English Dictionary

hoar

/hɔː/

adj

Of a white or greyish-white colour. / (poetic) Hoarily bearded. / (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale. / (archaic) Figuratively, grey-haired with age.

The hoar frost covered the trees, turning them into a winter wonderland.

意味（1）

Of a white or greyish-white colour.

hoar waters

意味（2）

(poetic) Hoarily bearded.

And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream

And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.

But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

意味（4）

(archaic) Figuratively, grey-haired with age.

The great popularity of the Stuarts—certainly more allied to personal causes than we can at present calculate—is a curious fact. It was not one of those feelings drawn from hoar antiquity, when habit has become religion.