hoar [
hɒ:]
a. 白的, 灰色的, 发白的
n. 灰白, 灰白色, 白霜
hoar[ noun ]- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
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[ adj ]- showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
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whose beard with age is hoar
nodded his hoary head
Hoar \Hoar\, n.
Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]
Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
--Burke.
Hoar \Hoar\, v. t. [AS. h[=a]rian to grow gray.]
To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] --Shak.
Hoar \Hoar\, a. [OE. hor, har, AS. h[=a]r; akin to Icel.
h[=a]rr, and to OHG. h[=e]r illustrious, magnificent; cf.
Icel. Hei[eth] brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr.
k[=e]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.