hoar
noun
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Pronunciation: /hɔː/ / /hoɹ/ / /ho(ː)ɹ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).
- Of a white or greyish-white colour.
“So forth they rowèd; and that ferryman / With his stiff oars did brush the sea so strong, / That the hoar waters from his frigate ran, / And the light bubbles danced all along. / Whiles the salt brine out of the billows sprong.”
“old trees with trunks all hoar”
- Hoarily bearded.
“And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.”
“This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.”
- Musty; mouldy; stale.
“But a hare that is hoar Is too much for a score When it hoars ere it be spent.”
- Figuratively, grey or grey-haired with age; ancient, venerable.
“Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.”
“Be Thou with me until Old-age, and even to hoar hairs do Thou carrie me. P. Isa. 46.4.”
name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the adjective hoar (“greyish white”). * Also as an English surname, from Ore in Sussex, or its source Old English ōra (“edge, brink”). Compare Middle English Hore.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).
- A white or greyish-white colour.
- Hoariness; antiquity.
“His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).
- To become mouldy or musty.
“But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.”