What does "hoar" mean?
Hoar: Gray or white with age; hoary. Whose beard with age is hoar. Coleridge. Old trees with trunks all hoar. Byron.
Additional senses
- 2.Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] Shak.
- 3.Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke.
- 4.To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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