Hoar — Defs

01 a. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.

1.
White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
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.]

02 n. Hoariness; antiquity.

1.
Hoariness; antiquity.[R.]
“Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.” — Burke.

03 v. t. To become moldy or musty.