1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. “Hoar waters.” Spenser.
2. 2. Gray or white with age; hoary.
Whose beard with age is hoar. Coleridge. Old trees with trunks all hoar. Byron. 3. 3. Musty; moldy; stale. Shak.